Verified Reviews - BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS
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Editor 2023-07-26

What is the current status, OP?

微生物挥发性有机物 2023-04-18

April 17 under review.

微生物挥发性有机物 2023-04-13

How are things now?

微生物挥发性有机物 2023-04-13

Posted on March 29, 2023, under review on April 2, 2023, under review on April 12, 2023.

yizhi26 2023-02-21

Why is it still "With Editor" after more than a month of submission?

静妮123 2022-12-16

Received, happy~

grammays 2022-12-02

Sent, after the repair was completed, it was sent for external review again.

nanapeng2022 2022-11-21

2022.11.21 under review.

nanapeng2022 2022-11-20

2022.11.10 submitted
2022.11.14 with editor

Translation:

Submitted on November 10th, 2022
With editor on November 14th, 2022

HUGR 2022-11-09

"Have you submitted your dip for review?"

HUGR 2022-11-09

Brother, have you submitted your dip for review?

HUGR 2022-11-09

Have you got the result?

静妮123 2022-11-07

I returned for major revisions and went directly from "with editor" status to "decision in process" status. Now the status has been "decision" all along. Has anyone encountered this situation before? I am really worried.

cd 2022-11-02

10.28 decision in process

cd 2022-11-02

10.28 decision in process - This means that a decision is currently being made or is in the process of being finalized on October 28th.

P2 2022-10-05

6.21 The review is completed, and revisions are being made.
7.21 First round of revisions were sent back, and then two additional experts were assigned by the editorial department due to one reviewer not completing their review.
9.15 The review is completed, and the second round of revisions is being made. The third reviewer has provided many comments.
10.5 Second round of revisions were sent back.

grammays 2022-09-30

7.10 Major renovation
8.22 Return for repair

cd 2022-09-09

8.21 Submission
9.9 with editor
Anxiety.

grammays 2022-08-21

The original poster wants to ask if your revised manuscript has been reviewed externally again. Mine has been with the editor for over a week now, and I don't know if it hasn't been sent for external review yet or if it doesn't need to be sent.

Bee_worker 2022-07-13

Old soil science journals, ranked second only to SBB. Professor Paolo Nannipieri, the editor-in-chief, is specially responsible and also participates in the review process. His work efficiency is very high. In the first round of revisions, he provided many suggestions. We made thorough revisions to the manuscript and returned it to the editorial department. The editor-in-chief was very satisfied and asked us to make minor revisions in the second round before accepting it. The manuscript was submitted on January 7th and published online on March 20th, taking a total of 2 and a half months. This is considered a relatively fast publication for me. Therefore, I highly recommend this well-established and classic soil science journal.

尔玉 2022-06-23

My very fast, 2 days.

P2 2022-06-19

Reviewers agreed
On 26 May, 2022
Reviewers invited
Invitations sent on 26 May, 2022
Editor assigned
On 25 May, 2022
First submitted to Biology and Fertility of Soils
On 23 May, 2022
The submission about soil microbes, it feels like the process is quite fast. The external review should be ending soon. I hope for good results.

grammays 2022-06-14

OP, have you experienced "decision in process" before? It's been a week for me and still no results.

尔玉 2022-06-14

After reading other reviews of the journal, the peer review speed of this journal varies. It can be fast, taking about a month, or slow, taking 3-4 months.

YY66 2022-06-14

Submission Experience:
3.21 Submitted
3.23 External Review
6.9 Received reviewers' comments, two reviewers, one suggested major revisions mainly regarding the discussion and conclusion; the other questioned the experimental method. The editor believed that the issue with the experimental method could not be corrected through major revisions, and ultimately a rejection was given.

grammays 2022-06-08

The translation of "6.7 decision in process" into English is "6.7 decision being made."

grammays 2022-06-07

6.7 Decision in process: Oh my, please, let me graduate, let me graduate.

grammays 2022-06-07

6.6 Required Reviews Completed

WYQ2626 2022-05-18

Detailed timeline as follows~
01 Feb - Submitted to journal
04/19 Feb - Under review
13/14 Mar - Required reviews completed
24 Mar - Revision
22 Apr - Revision Submitted to Journal
26 Apr - With Editor + Under Review
06 May - Revision
10 May - Revision Submitted to Journal
12 May - With Editor + Revision
13 May - Revision Submitted to Journal
13 May - With Editor
17 May - Accepted

WYQ2626 2022-05-18

Personal experience is very good, from submission to acceptance it took about three and a half months. The editor is the chief editor Prof. Paolo Nannipieri. The manuscript processing speed is very fast, and the chief editor himself will carefully read the article, including its content and language. The editor and the three reviewers all recognized the innovation of the experiment, but they provided very detailed suggestions for revision. The reviewer's comments were 8 pages long, totaling 3600+ words, with the chief editor's comments being 2 pages long. It took a month to make the revisions, and finally, a reply letter of nearly 27 pages and 7800 words was written (there were several breakdowns during this period). The main text was also extensively revised (there were several breakdowns during this period). Fortunately, it seems that the editor did not send it for a second external review (although the status is still "under review"), and the second round of revisions only had a few comments from the editor (it seems that there was no major or minor revision, only modifications), which was quite a pleasant surprise.

As previous people have said, the editor does recommend citing articles from this journal (not mandatory). He recommended 4 articles to me, and 2 of them were directly related to my content, so I cited them. If possible, I suggest citing some recent articles published by BFS, maybe it can improve the favorability?

In addition, this time the information about the recommended reviewers was written in great detail, I wonder if it is also related to the relatively fast review process.

Good luck to everyone with their submissions!

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