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- From: kristoff@net.bio.net (David Kristofferson)
- Newsgroups: bionet.journals.note
- Subject: Re: Author's Rights
- Message-ID: <Dec.22.08.31.02.1992.708@net.bio.net>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:31:03 GMT
- References: <92356.110515FORSDYKE@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <Dec.21.15.21.10.1992.3147@net.bio.net>
- Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Biology
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- kristoff@net.bio.net (David Kristofferson) writes:
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- >I found it interesting when looking for academic jobs a long time back
- >that faculty I spoke to at some small schools felt that reviewers were
- >excessively critical of their work versus papers that originated from
- >"name" schools. Of course, there may be other reasons (as I am sure
- >scientists from name schools might quickly reply), but I was wondering
- >whether or not any journals ever review papers either completely blind
- >(no mention of the authors' identity and affiliation) or partially
- >blind (e.g., no mention of the affiliation)? This might be an
- >interesting experiment?!?
-
- I probably shot this one off too quickly as I realized a few seconds
- after sending that most authors' propensity to reference their own
- past work far more than that of others would make blind reviewing
- rather difficult unless one were to gut the paper of such references
- which would not be practical in most cases.
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Dave Kristofferson
- BIOSCI/bionet Manager
-
- kristoff@net.bio.net
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