Statistics

Editorial turnaround, decisions and AI usage since 1 April 2026. Figures for April–September 2026 were carried over from the journal's previous platform; later figures are computed live from this platform's records.

Period: 1 April 2026 – today

Turnaround

Initial screening
15 min

Language check, translation parity and editorial pre-screening.

Review
1 day

Independent AI reviewers (27-question reviewer form) and field editor synthesis.

Decision
2 days

Time to the chief editor's decision.

Publication
1 h

Proofing, placement in an issue and DOI registration after acceptance.

AI Token Usage

Total tokens
218,546,584

Previous platform 214,845,600 · this platform 3,700,984

Per article
159,530

Average tokens over all editorial agent steps.

Per reviewer report
107,823

Reviewer form analysis.

Average response time
57.4 s

This platform (reasoning models, whole manuscripts); previous platform: 4.8 s

By editorial role
Independent AI reviewers (reviewer form)99,691,587 · 45.6%
Field editor AI (reviewer assignment and report synthesis)51,612,440 · 23.6%
Language and translation checker (spelling, grammar, translation parity)34,422,060 · 15.8%
Assistant editor AI (scope, discipline classification, final summary)32,442,768 · 14.8%
Other (tests and auxiliary calls)377,729 · 0.2%

Input / output — previous platform: 78% / 22% · this platform: 87% / 13%

Models
This platform
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free40.0%
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b24.4%
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free21.6%
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b8.4%
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b2.4%
qwen/qwen3.8-27b:free1.5%
openai/gpt-oss-20b0.8%
z-ai/glm-5.30.8%
dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free0.1%
nvidia/riva-translate-4b-instruct-v20.0%
Previous platform
Llama 3.3 70B75%
Mixtral 8x22B15%
Qwen 2.510%

Reviewer agents receive the manuscript without author details only.

Acceptance and Rejection

Month Accepted Revision Rejected Acceptance rate
April 2026previous platform 48 — 18 73%
May 2026previous platform 54 — 22 71%
June 2026previous platform 58 — 24 71%
July 2026previous platform 62 — 25 71%
August 2026previous platform 68 — 27 72%
September 2026previous platform 72 — 29 71%
October 2026 8 2 0 100%
Total 370 2 145 71.8%

Acceptance rate = accepted / (accepted + rejected). The previous platform did not record revision decisions separately.

Duration Statistics previous platform

Statistic Articles Average
Submission – Withdrawn 14 2.0 days
Submission – Returned to author 28 1.0 days
Submission – First editor assignment 507 5 h
First editor assignment – Acceptance decision · with peer review 362 1.0 days
First editor assignment – Acceptance decision · without peer review 12 10 h
First editor assignment – Rejection decision · with peer review 115 1.0 days
First editor assignment – Rejection decision · without peer review 30 7 h
Submission – Acceptance decision · with peer review 362 4.0 days
Submission – Acceptance decision · without peer review 12 1.2 days
Submission – Rejection decision · with peer review 115 4.0 days
Submission – Rejection decision · without peer review 30 12 h

Submissions

Submitted
515
Returned to author
28
Withdrawn
14
Published on this platform
8

Submitted, returned and withdrawn include the previous platform.