/g/ is fucking useless, can anyone from /sci/ help me?
I've submitted an article to a journal back in July, and in late September I got an accept with minor revision, with three great reviews. I addressed all the reviewers comments and submitted a revision in mid October. First it was "under review" in manuscript central, which I thought was just either the editor in chief or the assistant editor, but then it went from under review to "awaiting reviewer selection" for some weeks and now it has been "under review" for 5-6 weeks since then. I assume it's undergoing a new full review?
I was wondering two things:
1) How long does a minor revision usually take? Is it normal that it goes back to the reviewers instead of just the editor?
2) How likely is a potential reject at this point?
The reason I ask is because I don't know what to focus on right now. I have another conference paper that was recently rejected, which I could focus on rewriting and submitting somewhere else. However, if the journal paper is accepted then I don't really need to publish the conference paper, since most of it is included in the (much longer) journal paper. My alternative is to assume that the journal paper goes through and just start writing up my dissertation, but I hate loose ends like this and my big fear is that the journal paper might get rejected or stall for a long time.
I've only ever published to one other journal before, and in that case I was invited (and the paper was an extension of a conference paper), so the review and revision process was a lot shorter once it had left the editor's desk. The field is CS btw, I guess that's relevant.
Pic semi-relevant.
I've submitted an article to a journal back in July, and in late September I got an accept with minor revision, with three great reviews. I addressed all the reviewers comments and submitted a revision in mid October. First it was "under review" in manuscript central, which I thought was just either the editor in chief or the assistant editor, but then it went from under review to "awaiting reviewer selection" for some weeks and now it has been "under review" for 5-6 weeks since then. I assume it's undergoing a new full review?
I was wondering two things:
1) How long does a minor revision usually take? Is it normal that it goes back to the reviewers instead of just the editor?
2) How likely is a potential reject at this point?
The reason I ask is because I don't know what to focus on right now. I have another conference paper that was recently rejected, which I could focus on rewriting and submitting somewhere else. However, if the journal paper is accepted then I don't really need to publish the conference paper, since most of it is included in the (much longer) journal paper. My alternative is to assume that the journal paper goes through and just start writing up my dissertation, but I hate loose ends like this and my big fear is that the journal paper might get rejected or stall for a long time.
I've only ever published to one other journal before, and in that case I was invited (and the paper was an extension of a conference paper), so the review and revision process was a lot shorter once it had left the editor's desk. The field is CS btw, I guess that's relevant.
Pic semi-relevant.
