We often meet this question from authors: how long can a manuscript can have final decision for the Journal of Mountain Science?

For this question, I really can't give the authors a definite and certain answer.

In fact, the manscript processing period is affected by many factors. The most important,  I think, is the manscript quality. Other factors include whether the editors have assigned the appropriate and suitable peer-reviewers in the most shortest time, and whether the peer-reviewers send their comments within the required time, and if a manuscript needs to be revised after review, whether the authors send back their manuscripts in the possibly short time.

Dear authors,   

  The review process will vary with different manuscripts. For an accepted manuscript, it will experience the process of anti-plagiarism checking (within one day), initial review by the scientific editor (within four days, about 30 percent of manuscripts will be rejected after the initial review), peer-review (only manuscripts that have passed the initial review will be sent out for peer-review. We require the reviewers to return comments within 20 days after they formally accept the review invitation), author revision (Some revised manuscript may be sent to the previous reviewers to check their revision once again ), editor's decision and finally the executive editor-in-chief's decision. Usually peer review occupies the longest time, sometimes it's because it costs a long time to find sufficient and suitable peer-reviewers. The quality of a manuscript is also a very important factor to attract reviewers to accept the review and give constructive suggestions on the manuscript.

      Any way, we always try to take any possible measures to shorten the manuscript processing period.

      Best regards to you

      QIU Dunlian