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Reasonable submission requirements and response time. Only major drawback is publishing fee.

Great journal to submit to. Almost no pre-submission requirements (can submit as one PDF file), and quick turnaround.

Straightforward submission and minimal reviewer comments, though approval/rejection response time can be quite delayed

Terrific journal. Reasonably straightforward submission process. Timely review. Often quite intricate statistical review with request for additional analysis.

Minimal pre-submission formatting requirements. Straightforward submission process. Relatively timely response.

Relatively straightforward submission process. Overall good experience.

Great journal to submit to. minimal pre-submission requirements. fast turn around time from submission to decision

Very fast peer review. And also quite reasonable. I want to give them 5 stars, but there was so many annoying pre-submission requirements and edits I’m giving it 4 stars

Great journal to submit to. Minimal formatting required prior to submission. Quick turn around time for initial decision.

One of the best journals to submit to. They don’t waste your time with pre submission non-sense. Very fast to reject. And relatively fast to get peer-reviews

Very very slow from submission to peer review (4mo+) but fortunately very free pre submission requests or edits

Great process, easy overall, and quite quick for a BMJ journal.

Overall good experience, a little picky post acceptance with formatting to get it through (went from minor revisions to major revisions just to get formatting or word count to standard). Would submit again.

Just published a paper there, from the start to the end, very easy process. No major formatting issues, very quick turnaround. Would definitely repeat.

I will definitely be submitting to IJE again. Probably the best experience I've ever had with a journal. little formatting requirements, very quick review process, and a painless post-acceptance process.

Extremely slow! Despite only very minor revisions required after initial submission, it took more than 8 months for the paper to be accepted. A strict requirement to ''archive'' all webpages for all references used. After acceptance, the EIC reviews the abstract and heavily adapts it. The impact factor is relatively good and a the manuscript has to be reviewed by a biostatistician as a third reviewer.

I have had 2 very good experiences with CJD. Very quick review process, limited formatting requests, very knowledgeable reviewers. For both papers, I can actually say the review process highly improved the papers. However, the impact factor has dropped a bit in 2022.

Tough review process and very strict formatting requirements after revisions or closer to acceptance. The submission can be returned because the phone number of the corresponding author is not in the specific spot it needs to be or because there is an extra space (return button) in one cell in a table. However, very quick review process (4 weeks exactly for first round, 2 weeks for second round) and an editor who pushed back on unreasonable requests by a reviewer.

While the initial submission and the review process is okay, the post acceptance process is absolutely painful! The requirements for plot formatting is very (extremely!!!) strict. The paper can go through 4-5 rounds because the alignment of parentheses in a forest plot is not to their standards.

No strict formatting needed for initial submission. Less than 3 months from initial submission to decision. Paper published online within 2 weeks of acceptance. Allows authors to upload peer review comments from another journal with response to reviewers for for initial submission.