First review takes three months, with one reviewer suggesting minor revisions and another suggesting major revisions. The editor rejects the submission but invites a resubmission. After conducting additional experiments, the resubmission undergoes a second review which takes one and a half months. The same reviewers are involved, with one agreeing directly and the other raising some language issues. The editor gives the authors five days to make the necessary revisions. After five days, the revised version is accepted by the editor. 

Overall evaluation: The reviewers are very professional and responsible. The editor is relatively friendly. It is said that PS is also a well-established journal in the field of botany, and the overall quality of the article is good. Best wishes for everyone's article to be accepted soon!

(1) 讚！ | Rockyflying

Submitted a review article. Needed to self-recommend to the editor, and the process went smoothly, taking about fifteen days to be accepted. Then it took about one and a half months for external review. The first revision came back, and a total of three revisions were made. The journal took about two weeks to accept it after that.

(1) 讚！ | meimei

Second revision, both the editors and reviewers were very efficient. The journal was very friendly.

(1) 讚！ | 呵呵呵哈哈哈11

How long has the "under review" status lasted?

(0) 讚！ | 18434761800@126.com

Overall, Plant Science is an established journal, and the quality of the articles it accepts is much better than in previous years. This is largely due to the increase in the journal's impact factor. Furthermore, the journal's review process is very fast, with review comments typically provided within a month. We hope to increase the citation count and surpass the 5-point mark next year.

(87) 讚！ | ZHLGL

Hahaha, buddy, how come this sentence of yours is also in the comments section of the journal of plant science frontiers?

(0) 讚！ | 灌水老先生

The quality of the manuscript review is really disappointing. I recently submitted an article that I had prepared for a solid year, thinking it was completely presentable. Unexpectedly, the first feedback received stated that there were ethical issues in the article, just like another paper I had published before, from the experiments to the data to the conclusions. This comment was so powerful that the editor immediately rejected the paper, while other reviewers' feedback has yet to be received. Seeing this comment and decision is simply absurd. There is indeed another parallel work that was published in another journal earlier, but the data, methods, objectives, and conclusions are completely different from those of the paper under review. The reviewer probably did not thoroughly read the content, hastily drawing conclusions that determine the fate of the article. The editor is also quite irresponsible. As an associate editor of a journal myself, I generally do not easily conclude on ethical issues, at least not based solely on one reviewer's opinion.

(3) 讚！ | jingweimo

The time under review was updated once, and it has been a month with no news.

(1) 讚！ | 易之

Did not propose experimental questions, there are numerous language problems, did not provide major or minor revisions and asked for modifications. Is there any hope?

(2) 讚！ | 张小飞

What does it mean to make changes without major or minor repairs? Is there any hope?

(0) 讚！ | 张小飞

Received at Editorial Office 30 Oct 2020
Article revised 7 Jan 2021
Article accepted for publication 10 Jan 2021
Overall, the review and revision process was quite fast. The first review took approximately 20 days (major revisions, no experimental requirements), and the second review took around 10 days (minor revisions accepted and quickly returned).

(19) 讚！ | sdn12138

The review speed was not fast, the reviewers were very serious, and the comments given had greatly improved the article. Plant Science is a time-honored journal in the field of plant science, with a stable impact factor. There are options for the publication fee, and you can choose not to pay.

(0) 讚！ | mingdi

Can I pass with a score of 4 this year?

(0) 讚！ | 华清文波

The second article went much smoother than the first one. After the first round of revisions, all three reviewing experts provided minor edits, and the article was accepted two days after the revisions. Efficiency has improved significantly

(0) 讚！ | 碧桃梓希

The second article, which is much smoother than the first article. After the first review, all three reviewers gave minor revisions, 2 days after revision Receive directly. The efficiency becomes higher.

(6) 讚！ | 番茄君

Overall, plant science is relatively friendly to Chinese academics. The editor-in-chief is very good, though there is not enough time for experiments. A request to extend the submission deadline was quickly replied to by the editor, with the extension being slightly longer than requested. In recent years, the development momentum of PCR has been better than the JIPB, with a slight decline

(0) 讚！ | 寒阴思宸

The editorial department is not very efficient in handling, but the review process is quite fast. The opinions raised by the reviewers are very insightful and greatly improve the article. We added four small experiments and rejected one, and the revised version was accepted directly

(0) 讚！ | 仙灵俊驰

The editorial office did not process it in time, but the review speed was relatively fast, the comments raised by the review experts were of high level, which were helpful for improving the article. I supplemented four small experiments, and one of them was rejected. It was accepted directly after revision.

(7) 讚！ | 番茄君

Is this magazine a second or third district magazine?

(0) 讚！ | 璃沙恨真

The reviewers are very serious and their comments are also very pertinent. I have learned a lot from my first article. I am lucky to have chosen this journal!

(0) 讚！ | 法慧彩云

Many people ask whether this journal belongs to the second or third quartile. If you are in the field of plant science, this journal belongs to the second quartile; if you are in the field of biology and molecular biology, it belongs to the third quartile. Generally, papers published in this journal are related to plants, so it is a second quartile journal

(0) 讚！ | 火焰长青

Is this journal a Q2 or Q3 journal? Plant science has become Q3?

(0) 讚！ | 上清睿敏

Did Plant Science become three divisions?

(0) 讚！ | 慈悲映冬

How long is the current review cycle for this journal? It used to take about one month to hear back after submitting a manuscript, but it's been two and a half months now and it's still Under Review

(0) 讚！ | 混元宛筠

May I ask if the Chinese herbal fingerprint database can be included in this?

(0) 讚！ | 黑山芮雅