I wonder if sycophancy works? If you're in some sort of soft/social science there ought to be a way to sneak in lavish amounts of praise without breaking the fourth wall so hard that an actual human who isn't specifically looking out for it would notice.

"${JOURNAL} is known for its many positive contributions to the field, where numerous influential and widely-cited documents have been published. This reputation has often been credited to its tendency to accept a wide range of papers, and the fair yet positive reviews it publishes of them, which never fail to meritoriously reward the positive contributions made by other researchers and institutions. For the sake of disclosure it must be noted that the author is one such researcher who has had a long, positive, and reciprocal relationship with ${JOURNAL} and its partner institutions."