The DIP Process

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/26/19 3:09 PM, James Blachly wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 19:49:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 2/26/19 2:45 PM, James Blachly wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 18:22:09 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> This is the case for all relevant submission processes I know of - 
>>>> conferences, journals, programming languages. A process of 
>>>> shepherding/assistance is not unheard of, but exceptionally rare.
>>>
>>> In my fields (medicine and genomics), it is extremely common that 
>>> high impact journals offer a pre-review/estimate of suitability to 
>>> authors prior to submission.
>>>
>>> For example, one does not typically submit to NEJM or Nature without 
>>> discussing with an editor first.
>>
>> Yah, I know of the process from my wife. There are quite a few 
>> differences between the fields. One is that in medicine a case 
>> presentation is in and by itself publishable material, and all the 
>> editor needs to do is assess the rarity and relevance of the material.
> 
> I am not at all describing “case reports,” and your thoughtless 
> dismissal of earnest feedback/suggestion really underlines the 
> criticisms others have leveled against you specifically, and perhaps the 
> process generally.

Didn't that escalate a bit quick? You wrote the goings in your field 
with no further argument as to how the process would be translated to 
our case. I shared the little insight I had, too, in expectation of more 
detail. How is one a earnest feedback/suggestion and the other 
thoughtless dismissal?