I have a paper that has been “awaiting admin processing” for more than two weeks. The same thing happened at another journal and my paper was ultimately withdrawn, I assume because the editor got backlogged and just chose to desk reject everything (a colleague had a paper also sent back by the same journal at literally the same time as I).
If it’s going to get desk rejected I’d rather know quickly so I can resubmit somewhere else. Should I contact the journal?