Help! npj breast cancer has ghosted all communication. They have had my manuscript for months. I can not get anyone to respond. Does anyone have suggestions? I have even gone to other Nature journal editors for help but no luck!
Help! npj breast cancer has ghosted all communication. They have had my manuscript for months. I can not get anyone to respond. Does anyone have suggestions? I have even gone to other Nature journal editors for help but no luck!
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Send an email (or, better, via the submission system) saying you withdraw submission and submit somewhere else. You don’t need a reply, once you’ve sent a withdrawal email you are free to go elsewhere.
Last time I saw something like this it was due to a showdown between the publishers and editors, and it wasn’t until a year later that it all became public, when a new set of editors restarted operations. There is no predicting how long it could take if something like this is happening.
It could be more innocent than this, but if editors and Editor-in-Chief fail to reply, assume the worst.