Submission to ongoing scrutiny — the full path.

Stage 1 — Submission

The author prepares and submits the work along with required metadata and (in most cases) an Author Defense Statement.

The Defense Statement explains why the work meets the threshold for publication consideration. It addresses central claim, scope, coherence basis, falsifiability or contestability standard, evidence basis, known limitations, contribution weight, and any ethics, safety, IP, or confidentiality considerations.

A complete submission includes sufficient title, author identity, abstract or summary, body text, references where applicable, version/date information, licensing notice, rights statement, and required metadata.

Stage 2 — Initial Publication Gate

Every submission receives editorial review to determine whether it meets the standards for entry into the Lei A While publication record and the Open Post-Publication Review Chain.

Key Evaluation Areas (OPPR-C §§ 2.1–2.23)

• Editorial review and merit screen
• Scope and venue fit
• Completeness and presentation
• Author Defense Statement (when required)
• Merit, coherence, and falsifiability or contestability
• Scope control
• Evidence or formal support
• Contribution weight
• Method, evidence, and record integrity
• Citation and attribution
• Authorship and rights
• Publisher-only boundary compliance
• License version clarity (where applicable)
• Ethics, integrity, conflict-of-interest disclosure, and safety/IP/confidentiality
• Metadata and publication record readiness

Decision Categories

Governance Safeguards

• Every non-Fly decision requires a structured written rationale citing specific OPPR-C criteria.
• Maximum decision time windows are enforced (10 business days for Fly/Conditional Fly/Revise; 14 business days for Desk No-Fly/No-Fly).
• A lightweight internal second-look process is available for Desk No-Fly and No-Fly decisions upon author request within 7 business days.
• Editors must disclose conflicts and apply published criteria as written.

Stage 3 — Publication

Works classified as Fly (or Conditional Fly after corrections) are published into the Lei A While publication record and immediately enter the Open Post-Publication Review Chain. Publication includes appropriate metadata, licensing notice, rights statement, and review-chain status. The work becomes publicly visible and citable.

Stage 4 — Open Post-Publication Review Chain

Review Request and Participation

• Qualified individuals may request to review an eligible publication.
• Review participation may require identity verification, expertise disclosure, conflict disclosure, and agreement to conduct policies.
• A request to review does not automatically entitle a person to enter the held review record.

Review Standards

• Reviews may be positive, negative, mixed, corrective, limited, endorsement-oriented, or critical.
• Agreement with the author is not required.
• All submitted reviews pass a Fly / No-Fly review-integrity gate before entering the held review record.
• A review may Fly when it is substantive, ethical, evidence-bound, scope-aware, competence-aware, conflict-disclosed, and tied to the stated review criteria.
• A review may No-Fly for harassment, abuse, non-substantive dismissal, undisclosed material conflict, coercion, citation manipulation, or other defined integrity failures.

Attachment and Visibility Options

• Held reviews may be transmitted to the author.
• Public attachment requires agreement of the Center, the reviewer, and the author (unless a prior open-review agreement applies).
• Options include full publication, summary, anonymization, delayed attribution, embargo, or confidentiality depending on the applicable agreement.
• Authors may choose different display models (conventional endorsement listing or full public review dossier).

Author Response and Development

After review, the author may attach an Author Response Supplement, Post-Review Clarification Supplement, Correction Notice, or Reviewed Revised Edition. The purpose is to address weak areas, clarify disputed claims, narrow scope, correct errors, respond to reviewer concerns, strengthen falsifiability language, or provide additional supporting material. Corrective versions attach below the original record; the original remains visible.

External Citation Record

Authors may submit citation data for their published work, or the Center may attach verified citation records from multiple sources. These are listed as an External Citation Record or Citation Impact Supplement attached to the public chain. The mechanism is author-supported and Center-curated rather than dependent on any single commercial citation platform, allowing the Center's record to serve as a more persistent, verifiable, and equitable account of a work's reception. This is particularly valuable for foundational, theoretical, and replicative work, which often receives uneven, delayed, or incomplete tracking in dominant citation databases.

Record Integrity

• The original publication remains visible unless formally withdrawn, retracted, or superseded under publication-ethics policy.
• Negative, mixed, limited, or critical reviews that passed the integrity gate remain part of the chain unless removal is required for narrow ethical, legal, or safety reasons.
• Published reviews themselves become reviewable objects in the public scholarly record.

Stage 5 — Ongoing Status and Chain Maintenance

The public chain identifies whether a publication is current, corrected, clarified, supplemented, revised, superseded, withdrawn, retracted, or removed. Status changes are dated and linked to the relevant records. The chain continues to evolve as new reviews, responses, and updates are added over time.

Summary of Key Guardrails