I am also in this situation. I have never been rejected three times in a row before when submitting to other major publishing houses. I don't know if it's because there are a particularly high number of submissions this year or what. If I get rejected again this time, I will try the Frontier series. If that doesn't work, I will have to go back to traditional management journals.

(0) 讚！ | huangly11

The third paper during my doctoral period took about a month to be accepted. The overall process was quite fast, but it took a week for it to be sent for review, which was a bit slow. The submission timeline is as follows:
2026.09.02 Submit
2026.09.03 Pending editor decision
2026.09.10 Under review
2026.09.27 Pending minor revision
2026.09.30 Resubmit
2026.10.01 Pending editor decision
2026.10.02 Paper accepted
2026.10.03 Pending English
2026.10.04 English correction done
2026.10.05 Online

(1) 讚！ | MZ_Han

Is it usually a template rejection for "pending editor decision" the next day? Are they asking you to provide additional materials?

(0) 讚！ | 满眼星辰

It's too fast. It was published in 4 weeks. Submitted on 7.20, accepted on 8.15, and published on 8.17.

(0) 讚！ | a34s

2026-07-15   Submit
2026-07-16   Pending editor decision
2026-07-17   Under review
2026-08-10   Pending minor revision
2026-08-12   Resubmitted
2026-08-12   Revised version review
2026-08-12   Pending editor decision
2026-08-12   Paper accepted

The process was very fast, with three external reviewers and minor revisions requested by the editor. The paper was accepted on the same day it was resubmitted. It took less than a month from submission to acceptance.

(0) 讚！ | 我在地球打酱油

Yes, the materials are missing, please send an email to make up for it.

(0) 讚！ | a34s

Is your second status pending editor decision?

(0) 讚！ | 浩天

7.20 submitted
7.21 pending editor decision
7.22 under review

(0) 讚！ | a34s

The submission was sent for external review on the same day, and the process was very fast, taking approximately 40 days from start to finish.

(0) 讚！ | lalaou

Is it because of the template in the end? Did you resubmit after being rejected?

(0) 讚！ | 小僧鸠摩智

5.9 Enter the ped state, only received one review comment, the reviewer suggested acceptance.
5.16 accept
It took one month and one week from submission to acceptance, the speed is still very fast.

(0) 讚！ | lalaou

4.30 Overhaul
5.3 Revision

(0) 讚！ | lalaou

4.30 Maintenance
5.3 Revision

(0) 讚！ | lalaou

MDPI's journals generally have a Basel at the end.

(0) 讚！ | Pei·Chen

It's Agriculture-basel. They refer to themselves as Agriculture, while others refer to them as Agriculture-basel. Agriculture is not in SCI, but this Agriculture-basel is in the second district of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

(0) 讚！ | 李炼师

Record of submission process:
3/15 Submission in the evening
3/16 Under review
3/31 Major revisions (8 days, over 40 comments from 4 reviewers)
4/7 Resubmission
4/9 Acceptance by three reviewers, one reviewer requested major revisions (3 days for revisions)
4/11 Resubmission
4/14 Accept
The process was quite tense, spent a lot of money renting several servers for experiments. Overall, the submission experience was okay, but the time given for major revisions was too short.

(0) 讚！ | wen121

The speed is very fast! Submitted in the afternoon, assigned to assistant editor after 1 hour, UR in the evening, possibly due to Friday, the editor quickly completed the process, hoping for a smooth acceptance.

(0) 讚！ | lalaou

Same question??

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Do we have to pay the layout fee?

(0) 讚！ | 007ok

What is the relationship between Agriculture and Agriculture-basel? Why does it say Agriculture on the official website when the Agriculture section cannot be found?

(0) 讚！ | jovi.

Submitted on December 10th, reviewed on December 25th, revised on December 31st, accepted on January 3rd, and published on January 6th.

(0) 讚！ | 雯轩

Could you please tell me the difference between PR and PED?

(0) 讚！ | Fang

2026.01.12 submit
2026.01.12 pending review
2026.01.13 under review

(0) 讚！ | xy