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Q: Are "editor invited" and "editor assigned" actually the same as "with editor?"
I submitted my paper to a BMC journal and it got rejected in this February. Later, I got approval from the editor to re-submit my paper.
The status is as follows:
- June 20: new submission
- June 21: editor invited
- June 23: editor assigned
My question is: What is the difference between "editor invited" and "editor assigned?” I was told by my friends that these two are almost the same as "with editor" and it's still unknown whether the manuscript has been sent for reviews. Is that true?
Once your manuscript is submitted to a journal, it first undergoes the admin check and then an Associate Editor (AE) is invited to conduct the initial screening of the manuscript. The AE can either desk-reject your manuscript or send it for peer review.
The status “Editor Invited” means an AE has been invited to handle your manuscript and the journal is waiting for her/him to accept the invitation. Once the editor has accepted the invitation, the manuscript status will change to “Editor assigned.” The assigned editor can now take a call on whether to send your manuscript for peer review. The status “With editor” implies that your manuscript has not been sent for peer review yet and the editor is looking for potential reviewers. Finding reviewers can take quite some time as reviewers are often busy with their workloads and might even decline invitations in some cases.
The status of your manuscript will change to “reviewer invited” once the editor finds potential reviewers followed by “reviewer assigned” when the reviewers accept the invitation. The status of your manuscript will change to “Under review” when your manuscript has been sent out for peer review.
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