Resolution or Revolution?

As contributors to academic journals, we expect our submissions to be treated with a certain amount of respect by editors and dealt with expeditiously; we want to see our papers published. An editor who is allowing a submission to ‘gather dust’ is not acting in the best interests of either their authors or their journal. I recommend that authors sometimes review their list of papers ‘in press,’ ‘in review,’ and ‘submitted,’ and those that have stopped moving should be withdrawn and submitted elsewhere. An editor who fails to give their contributors timely support is not deserving of their papers.