Should you email a journal after 3 weeks kindly asking why a manuscript hasn't been sent for review, or is this too soon? Am I simply being impatient? It's a computer science/biomedical journal. Don't want to seem pushy, yet it seems like it shouldn't take 3 weeks to see if a manuscript is within scope and decide whether to send it for review. It's been sitting at the &quot;with editor&quot; status with no status updates.
Probably too early. Don't assume that the paper isn't evaluated yet. Most likely it was judged in scope and they are simply looking for referees.
Wait a little bit more.