Materials Chemistry Frontiers

Edited by Shu Seki, received feedback for revisions one month after submission. Made the requested revisions but was rejected. The editor requested a major revision and resubmission. Resubmitted after 7 days and was rejected after 24 days (two reviewers, one agreed to accept, the other pasted my conclusion and suggested further optimization of experimental results, and recommended submission to RSC advance). Feeling a bit disappointed but mostly speechless. Although I have submitted many times and have become accustomed to rejections, it is difficult to accept such a rejection reason without any feedback or explanation, especially when one reviewer provided substantial revision suggestions and agreed to accept the revised manuscript. Sigh, still not good enough, mediocrity is the original sin.

There is no more illusion about domestic journals. The well-known editor surnamed Huang holds onto other people's manuscripts for over 20 days without processing them. When reminded, the manuscripts are immediately rejected. Even as someone who has come from their student days, they don't know how to save other people's time. This kind of person is simply heartless. If you're busy, you can choose not to be an editor. Yet, they want to occupy social resources and promote themselves without doing a good job. I admit that the article is bad, but you can at least take a look or even not read it and just send it back!