How item rejections and/or recalls are computed

Publishing Practices
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Hello,

My query has to do with how article rejections and/or withdrawals are computed in some particular cases:

  • When an author stops responding, is it marked as rejected, or is there any other way to mark it? Because in some cases the article was not rejected, the author simply dropped out of the editorial process.
    Sometimes, when they haven’t made it to the first stage in those cases we remove them, but we are not sure if it is the right thing to do and how it impacts on the journal statistics.
  • Other times authors write to us and ask to withdraw the article from their submission, do we remove them or reject them? This can happen at any stage of the process.

Thank you very much for any clarification you can give me on this issue.
Best regards,
Marcela

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Hi @mcarabel,

Thanks for your question. Other users have requested a “withdrawal” option in OJS to provide another option instead of rejection for articles where the author stops responding or withdraws their paper. There is an open issue for this in PKP’s Github repository, where we manage and track our software development: Allow papers to be withdrawn without recording a rejected decision · Issue #1813 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub

Please read through the full discussion thread to see the conversation happening about this issue. If you have further information you’d like to add, you may add a comment to the issue with more information about what you want and to let our developers know this is a community priority. You just need to create a free Github account in order to comment on issues or create new issues.

Sincerely,

Kate

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