{"id":12840,"date":"2022-02-27T14:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T14:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/q_and_a\/what-does-a-status-change-from-required-reviews-completed-back-to-editor-assigned-indicate\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T19:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T19:18:43","slug":"what-does-a-status-change-from-required-reviews-completed-back-to-editor-assigned-indicate","status":"publish","type":"q_and_a","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/what-does-a-status-change-from-required-reviews-completed-back-to-editor-assigned-indicate","title":{"rendered":"What does a status change from required reviews completed back to editor assigned indicate?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2654,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[2424],"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-12840","q_and_a","type-q_and_a","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manuscript-status"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat does a status change from required reviews completed back to editor assigned indicate? | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I've\u00a0submitted my paper to a Springer journal. For the first week of submission, the status was "with editor" and then it changed to under review for one week. For the next two days,\u00a0reviewers were assigned and then the status again changed to under review for 10 days, and then finally to "required reviews completed". The status "required reviews completed" was shown\u00a0for one week and then it changed once more to with editor again. It has been this way for the last 10 days. Now my question is if rejection is the verdict,\u00a0wouldn't the editor\u00a0immediately send the rejection letter?\u00a0Why is the editor\u00a0taking so much\u00a0time to decide? 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The status "required reviews completed" was shown\u00a0for one week and then it changed once more to with editor again. It has been this way for the last 10 days. Now my question is if rejection is the verdict,\u00a0wouldn't the editor\u00a0immediately send the rejection letter?\u00a0Why is the editor\u00a0taking so much\u00a0time to decide? 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