Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

This journal took a total of three submissions, lasting over five months, and has now been accepted. The first submission was directly rejected, with the editor stating that the article lacked originality. The second submission included an additional experimental result (originally intended for another article), but it was still rejected, citing language issues. I worked with my advisor to make gradual revisions for nearly a month. After the third submission, the formal review process took almost a month, repeatedly requiring the upload of original data, but it was finally approved. Then, I had to wait for over half a month before an associate editor was assigned. The associate editor was quite responsible and found a total of five reviewers, but three of them withdrew, leaving only two who provided major revisions. After two rounds of revisions, the article was finally accepted. I feel that the reviewers' comments were very objective and they had a good level of expertise.

In conclusion, this journal was not as quick as expected. Although it took up five months of my time, the statistics only account for two months.

This journal is incredibly fast, with revisions returned within 15 days after submission. There were two sets of revisions suggested, but no additional experiments were required. I was given 10 days to make the revisions, and they were completed by the 9th day. The paper was accepted on the 2nd day. The entire process, from submission to acceptance, took 25 days, making it the quickest submission I have ever experienced. Overall, the feedback was fair and the efficiency was high. Prior to submitting to this journal, the manuscript had been rejected by several top-tier journals. The language and logical structure of the article had already been refined through multiple iterations, so there were no issues in that regard.