While knowing who the authors are can cause bias, hiding behind anonymization (as a reviewer) can as well. I think publishing the reviews (and who reviews) woul

While knowing who the authors are can cause bias, hiding behind anonymization (as a reviewer) can as well. I think publishing the reviews (and who reviews) would help a lot (some fields do this). Science is really a dialog. The authors are putting forth part of the dialog and the reviewers are reflecting on it and giving their opinions. Hopefully publishing names next to reviews would minimize crappy reviews (often by the most senior folks). However the other problem is there are not enough qualified reviewers to go around and I could see many opting out of putting their name next to a review. But, we're likely better off. There also often isn't a clear cut line between "good" and "bad". Almost all papers have flaws and putting those out in the open for others to improve upon, or at least acknowledge, would help move humanities knowledge forward.