>submit paper to journal
>get initial reviews back 2 months later, accept with minor review and a couple of minor comments, deadline for fixing is 1 month
>fix minor issues within 1 month deadline
>wait for 2.5 months, hear absolutely nothing
>get reviews back, again accept with minor revision. 2/3 reviewers are now happy and have absolutely nothing to comment on
>third reviewer dropped out and has been replaced with a guy that clearly didn't bother reading more than the abstract and introduction, complaining about missing related work etc. that's already in the paper
>1 month deadline to fix comments
>address comments in review letter and rewrite introduction, really a minor thing, in 2 weeks
>wait for 2 months, still no reply yet
God damn it, why does it take so fucking long? The review for the third revision is taking longer time than it took the reviewers to review the original submission FFS
Also, why is it going back to reviewers for a third time? Shouldn't the editor just have a quick look at it? I mean, we have 1 month deadlines to fix things but the replacement reviewer is taking forever when the original three reviewers were happy and had only minor comments.
>get initial reviews back 2 months later, accept with minor review and a couple of minor comments, deadline for fixing is 1 month
>fix minor issues within 1 month deadline
>wait for 2.5 months, hear absolutely nothing
>get reviews back, again accept with minor revision. 2/3 reviewers are now happy and have absolutely nothing to comment on
>third reviewer dropped out and has been replaced with a guy that clearly didn't bother reading more than the abstract and introduction, complaining about missing related work etc. that's already in the paper
>1 month deadline to fix comments
>address comments in review letter and rewrite introduction, really a minor thing, in 2 weeks
>wait for 2 months, still no reply yet
God damn it, why does it take so fucking long? The review for the third revision is taking longer time than it took the reviewers to review the original submission FFS
Also, why is it going back to reviewers for a third time? Shouldn't the editor just have a quick look at it? I mean, we have 1 month deadlines to fix things but the replacement reviewer is taking forever when the original three reviewers were happy and had only minor comments.
