Effective 01.09.2023, the SCENTIA International Economic Journal has been rebranded as Science International Empirical Journal. This change reflects the journal's specialisation evolution and broader publication reach beyond individual collaboration partners. Furthermore, we are actively seeking inclusion in SCOPUS and Web of Science. Our unwavering commitment remains to the journal's thematic and qualitative advancement.

After more than 40 successfully placed scientific articles, the first volume of our journal was finally closed today and is now not available for further publication. The first volume was available for high-quality scientific publications for more than 2 years.
We would like to thank all authors, the scientific advisory board, as well as all reviewers and editors.
At the same time, we are opening the second volume with its first issue, in which up to 15 articles will be published.

A big thank you to our authors, our reviewers, and members of the scientific advisory board. After now more than 15 published peer-reviewed articles, Volume 1 Issue 2 will soon be closed for further publications.
Volume 1 Issue 3 will then be available for further articles without any transition.

The management of SIER, in consultation with the scientific advisory board of the journal, has decided to open another topic area for publications. This new topic area covers all general medical topics, such as public health, medicine and biochemistry. Due to the increased demand for publication opportunities in this area, the section has been staffed with its own specialised reviewers and thus opened up for future peer-reviewed publications. In the long term, the Public Health section will be transferred by the publisher into a journal of its own, insofar as there is a consistently high demand for public health publications.

We are proud to announce that SIER has successfully closed its first issue for further publication in August of 2021.
14 articles were successfully published. A total of 45 articles were submitted, 15 articles were rejected within two weeks as part of a desk rejection. Unfortunately, a further 16 articles could not successfully complete the peer review process by August 2021 and therefore had to be rejected in the final. The average duration of the peer-review process was 13 weeks. The acceptance rate of the first edition is 31.1%.
The articles of the first issue were downloaded an average of 20 times a day in the first three months after the issue closed. Each article has an average of 75 views per day by interested readers worldwide.
The first issue of 2021 can be found at LINK TO FIRST ISSUE 2021.

Starting on March 25th 2021, SIER has completed 3 months of operations. The journal received 44 submissions during this period. Of these, 24 submitted articles were rejected as part of a desk rejection. Twenty articles have been peer reviewed, 12 of which have been accepted and published to date. The acceptance rate is currently around 27%.

SIER has started publishing operations on 2021/03/25.
SIER has been issued an ISSN by Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. 2748-0089
SIER has become a member of CrossRef and has been issued a unique DOI Prefix. 10.52514

In the first month of operations we received 15 Submissions. 5 Submissions were rejected by the Editor before being submitted to Peer-Review . 10 Submissions were submitted into Peer-Review. 5 Submissions were published after Peer-Review and revisions. The Submission/Acceptance Ratio for the first month of operations is at 33,3%. We expect the Acceptance Rate to be below 25% in the months to come.

SIER Reviewer are expected to return their review within 2 weeks from acceptance. We expect the publication process to take approximately 8 to 12 weeks in average.