The manuscript was "sent back" because the handling editor considered the title and some other details inappropriate, and asked as to change them with regard to the journal guidelines. The comments, however, came through a wrong understanding of the paper - the changes requested by the editor would have made the title completely wrong and misleading. We politely explained to the editor our point of review, and also made some changes in the abstract to avoid confusion of the reader, but the editor simply insisted on his changes, especially for the title. We then contacted the editor-in-chief, who first reacted positively and was interested in our point of view, but he then did not take any action. Therefore, we decided to retract and sent it to another journal, where it was immediately sent out for peer-review.
Also, the initial time before the editor ever saw the paper was more than 1 month, which is very long.
