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I've not seen a major attempt to blind pre-prints, and given you have to remove some identifying information for blinding, I think that would be a tall order.
by Fomite 3y ago
I've not seen a major attempt to blind pre-prints, and given you have to remove some identifying information for blinding, I think that would be a tall order.
- eru 3y agoWhy would that be a tall-order? Seems fairly simple and straight-forward, doesn't it? You'd set up a server where people have accounts, but publishing pre-prints is anonymous by default, and identities can be revealed later. In the current peer review system, people already have to produce papers with those identifiers removed. They can do exactly the same in the pre-print world, can't they?
- Fomite 3y agoA great many papers in my field contain contextual details about the settings the studies were conducted in that would effectively deblind them. That sort of betrays the idea of a pre-print, in my opinion, because they should not depend on "Someday we'll come back and fix this".
- eru 3y agoHow does conventional peer review work for those papers?