The DIP Process

[James Blachly]

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.

> Until we have an army of competent reviewers, we can't consider 
> this.

Extending this analogy, these reviews are typically done by 
associate editor.