Do you support the blind review of papers ?
Should author name be appeared in review process?
Does it improve the quality of research ?
Does the current non-blind protocol result in fair review?
As a reviewer I do not see any reason why the author/-s should not appear in the review process. It should and does not influence the tasks of a reviewer at all.
My personal intention is to be as objective as possible when reviewing a paper. I do not care about names or organisations that submitted the paper.
And I do not think that blind reviewing will improve the quality of research.
First of all, we need to clarify what is understood as "quality of research"? It seems to be rather complex. Just consider publishing a high-quality paper in a low ranking journal. Impact factor is often taken as a measure for quality. Or simply count the numbers of publications and just consider a large number of publications as high quality research. Achieved awards and grants maybe also taken as signs for high quality of research.
But in my opinion, scientific output is only one aspect of high quality research. The surrounding field in the lab should also be considered to determine quality of research. High quality could also mean to achieve very good results without specific instrumentation or extremely expensive analysis equipment, but utilizing the available equipment by developing new ideas and ways to advance their capabilities.
Back to the task as reviewer: I am asked to review a paper with its results in the context to up to date literature and current scientific research. So from this process improvement in paper writing, presentation and discussion of results etc. can be achieved if authors learn from their review processes. And that is just one part of quality research improvement as I see it.
Kind regards
Peter
Dear Peter,
You are one of the best reviewers ,
Is it right to remove traffic lights just because some drivers obey the rules?
First of all, I am definitely not one of the best - but I doing my job as reviewer to the best of my knowledge and capabilities.
I do not really get your point. Traffic lights are still necessary even if drivers obey them. Those that disobey traffic lights might cause accidents and cause traffic jams. A green light from a reviewer means, job as author well done according to the publishing rules of the journal. A red light requires additional work and means that the paper does not reach the standards for publication.
Do not forget, reviewers receive guidelines for the reviewing process, provided by the editors of the journals. Of course, every single reviewer has his own specific ideas about a "good" paper. But the general notion is to follow these guidelines in the evaluation process.
Kind regards
Peter
I mean if you don't care about the name of the authors it does not mean that the other reviewers do the same !
I can see many papers which are being published just based on the names not the contents.
If the review process become blind then the name impact would decrease!
Such a general statement - I see many papers .... - is not acceptable. It is based on your personal rather subjective view on a rather limited number of papers, mainly in your field of research I would guess.
Transition to a general statement about the influence of names on the review process should not be doneso easily. How do you know that reviewers just decide on names, not on content? Have you seen all of the reviews? Have you looked into different disciplines?
And if other reviewers care about names instead of content I cannot confirm - at least from my narrow view in my field it is not the case.
KR
Peter
Have you looked into different disciplines?
Have you seen all of the reviews?
How do you know that reviewers just decide on content, not on names?
Ok - I think this is the end the line. It is getting personal. I get the feeling that you are frustrated with reviews you received. You asked questions, you received answers. It is your problem if you do not like my answers.
BTW: About my CV. I studied and majored in Physics and English. After several years I switched into Chemistry. So a slight view into at least three different disciplines is available.
The question has not the same accepted answer among the researchers, as a result some journals has single blind-review process and others adopted double blind review process. We may discuss the advantages.disadvantages of both polices. With the names on the paper, it could bias a bit the reviewer before fully reading the paper.
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