MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTING

The reviewing speed is surprisingly slow, and I don't know if it's because of the editor or the reviewers. Everyone can see for themselves.
05 Feb 2021 - AU - Submission Confirmation
08 Aug 2021 - Editor decision - Major Revision
The reviewing process took 6 months, and the email was not received in a timely manner. I only received it on the 23rd. However, the website status showed it was sent on the 8th.
There were two reviewers, one recognized the importance of the manuscript and had a positive view. The other suggested major revisions and had a negative view. I won't make any evaluations here.
27 Sep 2021 - Author Revision
I made careful revisions.
17 Jan 2022 - Editor Decision - Reject
After another nearly 4 months of review, one reviewer agreed to accept it, but the other claimed that we did not meet their requirements for adding experimental suggestions and rejected it. Then the editor made the decision to reject it. My boss heard about it and was almost furious. He wrote an appeal letter, but has not received a response to this day.
After nearly a year, they finally rejected the paper. I am truly speechless. Many other articles based on this manuscript have already been published. Of course, not in a journal from Springer. Having a status tracking system is definitely necessary.
This is my experience with submitting to this journal, and I hope it can be helpful for everyone. I will never touch this journal again in my lifetime.

The rejection comments from this journal are really unreliable. After submitting, it went through a stage where it changed from "editor assigned" to "editor invited," and then after half a month, it changed back to "editor assigned." Anyway, what I saw was that it didn't even enter the "with editor" stage, and it took three months before the initial review. Then, the reasons for rejection given were: 1. Failure to provide an ethics review form, resulting in rejection of the review; 2. Insufficient data samples. Personally, I feel that these review comments are truly perfunctory and inexplicable. It seems like they just casually skimmed through the article, deliberately looked for some issues, and rejected it. Be cautious when submitting.