The corresponding author will receive an email confirming that the manuscript has been successfully submitted. If you are the corresponding author and did not receive a confirmation email, please check your junk mail or spam folder (confirmation messages are sometimes filtered into these folders, depending on your email provider) before contacting PAIN. After checking these folders, if you are still unable to determine the status of your submission, please contact the Editorial Office at [email protected].

You should expect to wait approximately 18 days for a first decision on your manuscript. Please keep in mind that this wait time varies, as it depends on the speed of reviewer and editor responses.

Please log in to EM as an author. New submissions appear in the "Submissions Being Processed" section. Revised submissions appear in the “Revisions Being Processed” section. Click to enter the appropriate section. Submission status is listed in the "Current Status" column. If you are not able to determine the status of your submission, please contact the Editorial Office at [email protected].