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Anyone good enough to peer review would probably know who did it. Research areas are often not that large.

• MikeNomad 11y ago
  Yes. When I was doing peer review work in my field (Mass Com), it took about a year to get the landscape sorted. That includes being able to ID people behind submissions, based on writing style. Unfortunately, I saw submissions get down voted not because of the content, but because of some long standing intellectual feud (I found this out after I became a sought-after "tie breaker." The journal editors figured out I was indeed casting votes based solely on the submission in hand).
• cschmidt 11y ago
  Not only that, but you inevitably self-site your earlier work in your later work. In most cases, the most cited author in a paper is the author of the paper itself. So just look at the last page of the paper, and you can probably tell who wrote it.