問題： 為什么我的論文第二輪審稿時間特別長？

我在 1 月 19 號的時候投稿給 Elsevier 期刊，在 2 月 15 日的時候收到審稿意見。審稿人的意見是： Reviewer 1 appreciated the work and said that ?it is of potential interest for many useers.He had only a few very minor comments, which could be even addressed at the proofreading stage: one suggested adding a reference, the second required splitting a table, and the last one asked to make a database in our work available for public.?Reviewer 2 pointed out a few errors and asked me to explain some unclear areas in the work, and asked me to change a caption of a figure and to make the database available as the first reviewer had. 雖然我認為審稿人的意見是小修，但編輯的決定是大修，讓我 6 周內返修。我根據審稿意見一一進行回復跟修改，在第 4 周也就是 3 月 14 日的時候重投了。我以為會很快就收到接受通知的，但論文卡在 with editor 好長一段時間，比一審的時候還長。于是我發郵件詢問編輯是怎么回事，結果狀態在一個小時之后就變成了 under review。這個期刊從修改到接收的平均時間是 13 天，但我的論文已經超過 45 天了，難道是要被拒了嗎？