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A manuscript, from submission to print

One submission, the states it passes through, and every way it can leave

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ManuscriptOne submitted paper, followed from the moment it arrives until it is inprint or out of the process.SubmittedUploaded and assigned a number. Nobody has read it yet.Desk rejectedit is out of scope, or the ethicspaperwork is missing and cannot beproducedRoughly half of everything thatarrives leaves here, within a week.ScreenedAn editor has checked scope, formatting and ethics approval.Rejectedthe reviewers agree the work does notstand upSent back for revisionthe reviewers want changes largeenough to need a fresh readIt goes all the way back to Submittedrather than to Screened: a revisedmanuscript is screened again, becausethe changes can move it out of scope.Under reviewWith two or three reviewers, who have six weeks.AcceptedThe editor has taken it. Nothing about the content changes after this.Proof corrections neededthe author finds an error in theproofsTypesetPublishedAssigned a DOI and out. The manuscript stops here.