It's not that easy. From papers cited it may be easy to deduce who is the author. Typically, there are projects resulting in many papers, not single ones - so i

It's not that easy. From papers cited it may be easy to deduce who is the author. Typically, there are projects resulting in many papers, not single ones - so it is natural, and desired, to refer to previous works. Additionally, it may be easier to find if an author is not committing self-plagiarism (sending the almost the same thing to a few different places). More on that topic: http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/625/open-versus-blind-reviewing-process http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/625/open-versus-...