In my personal experience, peer review follows fashion, and fashion is generational. Couch your results in the fashion of the day, cross your t's, dot your i's,

In my personal experience, peer review follows fashion, and fashion is generational. Couch your results in the fashion of the day, cross your t's, dot your i's, and you're all set. Publish frequently, in innocuous little bites. Wait for the old guard to retire before publishing the synthesis that brings your prior publications together into a new and coherent whole. Now you're the old guard. Repeat.