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Use when calibrating expectations for the Human Relations (HR) review process — the editorial scoping screen, double-anonymous developmental review, decision types, timelines, and when a sibling journal is the better route. Sets expectations; it does not draft the rebuttal (see humrel-rebuttal).

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# Review Process (humrel-review-process)

## When to trigger

- A submission is in (or about to enter) the HR pipeline and you want to calibrate odds and timing
- A decision letter arrived and you must read it correctly (R&R vs. reject vs. resubmit-as-new)
- You are deciding whether to persist at HR or reroute to a sibling
- A coauthor expects fast quantitative-style turnaround and needs the developmental reality

## How HR review actually works

HR runs a **two-gate** process. First, an **editorial scoping screen**: the handling editor assesses fit and whether the manuscript shows a plausible "unique and substantive theoretical contribution." HR is explicit that "suitable data are a necessary but not sufficient feature to get to full peer review" — so a competent empirical paper with no theoretical advance, or one that reads as a sibling-journal paper, can be returned *before* reviewers see it. Second, if it passes, it goes to **double-anonymous peer review** (typically multiple reviewers) and a developmental cycle. Reviews engage the argument seriously and tend to push on theory, contribution, and craft as much as on method.

## What HR decisions usually mean
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