Or it could become a gameable review step like first line resume review. I think the only structural way to change research publication quality en mass is to c

Or it could become a gameable review step like first line resume review. I think the only structural way to change research publication quality en mass is to change the incentives of the publishers, grant recipients, tenure track requirements, and grad or post doc researcher empowerment/funding. That is a tall order so I suspect we’ll get more of the same and now there will be 100 page 100% articles just like there are 4-5 page top rank resumes. Whereas a dumb human can tell you that a 1 pager resume or 2000 word article should suffice to get the idea across (barring tenuous proofs or explanation of methods). Edit: incentives of anonymous reviewers as well that can occupy an insular sub-industry to prop up colleagues or discredit research that contradicts theirs.