Open Geosciences

Posted on December 31st, Year 21.
Received external review comments in early February of Year 22, which required a major revision and a minor revision. It took one month to make the revisions.
Received major revision comments from the reviewer in mid-April. Continued with the major revision while the other reviewer had no objections. It took three weeks to make the revisions.
Waited for one month, but the first reviewer did not provide any further updates. Found a third and fourth reviewer to review the manuscript. It took one month for the reviews to come back in early July. One minor revision and one suggestion for acceptance were given (taking into consideration the previous two rounds of revisions, both the third and fourth reviewers provided positive feedback).
Took two days to make the revisions and on July 21st, the manuscript entered the decision process.
Waited for two months and sent a reminder during this period. Received an acceptance email on September 16th.
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Overall, the process took nine months. The comments given by the reviewers were fair, but the cost-effectiveness was not high. The journal is an annual publication with over 100 accepted articles. If you are in a hurry to graduate, I do not recommend submitting the manuscript.

Hello classmate, I would like to ask you something. I submitted a paper to the journal OG, and it took one month for the first review. There were four reviewers who provided 80 comments. It took about a month to make revisions and submit it back. After another month, the editor and editorial department sent an email saying they just received the final comments from the reviewers. They mentioned minor revisions and asked me to submit the revised manuscript within ten days. However, I only saw comments from reviewer #3 for the revisions this time. I didn't see any comments from the other three reviewers in the email or the submission system. What could be the reason for this? I'm looking forward to your reply.