Publishers are not dealing with an incremental increase in workload associated with peer review, but rather a crush of manuscripts that must be fed through processes and procedures that may struggle to keep ahead of this tide. When this is the case, publication editors and staff are often forced to quickly weed through submissions and try to identify any “possible” candidates that can be processed into the peer review process, triaging out ‘poorer’ or ‘less relevant’ manuscripts early in the process. Low accept rates in this context are often symptomatic of rapid rejection before formal peer review can occur. A.
