Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Thesis in the field of Management Science & Platform Management,
Submitted by the end of 2021,
Received revision notification in April 2022,
Revised version sent back in June 2022,
No news in between,
Contacted the editor in February 2023,
Received conditional acceptance (minor revisions) in March 2023,
Revised version sent back in April 2023,
Received acceptance notification in May 2023.

In theory, the initial review was not quick, but it was acceptable. However, I don't know why it took so long to receive further information after the revisions were submitted. It took a considerable amount of time, but fortunately, the outcome was still good.

This journal accepts some papers in the field of Management Science, though not many. They accept both empirical and model-based papers, with topics related to information, platforms, and other related subjects.

A journal with a lot of problems, and the editor is very irresponsible. I submitted in April of year 22 and received revisions in April of year 23. There were three reviewers, but only the opinions of two reviewers were provided. I didn't think the issues were significant and made careful revisions before resubmitting. However, the editor found new reviewers, and one of them maliciously commented that the model derivation was incorrect. In reality, I referenced top journals for the model derivation, and there was absolutely no problem. The editor decided to reject the paper, taking a total of 13 months. I suspect that the editor didn't want to accept it and privately asked the reviewers to provide rejection comments. It's extremely irresponsible.