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How can I check the status of my submitted paper?
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To check the status of your submission in our system, log into your ScholarOne Manuscripts account, and click on “Author.” Under the Author Dashboard Section, click on “Submitted Manuscripts.”
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The Editorial Production Assistant will carry out quality checks on your article at which point you may need to provide further information before your article is sent for Peer Review.
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What happens when you receive the decision letter? After peer review, the editor will consider feedback from the reviewers and then make a decision about the article. The decision letter is delivered to the author via email.
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Revise is the most common type of decision. You will be asked to make changes and submit a revised version for further consideration. The scope of the changes can range from small corrections to major rewriting. The decision letter will include the reviewers’ suggestions on how to improve the article. You should include a point-by-point reply that addresses each suggestion when you submit the revised article.
If your article is rejected, the decision letter will explain why. The letter may include suggestions for improving your article before you submit it to another publication.
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Submitted my paper. Now what?
Feb 18, 2022 | Scholarly publishing
There is something of an air of mystery as to what actually happens to your manuscript once you’ve pressed that “submit” button. It seemingly goes off into cyberspace and you are left playing the waiting game.
These days, if you’ve submitted to a journal via an online submission system, you will be able to track its progress to some extent as you will generally be able to see what stage it’s at. The names of these stages can, however, seem fairly vague and almost worse than no information at all.
So let’s translate them. There are many different submission systems and the stages a manuscript goes through during peer review does differ system to system (and, indeed, journal to journal), so for the purposes of this post we’re going to look at the most common stages of the most common submission site: ScholarOne (formally Manuscript Central).
First Steps
Initially your manuscript will go through stages such as “Awaiting Admin Checklist” and/or “Awaiting Editor Assignment” depending on how new submissions are initially checked on the journal. These stages tend to be moved through fairly swiftly as they are just the editorial team checking that your submission is suitable for peer review and then deciding which of the editors will be responsible for it during the process.
Awaiting Reviewer Selection
This is the first stage of the peer-review process and your manuscript will be here until the assigned Editor has selected some suitable experts to invite to review.
Once enough reviewers have been selected, the manuscript will move on to the next stage. If only one reviewer agrees to review and all the others decline the invitation, however, your manuscript may well return to this stage while the Editor selects more. So if you log in to check on progress several weeks after submission and find your manuscript at this stage, it doesn’t necessarily mean that no action has been taken.
Awaiting Reviewer Invitation
This means that potential reviewers have been selected, but have yet to be invited. Manuscripts quite often return to this stage if not enough of the invited reviewers accepted the invitation so further invitations need to be sent. It’s quite common for editors to select a lot of reviewers, but only invite a few at a time.
Awaiting Reviewer Assignment
This rather ambiguous stage is when reviewers have been invited, but we are waiting for the required number to agree to review. In other words, at this point, the ball is squarely in the reviewers’ court!
In an ideal world, enough of the invited reviewers will agree to review and your manuscript will move on to the next stage. In reality, however, it is quite normal for invited reviewers to be unavailable and for your manuscript to return to one of the earlier stages a couple of times.
Awaiting Reviewer Scores
This is the stage that the editorial team will be striving to get your manuscript to as swiftly as possible. If your manuscript is at this stage, then enough experts have agreed to read and evaluate it and we just need to wait for the reviewers to return their comments so that a decision can be taken.
Once through this stage, your manuscript will move on to a stage such as “Awaiting Recommendation” and/or “Awaiting Decision” and it generally won’t be long before a decision is sent to you.
So That’s It?
That’s it. There are, of course, many things that can cause delays to the process, but the majority of manuscripts move from one stage to the next fairly swiftly.
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Q: When can I expect the status "Awaiting AE Recommendation" to change?
My first submission attempt was rejected by journal, but they offered resubmission after incorporating review comments. After resubmission, it went to "Under review" quickly. Then the status changed to "Awaiting AE Recommendation" after a month. It has been three weeks since. How long do I need to wait to get the result? Thanks!
Asked on 25 Mar, 2016
It is difficult to estimate how much longer you need to wait. Once the completed reviews come in, the Associate Editor (AE) evaluates them and gives his recommendation to the EiC. The EiC gives the final verdict based on the AE's recommendation. Since the reviews have come in, the AE should ideally not take too long to give his recommendation. However, sometimes, the AE is not satisfied with the reviews and feels the need for an additional review. If that is the case, then the paper will go under review again and the time taken can be much longer. You can wait for another couple of weeks and if there is still no status change, you can write to the AE politely inquiring when you can expect a decision. You will also find this ebook useful: A guide to understanding journal statuses
Answered by Editage Insights on 30 Mar, 2017
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I submitted my paper to a journal twelve days ago. In Manuscript Central, there were some changes of the paper's status during the first two days, and as far as I can remember, these were Awaiting ADM Processing and Awaiting technical editor selection. At the third day, I saw Awaiting EE Decision which is still there.. From some previous posts I assume that such decision status is normally ...
Initially, once your paper was submitted, the status showed "Admin not assigned." Then it was assigned to an Editorial Assistant (EA) for admin check. This is when the status changed to "EA: [name]." Once the EA started checking the manuscript, the status changed to "Awaiting ED Assignment." At this stage, the EA goes through the paper and ...
Quick change to Awaiting Reviewer Selection While this typically means that the manuscript is awaiting peer review, because the status changed so quickly after submission, this probably refers to the internal review, which is about aspects such as a match with the journal's scope, the quality of the writing/presentation, and the research at a ...
You have three queries. Let's take them one by one. Meaning of 'Awaiting Editor Assignment' This means that your manuscript has cleared the admin check, that is, it was found matching the journal's scope and also adhering to the journal's guidelines, apart from a cursory check of the novelty and quality of the study.
Awaiting Editor Assignment: Multiple editors may be assigned to your submission, depending on the journal's workflow. This status typically means your manuscript is awaiting assignment to an editor after the initial review of the submission. Depending on the journal's workflow, this status could also indicate when the editorial office ...
2. Awaiting Editor Assignment: Your article has passed initial quality checks by the Editorial Production Assistant and is in the process of being assigned to an appropriate Editor who will evaluate your article for scope, quality, and fit for the journal. Papers that do not meet these criteria will be rejected. 3. Awaiting Reviewer Selection
After peer review, the editor will consider feedback from the reviewers and then make a decision about the article. The decision letter is delivered to the author via email. There are three basic types of decisions: Accept, Revise, and Reject. No matter which decision you receive, be sure to read the entire decision letter carefully.
一、审稿流程及状态. 对于IEEE旗下不同的期刊，其对应的审稿流程以及审稿状态大体相同：. (1) Awaiting Admin Processing: 这是稿件顺利投出后的第一个状态，此时稿件由期刊秘书处理，如果稿件有问题，那么秘书会直接拒掉；如果形式审查没问题，秘书会将稿件送 ...
The manuscript awaiting the assignment of an editor for more than two-and-half months is both a bit long and unusual. It's more common to have a challenge finding peer reviewers, unless with this journal or for this paper, the review is to be done internally. If that's not the case, the journal is having a challenge assigning an editor to ...
My manuscript submission status in manuscriptcentral changed from 'Awaiting Reviewer Assignment' to 'under review' last three days ago. But today suddenly the status changed back to ...
The manuscript status was changing back to "Under Review" perhaps due to one of following reasons: Some of the reviewers that initially accepted to review the manuscript have now declined to review it due to their unavailability. Therefore, the Assigned Editor (AE) has now sent the manuscript back for peer review with a new set of reviewers.
First Steps. Initially your manuscript will go through stages such as "Awaiting Admin Checklist" and/or "Awaiting Editor Assignment" depending on how new submissions are initially checked on the journal. These stages tend to be moved through fairly swiftly as they are just the editorial team checking that your submission is suitable for ...
Account Setup and Maintenance. Your account on the journal's ScholarOne Manuscripts site may be created in one of two ways. The journal may create your account and e-mail you instructions on how to login. Some journals may include account information along with the invitation to review.
The editorial hierarchy varies from journal to journal. Eic usually signifies the Editor in chief. Once initial check up is done on your manuscript, the EIC will screen your manuscript to check if it fits the scope of the journal and if it is of sufficient interest to the journal's readership. He will then assign a AE or an academic editor who ...
Each journal's site has a unique web address that should be provided to you by your site Admin via e-mail. To access the site, click the link within the e-mail or enter the web address (URL) in
What these statuses could mean is that the AE has had a look at your manuscript and has made a tentative decision on it. To get a second opinion, they have referred the manuscript both to the ME and to the peer reviewers. The Awaiting CE/Reviewer Scores status also means that the AE has assigned the basic number of peer reviewers required for ...
My manuscript status changed from 'Awaiting Technical Editor Scores' to 'Awaiting AE Recommendation,' but the same day, it went back to 'Awaiting Technical Editor Scores.' The following day, it changed back again to 'Awaiting AE Recommendation.' Please help me understand these status changes.
Also known as: technical check, initial QC (AIP), admin checklist (IEEE), Awaiting Editorial Office Processing (ScholarOne), quality check (NPG) Typical duration: A few workdays. Editor assignment or invitation. Based on the topic of the manuscript and suggestions by the authors, an editor is assigned to handle the manuscript.
1 Answer to this question. Answer: It is difficult to estimate how much longer you need to wait. Once the completed reviews come in, the Associate Editor (AE) evaluates them and gives his recommendation to the EiC. The EiC gives the final verdict based on the AE's recommendation. Since the reviews have come in, the AE should ideally not take ...