Dear Mohammad

First of all, you have to wait for the minimum time to take final decision (that is generally 10-12 weeks for Elsevier). You don’t worry about change date with same status. Your task has been finished since you submitted and even you cannot assume whether reviewer is rejecting or accepting.

There are several possible reasons for date change:

1. When Editor invites Associate Editor or Handling Editor (Status: With Editor)

2. When Associate Editor or Handling Editor accepts or rejects the invitation. Editor again invites new Associate Editor or Handling Editor if earlier Associate Editor or Handling Editor rejects invitation due to Unavailability, Out of Area, Conflict of Interest etc. (Status: Under Review)

3. When Associate Editor or Handling Editor invites reviewers. (Status: Under Review)

You will get mail at this stage with subject: Your manuscript paper id has been sent for review

4. When Reviewer accepts or rejects the invitation (Status: Under Review)

5. When Reviewer submit their response (Status: Under Review)

6. When reviews are conflicting then Associate Editor or Handling Editor invites another reviewer (Status: Under Review)

7. When Associate Editor or Handling Editor recommends his decision to Editor (Status: Ready for Decision/With Editor)

You will get mail at this stage with subject: Reviews complete and decision pending for your manuscript paper id

8. When Editor takes final decision. (Accept/Reject/Minor/Moderate/Major)

This is the whole story of Elsevier Review Process.

You have submitted on September 6. Please wait for exactly 3 months (till December 6) and then send a gentle reminder regarding status of your paper to Associate Editor or Handling Editor if still under review. I hope everything has been cleared to you.

Wish you a good luck with your research paper.

Best Wishes

Sukhpal

Hi,

This happens sometimes in the Springer journals submission site. It could be that the editors found more reviewers to the paper and the dates refers to assigning the paper to a reviewer.

Hi Mohammad,

There are several possibilities for why this happens. Each submission management system is different. But this could be due to the submission gets re-assigned to several types of editors (for example, from assistant editor, to triage editor, to handling editor, ... etc). This could also be due to technical check, plagiarism, and external peer review invitations being done by different people on the editorial team. Regardless, such movement generally is a good thing and means that it is being handled actively.

Thank you Avishag Gordon and Fares Alahdab for your reply.

To make it clear, I should say that firstly, on 6th September, the status was "WITH EDITOR" and on 9th September went "UNDER REVIEW"

Then, although the status (i.e., UNDER REVIEW) has not changed so far, the status DATE have changed 3 times, 9 Oct., 9 Dec. and 20 Dec.

One reason for the delay may be that the Editor sent for review to a reviewer but after few days the reviewer denied to review and the editor sent it to another reviewer. Another reason may be that one reviewer suggested to reject but another reviewer gave positive comments in which case the editor sent it to third reviewer.

Dear Mohammad

First of all, you have to wait for the minimum time to take final decision (that is generally 10-12 weeks for Elsevier). You don’t worry about change date with same status. Your task has been finished since you submitted and even you cannot assume whether reviewer is rejecting or accepting.

There are several possible reasons for date change:

1. When Editor invites Associate Editor or Handling Editor (Status: With Editor)

2. When Associate Editor or Handling Editor accepts or rejects the invitation. Editor again invites new Associate Editor or Handling Editor if earlier Associate Editor or Handling Editor rejects invitation due to Unavailability, Out of Area, Conflict of Interest etc. (Status: Under Review)

3. When Associate Editor or Handling Editor invites reviewers. (Status: Under Review)

You will get mail at this stage with subject: Your manuscript paper id has been sent for review

4. When Reviewer accepts or rejects the invitation (Status: Under Review)

5. When Reviewer submit their response (Status: Under Review)

6. When reviews are conflicting then Associate Editor or Handling Editor invites another reviewer (Status: Under Review)

7. When Associate Editor or Handling Editor recommends his decision to Editor (Status: Ready for Decision/With Editor)

You will get mail at this stage with subject: Reviews complete and decision pending for your manuscript paper id

8. When Editor takes final decision. (Accept/Reject/Minor/Moderate/Major)

This is the whole story of Elsevier Review Process.

You have submitted on September 6. Please wait for exactly 3 months (till December 6) and then send a gentle reminder regarding status of your paper to Associate Editor or Handling Editor if still under review. I hope everything has been cleared to you.

Wish you a good luck with your research paper.

Best Wishes

Sukhpal

My paper was submitted to elsvier and then the editor replied that my paper is acceptable with some corrections. After i resubmitted to the journal the status twice changed to under review. What are the possible reason behind it?

The paper is to be reviewed by the reviewers again in terms of the comments to see if you have addressed them correctly.

For three reasons :

1- Reviewer comments added to the database.

2- New reviewer has been invited since the previous reviewers fail to respond on the given time.

3- Editor might log in to check the database of the paper.