I agree with @111% for the positioning of iScience. I have also published an article in the journal, which was transferred from Cell Reports. Therefore, iScience is definitely not as good as Cell Reports. In view of the fact that the impact factor of Cell Reports is stable at around 8 all year round, it is considered successful if the impact factor of iScience can be stable at 5–8 points all year round. Cell Reports Physical Science, Cell Reports Medicine should be regarded as journals side by side with Cell Reports, and only under the Cell Reports series is iScience. Now that Cell Reports Physical Science cuts off iScience's manuscript source, it is more difficult for iScience to improve the impact factor.

(227) Thank | Huster11111

@Xixixi2019, the 4th poster. I suspect you are pretending to be crazy! Don't lie to yourself anymore. You published in iScience, and everyone understands your feelings, but do you know what a sister journal is? Currently Cell has only 4 sister journals (as sister journal to Cell) and they are clearly stated in the journal homepage and submission system. Cell Reports Physical Science is a sister journal to Cell Reports (as sister journal to Cell Reports). The editor emphasizes that it positions at a same level. Cell Reports is the sub-journal of Cell (Cell Reports is an open-access journal from Cell press).

(166) Thank | 111%

The hierarchy of the journals in Cell press series is similar to that of Nature: the first echelon journals are Cell and its four interdisciplinary sister journals (Joule, Matter, One Earth, Chem); the second echelon journals are Cell series of major sub-journals (Cancer Cell, Cell Chemical Biology, Cell Stem Cell, etc.), and of course, Cell’s sister journals can also be classified in the category of large sub-journals; the third echelon journals are Cell’s small sub-journals (Cell Reports Physical Science, Cell Reports); the fourth echelon journal is the grandson of Cell (iScience); the fifth echelon journal is the great grandson of Cell (Heliyon).

(213) Thank | 111%

In August 24, the manuscript was submitted through the Cell multi submission platform for review, and it was not accepted until June 25 of the following year. Surprisingly, the transferred submission was rejected by the editor of iScience after a month. The authors appealed and resubmitted the manuscript after making the necessary revisions as per the editor's instructions. This process took two months. Fortunately, the manuscript was directly accepted after the first review, but it took over a month from pre-acceptance to formal acceptance. The article was preliminarily online two days after formal acceptance and proofread a week later. After proofreading, the authors paid the publication fee, but the article has not yet been formally published online.
In summary, the process was slow and the standards were high (even the transferred submission was rejected, indicating high editorial standards). In the field of life sciences and medicine, the journal seems to have a similar standard to NPJ Communications, and can be considered a standard Chinese Academy of Sciences journal in the second district.

(0) Thank | yyp1999

How is the progress going, OP?

(0) Thank | que sere

Is there a high demand for innovation?

(0) Thank | Jack_ABC

The first paper was accepted for publication, so here to fulfill my vow. The suggestions for revisions made by two out of the three reviewers were very practical.

25.1.21 Submitted
25.4.27 Major revisions
25.6.5 Resubmitted
25.6.20 Minor revisions
25.7.4 Published

(0) Thank | 真银铃

I have been observing others' timelines all the time, and this time I also contributed to my own timeline.
Computer-aided medical image processing, from submission to acceptance, took a full six months. It took twenty days for the first round of revisions based on feedback from online users, and it is truly admirable to receive acceptance after three months.
2025.01.06 Submitted in Word format, with additional images added at the end of the manuscript.
2025.04.18 First round of revision feedback, with two reviewer comments.
2025.05.03 Resubmitted, in addition to addressing revision comments, also added graphical abstracts and uploaded individual figures separately. The revised manuscript was submitted without revision marks.
2025.05.30 Second round of revision feedback, with one reviewer feeling that some issues from the first response had not been adequately resolved.
2025.06.10 Resubmitted.
2025.06.25 Pre-acceptance, formatting modifications made according to the so-called START guidelines.
2025.06.28 Resubmitted.
2025.07.04 Finalized, with some clarifications needed regarding the impact of age, gender on the experiment, limitations, etc. It actually feels like the editor could have handled this on their own.
2025.07.07 Resubmitted.
2025.07.10 Accepted.
Overall, it was a decent experience, but the publication fee was quite high at $3500.

(0) Thank | 青青草原懒羊羊

Investing in a paper, the impact factor is really getting worse, give it some effort.

(1) Thank | ShawnWang

可能是遇到了积极编辑，每次返回去后当天就给处理了
It may be that we have encountered proactive editors, as they have processed our requests on the same day each time we have returned.

(0) Thank | 牛头人-麦麦提

How long did the ARC last after the minor repair?

(0) Thank | 青青草原懒羊羊

My first submission included a link to the code.

(0) Thank | 青青草原懒羊羊

6.06投
6.09UR

Translation:
6.06投
6.09UR

(0) Thank | 水人

It has been nearly half a month for me as well.

(0) Thank | sunzhipeng

It's too slow, I've been waiting for half a month and it's still with the editor.

(0) Thank | Zhenglinqi219

May I ask if the initial submission needs to include a code link?

(0) Thank | whekf

2025.04.07 Still under review, no progress in 3 months, too slow.

(0) Thank | 青青草原懒羊羊

Submitted to Journal 2024-12-10
Under Review 2024-12-16
Major Revision 2025-02-17
Minor Revision 2025-03-09
Accepted in principle 2025-03-11.

(0) Thank | ronleexxxxxxx

When will we receive feedback on this? Could you please share a timeline? I submitted an article some time ago and it has been over two months now with no response.

(0) Thank | 青青草原懒羊羊

Hello, could you please share the timeline with me?

(0) Thank | 青青草原懒羊羊

March 11, 2025 still under review, it seems like others are sharing quickly, why is it that there is no news for over two months when it comes to me.

(0) Thank | 青青草原懒羊羊

It seems really slow, it's been two or three months and there is still no news at all.

(0) Thank | 青青草原懒羊羊

I am a non-communication device and I cannot see the status on my system interface. Is this normal?

(0) Thank | 7564

A few days ago it changed to "all reviews complete," but when I checked today, it changed back to "UR" again.

(0) Thank | 不发表如何毕业和评职称

I submitted my paper last October and haven't heard anything since. The status is "Under Review," but they never reply to my emails. I am now considering withdrawing the submission, which is a waste of time. I will not submit to them again in the future. The online claim of a 6-week review process is all a scam.

(0) Thank | xpy