Can an editor's excuse of remaining busy keep an article awaiting for a year for his preliminary reading to be match for his journal? After a year of holding back, the editor said - I don't see the paper a match to the Journal! Need some serious discussions on whether or not this claim of the editor is credible. What is the point of his being still the editor since he is busy and can't read an article for a year. How may the author be compensated for the wastage of a year on the article? Note that, after submission of the article, the editorial office has been asked by the author every two months if the article entered the review process at all. They said the article was with the editor!
Post the name of the journal and the so called 'Editor' so that others can avoid this journal.
Is there any conflict of interest? Different persons working on the same topic?
In case the review process is not initiated within a reasonable period, it is advisable to withdraw your manuscript from the said journal.
There are many reasons for intentional delaying and hope the others will share their views.
That's a shame - and it is not ok. My hunch is that we are dealing with a journal that is not highly ranked, and do not belong to one of the most well-known publishing houses ... ? There are many journals that are new, and in the business for the sake of profit, rather than to help make visible new and exciting research; it appears that you have been dealt a bad hand.
A year is a long time for the editor to decide if the manuscript is relevant to the scope of the journal. A reasonable timeframe especially for high-impact factor and highly ranked journal is 2-3 months.
pull it. its a sunk cost at this point. Knowing what you know would you submit to this journal now? if the answer is no, then you know the answer. Find another home for it.
Hopefully the editor is not trying to replicate the study before telling you that the article doesn't meet the scope of their journal.
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