it is probably a step backward that submitted articles no longer get anonymized in many journals. The logic behind this was that reviewers would know, or look u

it is probably a step backward that submitted articles no longer get anonymized in many journals. The logic behind this was that reviewers would know, or look up, the author anyway. In effect this was giving in to corruption. I completely agree that this is a terrible change. Of course, reviewers are often able to work out whose work something is. Even before widespread preprints on the web, citations were often a giveaway. But plenty of reviewers won’t do it, on principle, and even for those that do, that fact that they’re obviously not meant to know is a very strong signal that they shouldn’t take it into account in their decision.