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Rejecting double-blind peer review (insidehighered.com)
2 points by lliiffee on May 31, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The purpose of double blind review is not to anonymize the work of well known authors - conferences, informal conversations, etc. guarantee that the work of established members of the community will be known, even before Google.

What double blind review does is give the unknown author a fair chance as there is always the outside possibility that it is the new work of a well known author that the referee has simply not seen yet.




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