Up-front rejections or which type of paper should I not submit to Water Research

摘要

The Editorial Board of Water Research handles more than 3000 papers per year which necessitates in the order of 7500 referee tasks. We aim at an average handling time of 6 months from submission to online publication for accepted papers, for rejected ones much shorter. Water Research aims to handle papers which need minor (or moderate) revision only. Submitted papers that need more work but are not sure to reach the quality level required for Water Research, we reject. In order to protect referees from unnecessary work (in relation to Water Research), and to allow authors to have a speedy submission to a more appropriate journal, we use up-front rejections.