I have first submitted my article to "Journal of material ..........." (SCI indexed) more than one year before. The first review was a major revision, then after submission of revision, within two months, I have received a minor revision. Which I have submitted within 10 days, before 6 months I have received a positive feedback of article but small changes were still required. Further after making those changes I have submitted the article before more than five months. Now I have mailed twice to the editor (1 month before and 10 days) but not getting any response. What should I do?
Perhaps the editor is still waiting to receive the final revisions from all the reviewers before announcing the final decision. It is also possible as one of the reviewers has requested additional changes, or simply there are major disagreements between the recommendations given by all the reviewers, thus requiring a special procedure in the recommendation evaluation panel. However, I think 5 months is a long enough time to get the final answer, it would be good if come back with a question. Good luck!
Perhaps the editor is still waiting to receive the final revisions from all the reviewers before announcing the final decision. It is also possible as one of the reviewers has requested additional changes, or simply there are major disagreements between the recommendations given by all the reviewers, thus requiring a special procedure in the recommendation evaluation panel. However, I think 5 months is a long enough time to get the final answer, it would be good if come back with a question. Good luck!
You may request the editor to make decision in a week or to withdraw the manuscript.
I have already mailed a gentle reminder yesterday following your advice. I'll wait for 10 more days for a response.
Hi,
I suggest first that you enter the journal's submission site to check the status of your paper. Observe when it was last sent to a reviewer, wait until one month has passed, and if you do not get an answer by then, you could approach the editor with a query about your paper.
I wont suggest you to withdraw after 1 year. You search for the personal email id of the editor and mail him/her in that id regarding your problem. I got immediate response following this.
It is possible that one or more of the reviewers was not available for a new round of reviews and so the editor needed to invite a new reviewer who needed time to understand all the revisions and discussion so far. This happened to me once and the new reviewer agreed for acceptance after taking a couple extra weeks to review everything again.
If you are not hearing from the editor, perhaps there is a new editor or s(he) is very busy. Not hearing news for a month+ after third round is unusual for any journal. Make sure you are emailing the correct editor for your paper - it may not be the listed editor-in-chief for your paper.
the editor might be waiting to get the final verdict from all the reviewers..usually SCI indexed journals, a research paper may be sent to more than couple of reviewers. And all the suggestions from the reviewers are taken into account.. U can wait for sometime.. Or else reminding editor through mail is another option..
Editor promptly reply to corresponding author, are you the one. If not, request to the corresponding author to send follow up email.
On my complain to all the emails associated with the journals, Journal has asked me to submit the paper again to a new editor, and finally now I have received an acceptance.
I recently had an interesting experience relevant to this conversation. I submitted a paper to a mid-tier (Scopus-indexed) journal in my field back in June 2018 and got a decision of "accept after minor revisions" with ~15 comments at the beginning of November. My team did the revision and resubmitted the paper about 3 weeks later, but it was not marked as "accepted" or asked for more revisions even a month later. I asked what was going on and the editor told me that they would give me the official "accept" decision once they were gathering the papers for the issue that my paper would be printed in (~90 days before) and that it'll be May-June 2019 before I hear for my paper - but not to worry. This seems to be typical for this journal and apparently nothing to worry about, fingers-crossed.
may be editor wait for reviewer response to make final decision or wait for next issue
Thanks to Editor. Communicate manuscript in some other journal.
perhaps the reviewers differed in many issues and becomes hard for them to give vadict.
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