It depends on the journal. Anyhow it is probably useless anyhow because most scientist refer very often to their own work or that of their research group. If yo

It depends on the journal. Anyhow it is probably useless anyhow because most scientist refer very often to their own work or that of their research group. If you have some knowledge of the research field, it is usually not too difficult to guess who the authors are. Referees are normally anonymous. But once they start advising to insert some references to some obscure and/or irrelevant articles...