Double-blind in light of the internet: A note on author anonymity
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Summary, in English
This paper analyses the credibility of author anonymity that is provided by a double-blind review process. It is argued that authors have strong incentives to disseminate information about their papers before publication. A sample from two economics journals, both using double-blind review processes, provides evidence that author-revealing information of most accepted papers is available on the Internet before the review process is finished. The difficulty and cost of identifying authors of unpublished manuscripts from which author identity has been stripped, were examined in an experiment where subjects were paid according to their identification performance. The vast majority of authors could be identified within 60 s.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2011
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
24-26
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Information Economics and Policy
Volym
23
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Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Economics
Nyckelord
- Information policy
- Scientific publication
- Experiment
- Review process
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1873-5975