At least two of the common review systems show "awaiting reviewer selection" if there is ANY reviewer invitation outstanding. That does not necessarily mean your paper is actually waiting on reviewers to be chosen. It often means we asked 6 people, 3 agreed, 2 said no, and 1 never responded to the request.
Do not email to ask about this. It's not helpful. It's most often a system glitch. And editorial board members have nothing at all to do with the reviewer selection process at most journals. Emailing them makes no sense in any scenario. Sociologist 74ce. Sociologist 4ce6. The names of these stages can, however, seem fairly vague and almost worse than no information at all.
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. 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, then the manuscript will move onto 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.
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. 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. 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.
There are, of course, many things that can cause delays to the process for more on that, see our earlier post here but the majority of manuscripts move from one stage to the next fairly swiftly. Guest posts should be between — words in length anything longer should be split into two parts and on a publishing related topic. More information about the Production process can be found here. The peer review process My paper has been accepted — what next? After submitting. In this section: The peer review process My paper has been accepted — what next?
The review process. After almost three weeks of being in Awaiting Reviewer Assignment, the status has changed to Awaiting Reviewer Selection. What does this mean? Actually, most journals use either of these statuses, not both, to indicate that they are currently seeking peer reviewers. However, some journals do seem to use both statuses to indicate a slight difference between the two.
Which is like this. For further insights, you may go through this related query by another researcher: Why does my manuscript's status keep changing from "awaiting reviewer selection" to "awaiting reviewer assignment"? So, great.
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