[Journal] Peer Review: Blind?

Micha Silver micha at arava.co.il
Tue Feb 9 01:23:06 EST 2010


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
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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:
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>> 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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