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1. Awaiting Editorial Production Assistant Processing

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.

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

Your article meets the Journal’s scope and has been approved for peer review. The Editorial Team are in the process of finding suitable external expert reviewers that are available to review your article. Your article may also be sent to relevant Associate Editor’s for internal review. For most articles, a minimum of two reviews are required. Articles can be sent to multiple prospective reviewers before the required number are secured.

4. Peer Review in Progress

Your article has secured the minimum number of required reviewers. Peer reviewers are given 2 weeks to submit their review of your article. On the occasion that a reviewer withdraws from the process, the Editorial Team will begin the reviewer selection process again.

 5. Awaiting Editor Decision

Your article has now received the minimum number of reviews required to make a decision. The Editor will take into account the expert reviewers’ opinions to make an informed decision of accept, reject or revise.

6. In Production

Your article has been accepted and you will receive an email to confirm. Your article will move through the final quality checks and in to Production where it will be processed for publication. You will be emailed by the Production Editor with a timeline and be provided with a link to a platform called Publishing at Work where you can continue to track your article’s progress. More information about the Production process can be found here .

论文重投后一直在awaiting reviewer selection的状态是什么原因？

如果状态显示“等待分配审稿人（Awaiting Reviewer Assignment/Selection）”，则手稿很有可能会被送审。

让我们了解一下投稿之后，稿件的状态是如何变化的。论文投稿后，必须先经过编辑筛选。如果它符合期刊选择标准并且是原创作品，那么当编辑开始寻找审稿人时，状态将从“编辑处理中（With editor）”更改为“等待分配审稿人（Awaiting Reviewer Assignment/Selection）”。

“等待选择审稿人”状态意味着编辑正在寻找同行评审（该学科的专家）来审稿。如果稿件是新提交的，则意味着编辑正在搜索如上所述的一组审稿人，但是如果稿件是重新提交的，则有两种原因导致这种状态。一个是最初审阅过手稿的审稿人现在联系不上了，另一种可能是编辑正在寻找新的审稿人，以便对稿件有新的、额外的看法。

此外，状态更改为“等待分配审稿人”，这意味着编辑已经为论文确定了潜在的审稿人，现在已经发出邀请。每本期刊都有自己的标准，规定了评估稿件所需的最少审稿人数量。因此，当必要数量的审稿人接受邀请之后，状态将会更改为“正在审稿（Under review）”。如果选定的审稿人拒绝审稿邀请，编辑就必须寻找新的审稿人并且发送审稿邀请，则此状态更改可能需要更长的时间。

不要担心，这是很正常的一种状态。

这是进入邀请审稿人，并等待分配审稿人的阶段了，应该说，这个阶段是不可控的，不仅仅是你控制不了，连编辑也控制不了的。

一般每本期刊都会有审稿人资料库，编辑会邀请合适的审稿人来审阅，但是如果审稿人不回复或者忽略掉，这个周期就长了，或者说拒绝了，编辑就得去邀请其他审稿人，直到有人同意为止。

既然是重投，那么可能之前的审稿人换了，所以必须要找新的审稿人，这个周期不一定多长，有可能很快，也有可能要等一段时间。

如果你有合适的审稿人，也可以推荐，但是是否参考就是编辑的事情了，一般除非是实在找不到合适的，才有可能接受，或者你推荐的审稿人是本领域的大佬。

审稿人这种事情，有的时候全靠运气，淘淘论文就见过有的作者遇到的审稿人就是他引用文献的作者，对方给了不少指点，然后很顺利就接受了，这种经历也是没谁了。

所以还是耐心等待了，编辑会看情况处理的。

邀请审稿人，并等待审稿人同意的一个阶段。

编辑会同时邀请多位审稿人，看有几位最后同意邀请，然后就开始外审了。

后来怎么样了？我也快两个月了

论文上一轮二审后给的决定是resubmit，一共两位审稿人，一审大修后，其中一位审稿人已经同意发表，另一位审稿人还有三个问题（问题不大，没有明确指出哪里有误，只是提出了一些质疑，我们都可以回复的那种），但是最终的决定是resubmit。重投之后学术编辑还是原来的，但是投递后状态是Awaiting Reviewer Selection，这个是要重新找审稿人的意思吗？

作者最后怎么解决了，我也是awaiting reviewer selection两个月了，还没消息

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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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