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Submitted a paper early October and received a fast response from the EIC within a week that the manuscript should highlight contributions and resubmit. We did the requested changes and re-submitted within a week, informing the EIC. After a week passed, the journal manager sent a rejection email saying that this is a final decision and that the manuscript cannot be accepted. However the EIC, after another week sent us an email saying that the changes are fine and the manuscript was transferred to an Associate Editor to start the review process. A month after, we received a rejection from the Associate Editor saying that the reviewers suggested rejection. We had two reviews. The first saying that structure and results need to be improved with no further comments. The second had very valid comments with a writing meaning to minor revisions. We did not spend more time with this submission..

Don‘t submit a paper to Applied Energy (AE) journal because there are hundreds of other journals. When you submit to AE, this is what you may get as a reviewer’s opinion: “First of all, I was very surprised to receive a review invitation for such a publication from a high quality and impact factor journal like Applied energy. Although there are thousands of articles on alpha-type stirling engines, the author cited only two articles and three web pages in the references. Even this shows the inadequacy of the article. In addition, no scientific and academic information was found in the article. I am of the opinion that this article (which cannot be called an article because it has nothing scientific) should be rejected.“ The rejection of my paper was based on the above report. This is called a tough decision making process. It makes no sense to discuss anything with this kind of real scientists. The question is how long will this stay in this forum. Sincerely, Josef

This magazine is not particularly demanding on manuscripts, and emphasizes application. The editor-in-chief is Chinese, which is more beneficial to Chinese people. The review speed is fairly fast!

Since the beginning of this year, the number of manuscripts has increased sharply, resulting in a decline in the acceptance rate.

Why did I vote for two of the journals and both were rejected, but I switched to fuel but got hit

Slow, too slow. After three and a half months, I found that the review status has not changed or is under review, but the status time has changed. I don't know when it will be reviewed.

This year’s impact factor should be above 3.2, next year’s impact factor will exceed 4, which is estimated to be around 4.4