Thank you, @bozana! We will ask our system administrator to take a look at the Submissions in the DB table.
Re: Declined Imported Submissions:
I am just hypothesizing, but I wonder if this use case would generate the declined imported submissions:
Suppose we added back issues (with older publication dates) to the journal, but some were accidentally added twice, for a variety of possible reasons. One submission is published, and the duplicate has to be deleted. Since there is no longer a way to delete directly from the All Active queue, those submissions that are going to be deleted have to have an editor assigned and be declined, then deleted from the Archived queue.
The editor confirms that the Editorial Activity used to be fairly accurate in 3.3.0.8, so it’s a change in the way that 3.4.0.5 handles these metrics from the way that 3.3.0.8 handled these metrics. (Though I’m not sure that the variety of metrics in the Editorial Activity menu was the same between the two versions.)