Some journal's give contact details of editors with their Phone nos. on their website. Is it fair to call directly the editor to ask the status of manuscript?
Thanks Emmanuel Ifeanyi Obeagu for your reply. But after submission of manuscript I didn't get confirmation mail of editor. That only I wanted to ask editor. I waited for 20 days. The journal doesn't have online submission system. I should atleast get to know whether my paper is with them or not.
I thinks that facilitate communication with journal, such as like your case , it does n't lead to any bias , editors mostly consider the advice of reviewers not authors.
As an editor for several journals, I had never received phone calls from the authors but I received a very few emails. I would definitely not appreciate editorial inquiries on the phone and it's very unlikely your call to an editor will be useful...