The median number of days from submission to first editorial decision to either send the paper to review or reject it without further consideration.

For papers that are sent to review, the median number of days from submission to receipt of decision after the first round of review.

The median number of days from submission to receipt of accept decision for all papers accepted at the journal.

The median number of days from acceptance to online publication of the version of record for all papers published in the journal.

The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years. Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2022)

The Immediacy Index is a measure of the speed at which content in a particular journal is picked up and referred to and is calculated by dividing the number of citations to articles published in a given year by the number of articles published in that year.

CiteScore measures the average citations received per peer-reviewed document published in this title. CiteScore values are based on citation counts in a range of four years (e.g. 2019-2022) to peer-reviewed documents (articles, reviews, conference papers, data papers and book chapters) published in the same four calendar years, divided by the number of these documents in these same four years (e.g. 2019– 22).