Q: Why my scholarone submission has both Awaiting Second Opinion and Awaiting Reviewer Selection as status?

Thank you for your question.   

Having two statuses for a single manuscript is uncommon. However, we have explained the statuses below:

Awaiting Second Opinion: This means that the associate Editor (AE) has had a look at your manuscript and has made a tentative decision on it. They’ve also referred the manuscript to the Managing Editors (ME) and to the peer reviewers to get a second opinion.

Awaiting Reviewer Selection: This is ideally the first stage of the peer review process where the assigned Editor will select some suitable experts to invite to review your manuscript.

Perhaps, if this continues for some time without changing, you may want to consider writing to the journal editor seeking clarity.