[Journal] Peer Review: Blind?

[Scott Mitchell]

Yeah, I brought this up last time, after seeing double blind  
instructions somewhere in the default instructions in the OJS  
interface. The consensus then was that we wanted just "single" blind  
reviews.

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Scott Mitchell
smitch at me.com


On 2010-02-09, at 8:13, Dan Putler <dan.putler at sauder.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Double blind is the case where the reviewer does not know who the
> authors of article are, and the authors do not know who their  
> reviewers
> are. This is typical review process for academic journals (at least in
> the social sciences). Single blind is where the reviewers know who the
> article authors are, but the authors do not know who the reviewers  
> are.
> I've never been part of a single blind review process, and I've seen  
> my
> share from both sides.
>
> Dan
>
> On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 08:23 +0200, Micha Silver wrote:
>> On 09/02/2010 03:31, Daniel Ames wrote:
>>> Actually I think that was my question (or both of us). I agree  
>>> though
>>> that blind is a good idea - particularly in our small community.  
>>> This
>>> allows a reviewer to give more constructive critiques than he/she
>>> might otherwise... -Dan
>>>
>>>
>> I seem to recall that we discussed this question about a year (?)  
>> ago.
>> THere's something called "double blind" which I think we thought was
>> unnecessary.
>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Sunburned Surveyor
>>> <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rafal raised and important question that I wanted to bring before  
>>>> the
>>>> group. Do we want our peer reivews to be "blind"? I'm not an  
>>>> expert,
>>>> but I believe this means the author receives the peer review  
>>>> comments
>>>> without identifying the reviewer. It sounds like this is pretty
>>>> standard practice.
>>>>
>>>> Is that how we want to operate the peer review portion of the  
>>>> Journal,
>>>> or is there another model that people want to follow?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Landon
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> Dan Putler
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> University of British Columbia
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