The sad truth is that it matters quite a bit for getting your papers into a good journal. It's just human nature (may even be subconscious) that reviewers are a

The sad truth is that it matters quite a bit for getting your papers into a good journal. It's just human nature (may even be subconscious) that reviewers are a bit kinder on a paper with a Harvard professor as the last author than one with a professor from the University of Southern Mississippi. Some journals have tried double-blinded peer review, but it's difficult to do well. You have to remove important bits from the paper, like "this builds on our previous study [3]" or "our software has previously been verified and validated, see [6]".