Withdrawn articles

Feature Requests
1

Hi to all,

Withdrawn articles

When the author wishes to withdraw his article from the reviewing process, the only way we see at the moment is, that he informs the Editor and the Editor chooses the decision „decline“. Or is there another way of handling this? (we are using OJS 3.1.1.2)

In addition e.g. for statistics, we think it is a difference whether it was a “declined” due to a negative judgment on the quality or scope by an editor/reviewer, or because of an authors withdrawal. Is it planned for the future to have a workflow for this?

Thank you so far
Sabrina

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+1 for this. There should definitely be a distinction between these.

  • Published
  • Declined
  • Withdrawn

Also I think it would make sense that the editor could take a withdrawn article and continue working on it later if needed.

3

Bumping this topic!

Does anyone know if a Withdrawn option is available yet?

4

Hi, I’m also interested in an option to allow the authors to withdraw their submission.
Thanks
Sleipnir

5

Hi,
In addition, article retraction should be made available for the editors.

Regards
Bilal

6

Thanks for the feedback. I have updated our issue on withdrawing submissions to reflect this discussion and assigned it our Community Priority label.

7

hello! is this still not available?

10

Checking to see whether withdrawing a submission is now available.

11

Is anyone here involved in the code development for this action? I have read the thread in GitHub and the discussion stopped a couple of years ago, even though the proposal was very advanced.
We are having several of these cases in our journal and I really would like not to delete the item completely, since it would be good for us and the author(s) to keep the record.
Thanks.

12

Is there any new information on this topic? We also miss this function: there is no option for authors to withdraw an article themselves, and editors cannot set a corresponding status. You have to consider the articles as rejected, which is very unsatisfactory (also for later analyses). From our point of view, the articles should remain in the system but be given the status ‘withdrawn’. Thank you in advance for a reply

13

Hi all,

We have not yet been able to prioritize the development work. The best way to stay up to date is to watch for the status of the issue linked above to change.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team