The DIP Process

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

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.