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I can confirm that it is very easy to determine who your anonymous reviewers are in specialist areas. In one topic that I used to publish in, I could easily ide
by montecarl 9y ago
I can confirm that it is very easy to determine who your anonymous reviewers are in specialist areas. In one topic that I used to publish in, I could easily identify one or two of the three reviewers. The main tells are when the reviewer brings up their tangentially related niche interests (e.g. how does this compare to method X or have you considered the effects of <relatively obscure phenomenon>).
- kobeya 9y agoAlso in some cases (e.g. many conferences) you can know who the list of reviewers are. Just look up the program committee. Only a subset reviews your paper submission, but with the field of possible reviewers constrained to 10-12 people you personally know, it becomes very hard to hide.