"Required Reviews Completed" &quot;Required Reviews Completed&quot; Is that normal that this status lasts more than one month after Major Revision?
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&quot;Required review completed&quot; means that the reviewers who were assigned to review your paper have all submitted their reviews. The next step is that the editor who is handling your paper should take a decision based on these reviews such as &quot;accept&quot;, &quot;reject&quot;, &quot;minor/major revision&quot;, or invite more reviewers.
It is a bit unusual that it takes 1 month after the reviews are completed. From my experience (as author of more than 200 papers and as editor-in-chief of some journal) it is usually more like a few days or a week but it can vary depending on the journal. There can be various reasons why there is a long delay such as the handling editor being very busy.
What you should do is to send an e-mail to the editor to let him/her know that your paper is waiting with that status for over a month. Write a polite e-mail and ask gently to check what is going on with your paper. I did that recently for a paper that was in that situation for 3 months... The editor told me that he was busy and since he was only a guest-editor he did not handle the job quickly, but after my e-mail, he processed it quickly. Don't send more than 1 e-mail because editors are usually very busy.