ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

0806 Submitted
0807 Associate Editor Assigned
0810 Associate Editor Assigned
0817 In Peer Review
0907 Minor Revision (9.20 deadline)
0915 Revision submitted
0915 Associate Editor Assigned
0916 In Peer Review
0919 Revision requested (format modification)
0920 Accepted
The speed is quite fast, and the editor is Liu Chongxuan from South University of Science and Technology. This article has gone through ups and downs. After being rejected by Water Research, it was resubmitted to WR after supplementary experiments were conducted according to the reviewers' comments, but it was rejected again. Then it was submitted to Sci. Total Environ., EP, and Chemosphere, but none of them were reviewed. Finally, it was submitted to this ACS journal in the field of geochemistry. The quality of this new journal is good at the beginning, and many industry experts have published articles in it. However, the influence of geochemistry journals is limited, and the impact factor is estimated to not increase for a while. Therefore, it was ultimately chosen to be published in this journal due to the recognition of ACS's reputation.

After several experts believed that the data mining was not sufficient, the editors suggested submitting the paper with their replies to this journal. After carefully responding to the EST editorial comments, the paper was resubmitted. The editor was good and also sent it to the previous EST reviewers. The review process was fast, with a response received within two weeks, and the replies were satisfactory. With a few minor suggestions, the paper was accepted within a week upon resubmission.