Physics has the same strategy: Important and timely results appear in the four-page (now four-page-ish) PRL and the long-term paper wrapping it up appears in PR

Physics has the same strategy: Important and timely results appear in the four-page (now four-page-ish) PRL and the long-term paper wrapping it up appears in PRD (or PRA, PRB, PRC, or PRE). Only drawback is that people primarily read PRL, so people try to squash long-form results into PRL alone.