Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M-Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment

2022.03.22 submit
2022.04.08 under review
2022.05.09 major revision
2022.06.01 revision submit
2022.06.23 major revision
2022.06.28 revision submit
2022.07.28 awaiting recommendation
2022.08.02 accept
After the initial submission, the assigned editor was slow, but there's no need to worry. The review period for the two reviewers is four weeks, which is considered relatively fast. I encountered a difficult reviewer who always waited until the end of the four weeks to review and consistently found new problems, leading to two major revisions. Each time, I anxiously waited for a month, afraid of being rejected by them.
The number of articles published in the journal is decreasing, causing the impact factor to continuously decline. It has now become a fourth quartile journal this year, sigh. The editor is also not proactive in managing it, making it difficult.

This journal has a slow distribution process for assigning editors. It took over half a month for mine to be assigned. However, the review process is quite fast. Mine was reviewed and completed in less than a month. The editor has not provided the decision yet, but I estimate it will be a rejection. Sigh, I admit that my writing is really bad and I have no confidence in it.