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Future innovations, like previous ones, are likely to be limited by the Principle of
Invidious Selection (Thorngate, 1988), which states that the merit of manuscripts will
always become more homogeneous as authors copy current winning formulas,
prompting the use of increasingly arbitrary review criteria. Even so, any innovations
that increase reviewer consistency and reduce reviewer effort while improving the
chances of publishing good articles and retaining talented authors are worth a try.
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