INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES

2020-7-23 Submitted
2020-9-10 With Editor
2020-12-24 Under Review
2021-1-27 Under Review
2021-5-4 Required Reviews Complete
2021-5-9 Decision in process
2021-6-19 Revise
2021-7-9 Revision being processed
2021-7-9 With Editor
2021-7-9 Accept

After more than a year of waiting, with several reminders in between, I am very happy to have been accepted by the best journal in rock mechanics. It has an impact factor of 7.1, but the review process is extremely slow. It is normal for "with editor" to take more than three months, and it is also very normal for the review process to exceed a year. I will never dare to submit again, haha. It is the number one journal in geology and mining. I hope it will be included in the top tier of the Chinese Academy of Sciences this year.

Paper on the mechanism of deep rock burst, submitted in December 2020, revised in July 2021, and accepted in October 2021. It took exactly 10 months from submission to acceptance, as long as pregnancy and childbirth. IJRMMS, ranked number 1 in the field of rock mechanics and mining, now has a high impact factor of 7.1, which means the review process is stricter and slower, but it is acceptable. During this period, I logged in every day to check if there were any updates on the manuscript status. There were many anxious moments, but when I received the acceptance notification, all the efforts and waiting were worth it.