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It is nearly impossible to enforce double blind peer review because of the existence of online pre-prints (hosted on arXiv, SSRN, or just the authors' websites)
by nequo 4y ago
It is nearly impossible to enforce double blind peer review because of the existence of online pre-prints (hosted on arXiv, SSRN, or just the authors' websites). A referee can copy and paste from the text into DuckDuckGo and find the authors.
- rgbrgb 4y agoIn this case an easy 50% solution seems better than nothing. Some people would just comply with the guideline, some would not think of your workaround and it would make peer reviews a little more equitable even if many broke the rule.
- hedora 4y agoI think you are overestimating how much reviewers care which grad student wrote which paper, or who their advisor is. Reviewers are generally overworked (for other reasons), and the main goal is to be constructive and somehow not sound like an idiot (in front of the other reviewers, who might be subject experts and definitely know who you are!) in any of the pile of reviews you need to write after reading a pile of papers. Also, reviewers declare conflicts ahead of paper assignments, which makes accidents less frequent.