Re:Understanding Bias in Peer Review
by Vinnl on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:43AM
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Yeah, double blinding is ineffective in almost every field. A good article on double blind peer review is [1].
Being aware of the bias is one thing, although I'm afraid that indeed only partially mitigates it. Making peer reviews public after the fact could help somewhat in allowing people to judge for themselves and make the biases less damning, likewise for post-publication peer review. In any case, that would make it more feasible to do research on peer review and perhaps find better solutions.
Being aware of the bias is one thing, although I'm afraid that indeed only partially mitigates it. Making peer reviews public after the fact could help somewhat in allowing people to judge for themselves and make the biases less damning, likewise for post-publication peer review. In any case, that would make it more feasible to do research on peer review and perhaps find better solutions.
[1] http://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/2017/10/31/the-fractu...