What does "Awaiting Assignment to Batch" mean? My paper was accepted a week ago, at that time the status in the ScholarOne manuscript center changed from &quot;accept&quot; to &quot;awaiting production checklist&quot;. They also said I would receive an email regarding the proof check. However, till today I haven't received any email. Today the status again changed to &quot;Awaiting Assignment to Batch&quot;. I am curious what is this mean? According to the journal, it takes 2 weeks(on average) to get published &quot;online pre-print&quot; from the acceptance date. I am just worried if I am missing something.
First, congratulations!!
&quot;Awaiting Assignment to Batch&quot; is part of the accepted workflow. Once accepted, some journals have a set of tasks that a manuscript goes through. One of the steps available (and being used here) is batching and sending of the manuscript to the journals production service. It will wait until a predetermined condition (so many ready to go, or a regular timed interval), then be added to a large zip file (along with others in the &quot;batch&quot;), and sent to the production server.
Hope this helps!
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