In view of an inquiry into the reasons and countermeasures for the withdrawal of papers before publication, by using Excel, a statistical analysis has been made of a total of 59 articles that had been withdrawn from the publication system of the Journal of Hunan University of Technology (referred to as the Journal) from 2018 to 2023 (as of October 26, 2023), followed by a further analysis of the reasons for authors’ withdrawal from multiple perspectives by consulting the CNKI database, comparing similar unpublished literature in the submission system, and making phone calls or email follow-up to the author. The main reasons for the withdrawal of papers before publication include author’s “multiple submissions of the same manuscript”, insufficient revision of manuscripts with numerous flaws, long publication cycles, and inability to meet the author’s graduation and professional title evaluation requirements, etc. Therefore, editorial and publishing units should try to resolutely eradicate “multiple submissions of the same manuscript”, standardize the manuscript processing process so as to shorten the review cycle, and give priority to online publication, thus shortening the publication delay.