SHOCK AND VIBRATION

Submitted at the end of February, minor revisions were made within a month, and the resubmission was accepted after about a week. It went online at the end of May. Let me briefly share the general process: submitted → invited by an associate editor within about a week → under review for a month → pending approval (this status means that the journal received some revision comments but not all) → revisions → acceptance. The whole process was relatively smooth. I emailed the editor once to modify my email address. There are two main ways to contact the editorial department. The first is that after your manuscript submission is successful, the system will send you an email with the editor's email address, so you can directly email them for inquiry. The second is to email support, which may be slower, but you can still reach them. When sending an email, be sure to indicate the manuscript number. Finally, the publication fee was $2400, which is about 16,000 RMB. It is still quite expensive.

On May 10th, I made a mistake by filling in the wrong corresponding author, so the journal had to check the institutional email. This caused my submission to be sent back on the 16th for resubmission, and I was scolded by my advisor for being careless. There were two reviewers in total, one of them asked me to cite his article and didn't really provide any comments. The other reviewer had quite a lot of comments, which were quite fatal. However, I appreciate the mercy of the reviewers and spared me. This journal publishes articles quickly, but the publication fee is ridiculously expensive.