Temporal Blindness
Core eaiou policy — enforced at infrastructure level.
The policy
Submission dates in eaiou are cryptographically sealed at the moment of receipt. They are never displayed to reviewers, editors, or the public during evaluation. Papers are sorted and discovered by quality signal (Q score) only.
What is sealed
- The exact timestamp of submission receipt
- The acceptance timestamp
- The publication timestamp
Sealed fields carry no database index by design. Indexing temporal fields creates a timing side-channel that allows bias to infer submission order. The schema enforces this structurally, not by policy alone.
What is not sealed
The author's identity (name, ORCID), the paper content, AI disclosure, and keywords are all visible to reviewers. eaiou is full-context, not double-blind. The only thing withheld is timing.
Why
Recency bias is one of the most structurally embedded biases in academic publishing. A paper that arrives first is more likely to be cited, indexed, and discovered — not because it is better, but because it arrived first. eaiou treats this as a system design problem, not a reviewer attitude problem. The fix is in the infrastructure.
Bias can see time. Justice cannot.