Q: Is there a web page or message board where authors can share their experiences with specific journals?

Answer:

As per our knowledge, there’s no such central forum for authors where you can share your experience with journals. However, I agree that this information would be helpful to many researchers. Since Editage Insights is a platform for researchers, we would definitely be interested to understand your feedback, so that we can think of the best way to share it through our site and help other researchers benefit from it. You can write to us on insights@www.editage.com and we could discuss this further.

We also have a couple of articles which have many author comments.

• Tracking your manuscript status in journal submission systems
• What is the meaning of "decision in process" status?

The first one has over 850 comments and the second one more than 250. Many authors have been using the comments section of these two articles to share their experiences with specific journals. Therefore, this is another option that you can consider.

Related reading:

• Author perspectives on the academic publishing process: initial observations from a large-scale global survey