May 1, 2015

Links about signing reviews

As our experiment in trying double blind lite continues, I found this post on Small Pond Science about signing or not signing reviews, with the extended comments, very interesting: http://smallpondscience.com/2014/03/26/why-i-prefer-anonymous-peer-reviews/

But I do have to say, as someone who reads all of the reviews that leave the office, anonymous reviewers have been no less diligent and professional than the reviewers who signed. And the very few that have serious problems are caught in the editorial process and addressed.

Three links mentioned in the comments are ones I've read and liked in the past, so I thought I'd repeat them here: