Re:ArXiv preprint server plans multimillion-dollar overhaul
by santaclaus on Saturday July 02, 2016 @01:16AM
(#12021457)
Well, I find CS venues (conferences and journals) to be about 50/50 in terms of blind or not. Also, while it will certainly vary subfield to subfield, once you are familiar enough with an area you can pretty confidently guess what group (if not what exact authors) are behind any given paper. I bet it would be pretty easy to cook up a automated paper un-anomymizer based on the body of published work out there already.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:ArXiv preprint server plans multimillion-dollar overhaul
by noobermin on Saturday July 02, 2016 @02:37PM
(#12023409)
In my field of laser physics, there are some really, well known lasers, so if your paper talks about this or that facility and cites this "monumental work by X group" you can easily gather who is the author. Not to mention (yes heaarsay) of at least one person in my group who refereed a paper, harshly criticizing it paper only to have the editor come down and say "accept this paper anyway." Academia has some good parts but it's as political as anything, if not more so.