IEEE，EI，SCI 投稿过程中有哪些状态？时间大概多久

Posted 2023-04-01

没有投过IEEE和EI，只说说投稿SCI期刊的经验。不同的期刊投稿方式、过程、状态大致相同，但审稿时间差距非常大，几天到一年、甚至几年的都有。对于大部分期刊，从投稿到接收（或拒稿）大概在1到6个月可以完成。

现在大部分SCI期刊都是同行评议(peer-review)型。投稿给编辑部后，编辑转发给相关领域的几个审稿人（通常是2-4个），审稿人审稿后给出意见发回给编辑，编辑综合各审稿人的意见和自己的意见，作出决定。不同期刊有不同的论文类型，大致包括full article、communication、review，以及牛人受邀写的文章等，通常communication较full article容易发些，而且审稿周期也短些。

投稿的大致流程是这样的（不同期刊、不同出版商略有不同）：

按照要求把论文正文、cover letter和相关信息都放到期刊网站的一个投稿系统上。完成后，投稿状态显示“Submitted to Editorial Office”或类似字样。
投稿后，期刊编辑部会给通讯作者发email，通知签署版权协议，投稿状态可能会改为"Forms Awaiting Completion"或"Submissions Waiting for Author's Approval"，也可能不改，取决于不同期刊。完成后，状态改回“Submitted to Editorial Office”或改为"Submissions Being Processed"。这个过程也就一两天就会完成。
然后技术编辑会审阅论文格式，如果格式不对，打回修改。这个过程也不会很长，一周之内肯定能完成。
通过技术编辑后，管学术的编辑先大概看一下，如果文章不符合期刊主题，或者文章实在太烂，会直接拒稿，但拒稿信措辞通常很婉转，类似于“不是你不好，只是我们不合适”、“你是个好人，肯定可以找到别人的”之类的。拒稿后状态会改成"Submissions with a Decision"或者"Manuscripts No Longer Under Consideration"。这个过程大概一周之内也能完成，所以你的文章如果投稿一周多后还没有消息，应该就是通过编辑这一关，送审了。我最快的一次，签署版权协议后不到24小时就被编辑拒稿，悲催啊。
如果编辑觉得还可以，就会选择几个这个领域的同行（可能是你在投稿信息里推荐的，也可能不是，一般都是匿名评审，你不会知道审稿人是谁），发给他们审稿。审稿人完成审稿后会把意见发回给编辑。这个时候状态会维持"Submitted to Editorial Office"或"Submissions Being Processed"不变。这个过程短则几天，长则一年多，都有可能。不同期刊快慢不同。我之前的组里投稿，有的稿子两周就能完成初审这一步，有一篇这一步耗时13个月。网友在小木虫和http://medsci.cn上对每个期刊的审稿时间都有介绍，有时不是很准，但可以作为参考。
编辑收到几个审稿人意见后，会综合考虑，决定文章是直接通过，还是大修(major revision)，还是小修(minor revision)，还是拒稿。如果需要修改，会在给通讯作者的email里写清楚deadline，如果不需要重新做大量试验的话，会给60天左右的修改时间。这个时候投稿状态会变成"Incomplete Revisions and Resubmissions"。修改完成提交到投稿系统，状态变成"Revisions Waiting for Author's Approval"或者"Revisions and Resubmissions Received by Editorial Office"。
编辑收到修改稿，可以决定去留或者继续修改。如果编辑觉得不好决定，就会再次发给审稿人，这次的审稿人可能和之前的相同，也可能不同。这一步的时间一两天到几个月都有可能。投稿系统会重复显示之前的投稿状态。
如果万事大吉，通讯作者会收到接收信，投稿系统状态会改成"Accepted Manuscripts"或者"Submissions with a Decision"。
后面可能要签署一些协议，状态改成"Proof Ready for Review"，"Proof Comments Received"。一两天就搞定。
签完协议后，工作人员会进行校对和排版，需要几天到几周时间。根据投稿时的选择，文章可能在未校对、排版前就可被订阅者看到（这时读者下载的论文pdf排版很难看），或者只在之后才能看到。
校对排版后，出版社网站上可看到正式格式的全文。尽管这时读者下载的pdf文件排版已经正式了，但还没有正式刊号和页码。
几周后，正式出版。这时网页上和读者下载的pdf文件中，已经带有正式刊号和页码了。

可能现在还有很多期刊需要以email或者信件往来的方式投稿，不过我投过几个期刊，是几个主要出版商(American Chemical Society, ScienceDirect, Wiley, Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer)旗下的期刊，都是如上所述，在一个系统上完成投稿/修改过程。 参考技术A 你好，大部分期刊的投稿状态如下，供参考，时间就要看各个期刊了，不同的期刊千差万别。
1. Submitted to Journal
刚提交的状态
2. Manuscript received by Editorial Office
就是你的文章到了编辑手里了，证明投稿成功
3. With editor　如果在投稿的时候没有要求选择编辑，就先到主编那，主编会分派给别的编辑。这当中就会有另两个状态：
3.1. Awaiting Editor Assignment指派责任编辑
Editor assigned是把你的文章分给一个编辑处理了。
3.2. Editor Declined Invitation 也可能编辑会拒绝邀请，这就需要重新指定编辑
3.3. technical check in progress 检查你的文章符不符合期刊投稿要求
4.编辑接手处理后也会有2种状态
4.1. Decision Letter Being Prepared 就是编辑没找审稿人就自己决定了，那根据一般经验，对学生来说估计会挂了 1）英文太差，编辑让修改。 2）内容太差，要拒了。除非大牛们直接被接收。
4.2. Reviewer(s) invited 找到审稿人了，就开始审稿
5. Under review
这应该是一个漫长的等待。当然前面各步骤也可能很慢的，要看编辑的处理情况。
如果被邀请审稿人不想审，就会decline，编辑会重新邀请别的审稿人。
6. Required Reviews Completed
审稿人的意见已上传，审稿结束，等待编辑决定
7. uating Recommendation
评估审稿人的意见，随后你将收到编辑给你的decision
8. Minor revision/Major revision这个时候可以稍微庆祝一下了，问题不大了，因为有修改就有可能。具体怎么改就不多说了，谦虚谨慎是不可少的。
9. Revision Submitted to Journal
又开始了一个循环。
10. Accepted 恭喜了
11. Transfer copyright form 签版权协议
12. uncorrected proof 等待你校对样稿
13. In Press, Corrected Proof 文章在印刷中，且该清样已经过作者校对
14. Manuscript Sent to Production 排版
15 in production
　　出版中 参考技术B

状态方面没有什么可以说的，就是一些时间的程序不一样。

英文投稿模板

英文SCI论文投稿过程信件模板一览

一、英文SCI论文:最初投稿Cover letter

Dear Editors:

We would like to submit the enclosed manuscript entitled “Paper Title”, which we wish to be considered for publication in “Journal Name”. No conflict of interest exits in the submission of this manuscript, and manuscript is approved by all authors for publication. I would like to declare on behalf of my co-authors that the work described was original research that has not been published previously, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere, in whole or in part. All the authors listed have approved the manuscript that is enclosed.

In this work, we evaluated …… (简要介绍一下论文的创新性). I hope this paper is suitable for “Journal Name”.

The following is a list of possible reviewers for your consideration:

1) Name A   E-mail: ××××@××××

2) Name B   E-mail: ××××@××××

We deeply appreciate your consideration of our manuscript, and we look forward to receiving comments from the reviewers. If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me at the address below.

Thank you and best regards.

Yours sincerely,

××××××

Corresponding author:

Name: ×××

E-mail: ××××@××××

二、英文SCI论文:催稿信

Dear Prof. ×××:

Sorry for disturbing you. I am not sure if it is the right time to contact you to inquire about the status of my submitted manuscript titled “Paper Title”. (ID: 文章稿号), although the status of “With Editor” has been lasting for more than two months, since submitted to journal three months ago. I am just wondering that my manuscript has been sent to reviewers or not?

I would be greatly appreciated if you could spend some of your time check the status for us. I am very pleased to hear from you on the reviewer’s comments.

Thank you very much for your consideration.

Best regards!

Yours sincerely,

××××××

Corresponding author:

Name: ×××

E-mail: ××××@××××

三、英文SCI论文:修改稿Cover letter

Dear Dr/ Prof..(写上负责你文章编辑的姓名,显得尊重,因为第一次的投稿不知道具体负责的编辑,只能用通用的Editors):

On behalf of my co-authors, we thank you very much for giving us an opportunity to revise our manuscript, we appreciate editor and reviewers very much for their positive and constructive comments and suggestions on our manuscript entitled “Paper Title”. (ID: 文章稿号).

We have studied reviewer’s comments carefully and have made revision which marked in red in the paper. We have tried our best to revise our manuscript according to the comments. Attached please find the revised version, which we would like to submit for your kind consideration.

We would like to express our great appreciation to you and reviewers for comments on our paper. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thank you and best regards.

Yours sincerely,

××××××

Corresponding author:

Name: ×××

E-mail: ××××@××××

四、英文SCI论文:修改稿回答审稿人的意见(最重要的部分)

List of Responses

Dear Editors and Reviewers:

Thank you for your letter and for the reviewers’ comments concerning our manuscript

entitled “Paper Title” (ID: 文章稿号). Those comments are all valuable and very

helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with approval. Revised portion are marked in red in the paper. The main corrections in the paper and the responds to the reviewer’s comments are as flowing:

Responds to the reviewer’s comments:

Reviewer #1:

1. Response to comment: (……简要列出意见……)

Response: ××××××

2. Response to comment: (……简要列出意见……)

Response: ××××××

。。。。。。

逐条意见回答,切忌一定不能有遗漏

针对不同的问题有下列几个礼貌术语可适当用用:

We are very sorry for our negligence of ……...

We are very sorry for our incorrect writing ……...

It is really true as Reviewer suggested that……

We have made correction according to the Reviewer’s comments.

We have re-written this part according to the Reviewer’s suggestion

As Reviewer suggested that……

Considering the Reviewer’s suggestion, we have ……

最后特意感谢一下这个审稿人的意见:

Special thanks to you for your good comments.

Reviewer #2:

同上述

Reviewer #3:

    ××××××

Other changes:

1. Line 60-61, the statements of “……” were corrected as “…………”

2. Line 107, “……” was added

3. Line 129, “……” was deleted

    ××××××

    We tried our best to improve the manuscript and made some changes in the manuscript.  These changes will not influence the content and framework of the paper. And here we did not list the changes but marked in red in revised paper.We appreciate for Editors/Reviewers’ warm work earnestly, and hope that the correction will meet with approval.

Once again, thank you very much for your comments and suggestions.And here we did not list the changes but marked in red in revised paper.

We appreciate for Editors/Reviewers’ warm work earnestly, and hope that the correction will meet with approval.

 

Once again, thank you very much for your comments and suggestions.