Manuscript status changed from "Reviews completed" to "Editor assigned" I have been confused with the present status of my manuscript whose status follows the following timeline:   Manuscript initially submitted through Editorial Manager (Springer): 25 Jan 2017 Under Review: 27 Feb 2017 till 9 Jun 2017 Reviews completed: 10 Jun 2017 till 22 Jun 2017 Editor assigned: 22 Jun 2017   The journal is in the field of Computer Science and Computational Mechanics (Applied Computer Science).  My inferences from the above strange timeline:   The reviews have been completed and the system administrator or the journal manager assigned the editor (who is assumed to be associated with it earlier) to take care of the review reports and make a call. The number of review reports is not sufficient. It would be re-reviewed and handled by another editor. It is a software issue or a bug.   I have the following questions:   Whether is my inference correct? As one can see, it has been 6 months already. Is it too early to send a gentle reminder to the editor-in-chief to look after my manuscript? Is such a timeline of manuscript 'strange' at all? (Although it is difficult to answer this unless the editorial manager software is understood properly.)   Related posts and questions:     My question is different as the timeline does not follow the traditional journal workflow as discussed in the question
What does the typical workflow of a journal look like? What steps does a manuscript typically go through from submission to publication (or rejection) in a typical journal? How are these steps referred to, in particular by editorial systems, and how long do they each typically take?  Note that this question is about the typical situation and hence not about:   Journals with an atypical workflow, e.g. those that allow for an instantaneous reviewer–author interaction. Exceptional steps or rare occurrences such as withdrawal or .   This is a canonical question on this topic as per . Due to its nature, it is rather broad and not exemplary for a regular question on this site. Please feel free to improve this question.
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Will not the learner itself decide the importance to assign to each word/combination of words?  I'd be grateful for your thoughts on what value the IDF adds, if any. What is a good focal length for street photography? With a long lens you don´t disturb people but you are left "out of the scene", while with a short focal lens you are "inside the scene" but you may disturb people. What is a better alternative for street photography? Delayed choice entanglement swapping: why are Alice & Bob's measurements useless without Victor's? Why is gravity such a unique force? My knowledge on this particular field of physics is very sketchy, but I frequently hear of a theoretical "graviton", the quantum of the gravitational field.  So I guess most physicists' assumption is that gravity can be described by a QFT?  But I find this weird, because gravity seems so incredibly different from the other forces (yes, I know "weirdness" isn't any sort of scientific deduction principle).  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