Presubmission Inquiries: Problematic, Counterproductive, and Unnecessary

Mastering the scientific peer review process: tips for young authors from a young senior editor

“…Hence, zeroing in on a specific journal a priori and fitting the Introduction to the aims and scope of the journal can save you time and effort from editing your Introduction later on to match the journal’s scope. A friendly, but believingly important, suggestion is to avoid sending pre-submission inquiries to the journal editors, unless it’s stated otherwise in the author guidelines for some specific article types, because they may be problematic, counterproductive, and unnecessary (Levesque 2019 ). Selecting your target journal in advance can also facilitate collaborations, especially for article types other than original research articles (e.g.…”

The Journal of Youth and Adolescence at 50: Completing the Move Toward a Curator Model of Editing

“…These efforts also included reaching out to authors before they would even submit (or even begin the hard work of moving findings to publishable form). To give authors a better sense of acceptable manuscripts, increased information was provided to prospective authors so they could better understand the journal's expectations (Levesque 2007a(Levesque , 2019a. These initiatives were meant to work in tandem, but some were much more successful than others.…”