Please don't submit your manuscript to AECE (Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Recently, I submitted a paper to AECE (Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering). After about 5 months' endless and hopeless wait, I start to request the editor for help.

The following is the discussion with exe-editor. I told all of these to the Editor-in-Chief but he seems not ready to reply it.

You will know how they did their editor job. I don't care how long I would wait, but I just want to warn you that this is a terrible journal that the editor won't know how to do his job.

Please take care to submit to this journal.

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	Ticket status: Waiting reply from staff [Mark as resolved] Created on: 2013-10-06 10:17:11 Last update: 2013-10-07 10:56:49 Category: Paper evaluation Replies: 12 Priority: High Printer friendly version

	Date: 2013-10-06 10:17:11 Dear Editor,Message: Could you please do me a favor to check the reviewing process of the manuscript, which has the following submission infos: Submission Created: 2013-05-16 (143 days ago) Submission Last Updated: 2013-05-17 (142 days ago) Submission in Correct Format: 2013-05-21 (5 days after submission was made) Thanks. Date: 2013-10-06 11:47:49 Name: AECE Support Message: Hi, There is nothing we can say. If reviewers observations will be available you will be norified by Email. Kind regards, Eugen COCA AECE Executive Editor http://www.aece.ro Rated as not helpful Date: 2013-10-06 13:16:22 Name: Message: Can the system notify the reviewers? This is often the case for some journals. So the authors would wait endless in case that the reviewers are dead or forget the review? Date: 2013-10-06 14:42:14 Name: Message: I myself also act as a reviewer for some journals, such as xxx Transactions. They have the following email notifications: Dear Dr. This is an important reminder for you to review Manuscript ID xxx-RP-2013-Aug-0XXX, entitled "XXXX" Your review is 'overdue 3 days'. The authors will be happy with your quick and detailed review. Please kindly ask you to understand our quick and timely review and publication policy. Please complete and then submit your review as soon as possible. To access just the manuscript for review directly with no need to enter log in details, click the link below: ----- As you may know, the aece Avg review time: 127 days, my article is beyond this deadline, and at least the reviewers should be notified. Date: 2013-10-06 17:52:34 Name: AECE Support Message: Average means average. We have papers evaluated in 60 days and also papers evaluated in 180 days or even more, based on the number of papers we have to evaluate and the reviewers' availability. We cannot guarantee an evaluation interval, but we may assure it will not be over 270 days. More details on the HelpDesk. Kind regards, Eugen COCA AECE Executive Editor http://www.aece.ro Rated as helpful Date: 2013-10-06 18:15:18 Name: Message: I think 270 days may be so long for a paper, especially in case that it is rejected, considering the Impact Factor and the charge of AECE. I have submitted to AECE before in 2011, and got the results in 3 months. I also have submitted to some other journals, most of them will return in 90~150 days for the 1st round review. I have never heard of that a journal has such a long review period, and without any approach to notify the reviewers. I know maybe AECE have excessive submissions, so if the reviewers are busy, I will consider to withdraw the submission if the day beyond 150 days. Date: 2013-10-06 18:19:29 Name: Message: 270 days are about 38 weeks. http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewjournals/editor You can notice how long the IEEE TRANS would be. Date: 2013-10-06 19:06:31 Name: AECE Support Message: Hi, We really appreciate your concern on our editorial policies. As you already noticed, the first paper you sent was processed in 3 months. As we inform our authors on the web-page: "Usually, it takes 3 to 6 months from the moment you finished your submission and a response is generated by the reviewing system." and also: http://www.aece.ro/helpdesk/knowledgebase.php?article=4 It is up to you to choose any journal to publish you work. Kind regards, Eugen COCA AECE Executive Editor http://www.aece.ro Was this reply helpful? yes / no Date: 2013-10-07 05:10:07 Name: Message: Dear Editor, Now I understand that your journal is operated under your policy (no matter it is reasonable or not), and the authors should obey it unconditionally. Date: 2013-10-07 08:11:08 Name: AECE Support Message: Dear Author, 1. Every journal has its own editorial policy, most of them making them publicly available, including the evaluation period. We make our editorial policy available to authors, before they choose to submit their papers. 2. If you consider a policy "reasonable or not", this is for sure your opinion. We respect it and you are free to choose another journal. Kind regards, Eugen COCA AECE Executive Editor http://www.aece.ro Was this reply helpful? yes / no Date: 2013-10-07 09:15:25 Name: Message: 1. Yes, each journal has its own policy. Your policy (in our country we called it "unfair clauses") is to make the authors wait until the reviewing results are returned, and you editors can have as few work as possible to do. I can understand this since the journal is not like IEEE/Elsevier, your main work is an Associate Professor. But can you understand the authors? 2. Yes, I will choose another journal if I feel the duration is not OK for me. But before that, I have emailed to the EiC about this issue, since the discussion with you is useless. You can continue to copy and paste your rules to answer questions here. 3. I noticed that you have published two papers on AECE. I want to know how long you wait, and do you think it is OK to publish papers on the journal yourself is exe-editor? Is it also a special rule? Date: 2013-10-07 10:26:51 Name: AECE Support Message: 1. You said " ...to make the authors wait until the reviewing results are returned". Do you know other methods to evaluate the papers? And for the editors/authors not to wait the reviewers opinion? Also at IEEE they have Professors/Associate Professors acting/working as Editors. Seems you are not correctly informed. Please take a look here, and this is only just an example: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=06585828 2. Before rising a question it is fair to read the information we publish publicly on the web-site. If you missed some information, it's my duty to guide. We display the "Average review time" just in the front page, so you know the average waiting period before making a submission. Also, in the paper status interface one may see the estimate publishing issue, if the paper is accepted. I see no problems at all. 3. The rule applies for all papers, no matter the authors. Papers are evaluated in the order they are marked OK for evaluation in the interface. As the evaluation is double-blinded, I see no conflicts. In conclusion, you have your opinions, we respect them. If you are not comfortable with the evaluation policy, we have nothing to do more. The same rules were applied, are applied and will be applied for all papers. This is the last message you receive from us on this subject. Any other topics you are interested in, we will be happy to assist you. Kind regards, Eugen COCA AECE Executive Editor http://www.aece.ro Was this reply helpful? yes / no Date: 2013-10-07 10:56:49 Name: Message: Even I don't want to discuss with you, but I need to make things clear to the EiC, and possibly to SCI-JCR officers and potential authors in our country to prove how you did your work to authors. So I answer you here. Please ignore them if you don't want to. 1. I can also help to post some responses from my prevent journal submission records, to let you know more about what good journals (including a Romanian journal IJCCC, Yes your compatriot http://www.ici.ro/ici/homepage/filipf.html can do it, so I think you can also do it, too.) do. I think you can learn how to be a good editor and how to do good services to make a good journal. --------------------from IEEE Trans Hello Dr. , There has been some discussion over one of the reviews, and I'm not sure if the AE has been satisfied yet. I sent him another email to try and expedite the decision. Best regards, TXXXXX - yyyyy 25-Aug-2013 Dear Ms. xxxx: We submitted xxxx to xxxx 4 months ago. However, we have not yet received the decision on it till now. Since it is only a simple and short comment for correcting a theorem error in a published paper, this review may be a little long. Could you please do me a favor to check again the reviewing process of it? Sorry for taking your time again. Thanks a lot for your kindly help! Regards, Dr. xxxx RE: Transactions on xxxxx --------------------from another journal in Romania (http://journal.univagora.ro/) Dear Colleague , I got only one review. I sent a gentle reminder to the second reviewer . Could you please wait several addditional days? Faithfully yours, xxxx xxxx wrote: > Dear Editor Prof. xxx, > > About two months ago I submitted a paper titled "xxxx" to you with > the pdf file name "xxxx". Since the online > system was closed then for security reasons, you kindly helped me with the > email submission and arranged the reviewing (Past email contents are > listed in the remaining part of this email). > > Since the paper was not submitted by the online system, I wonder if I can > now query its current reviewing status from you. Anything I can do for > improving its quality, please don't hesitate tell me. > > Sorry for bothering you. Thanks again for your kindly help to me! > > Best Regards! > xxxxx 2. I just tell you here that discussing with you is useless. What you done is very simple: "to see the rules...". 3. I can show you how others do, and you can read it carefully if you want to: http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/10049/should-an-editor-in-chief-publish-in-their-own-journal http://publicationethics.org/case/editor-author-own-journal In conclusion, you have your style, and I also respect it. What I want to do here is to tell you that you can learn to improve your work as the editor. I also don't want to say more about this issue, I will choose time to withdraw the paper if I don't want to continue in case that the reviewers are dead or ill or missing from earth (as your said, it is my right). 貢献AECEは編集が作家を助けるために何もしないことに注意してください。 投稿AECE请注意，编辑不作任何事情来帮助作者。 Beiträge AECE Bitte beachten Sie, dass die Bearbeitung nicht alles tun, um den Autor zu helfen.