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Also one thing that surprised me is that peer reviews are not made blind to the reviewer. Some things will always be made obvious specially if it's a small fie

Also one thing that surprised me is that peer reviews are not made blind to the reviewer. Some things will always be made obvious specially if it's a small field and you know who is doing what. But if you are reviewer and the 'very famous and respectable' colleague is co-authoring the paper you are reviewig, you are much more likely to dismiss any unclear or incorrect aspects of the paper. It would seem like a really simple step to just redact any aspects of the paper that would give away names, locations, etc.

pmyteh 8y ago
This is very field-dependent. In mine (political science) it's routine to blind the reviews in both directions. In others, papers are reviewed with the author's name and affiliation on the top. There is a further issue that if you're in a small-enough (sub-)field you probably know what other people are working on and can effectively unblind the authors anyway.