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What is the difference between Awaiting Reviewer Confirmation and Awaiting Reviewer Invitation? [duplicate]
I submitted a manuscript to a journal, and the status changed from Awaiting Reviewer Selection to Awaiting Reviewer Confirmation. It has been 1.5 months with no change in status. I'm curious if we are ...
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Is scientific progress hindered by page limit and page format? [closed]
There is a trend in STEM: things get more and more complicated over time.
There seems to be two things that are not matching up with the pace of our time: page limit, and page format.
Page limit: for ...
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The status of my manuscript changed from Undergoing Initial Checking to Under review but the ED: not assigned? [duplicate]
I submitted a manuscript to one of the weliy journals. The status was “Undergoing Initial Checking” on Scholarone system. After 3 days, the status changed to “Under Review” along with "Ed: not ...
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Is it common for a journal to reject (or accept) a paper before all reviewers have submitted their reports?
Suppose that a paper is submitted to a journal and that the editor decides to sent it out to two reviewers. Each reviewer agrees to return the report in X months; however, it turns out that one of ...
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What would be the next step after revising a manuscript? [duplicate]
After receiving a report on a manuscript from the referee, then the revised version must be submitted to the editor. In this step, will the revised version be sent to referee again to check that or ...
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Do the referees see the profile of authors?
I am a mathematics PhD scholar (particularly in number theory). I have a question in mind.
In general, a PhD scholar doesn't have much publications (or no publication) upto a certain stage. Suppose I ...
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How to highlight changes made in the manuscript as part of a revise and resubmit?
We have a journal paper that got correction requests and need to be resubmitted. The changes need to be highlighted in the manuscript. How do you mark the changes? Is changing the text color enough? ...
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Requirement on referees for a peer-reivew
I'd like to know if there are any requirements for referees to review a paper in a peer-review journal. For example, for an editor in another journal, is it OK to be a referee for the paper? I think ...
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Paper got rejected and meanwhile a similar paper was submitted to another journal
I have been working for 1-2 years on a manuscript to be submitted to a journal with a relatively high impact factor. The journal has pretty strict rules about the length of the paper which is ...
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When submitting a major revision, does it matter whether the revised manuscript or the response to reviewers appears first?
I submitted a major revision for an article to a World Scientific journal today. However I am in a confused state.
I had to submit two documents: 1. Revised Manuscript, 2. Response to Reviewers, both ...
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Journal that rejected paper to disclose identity of referee to the next journal?
I've just had a paper rejected by a certain math journal -- nothing new so far, but the journal made a (rather unusual?) offer in the rejection email, and I'm not sure what to make of it.
They said ...
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Are journals allowed to publish papers without a final approval from a reviewer?
Is it true that in most peer-reviewed journals the editorial office can decide to publish a paper without at least one reviewer approving some version to be published as is? I am asking whether they ...
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Submission status changed to "submitted" after "awaiting reviewer scores" [duplicate]
I submitted my article to a SAGE journal roughly six weeks ago. The status of the submission was "awaiting reviewer scores" for four weeks and few days ago it changed to "submitted"...
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Timeline of "Quick opinions" in math journal refereeing
Some years ago a fair number of mathematics journals started to ask for one or more "quick opinions" by experts on a received manuscript before sending it out for peer-review (with the ...
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Confusion regarding manuscript status in IOP's article tracking system and ScholarOne Manuscript System [duplicate]
I had submitted a manuscript in an IOP journal a month back. In the IOP's article tracking system, the status changed from "1st reviewer agreed to report" to "Editorial Assessment" ...