Timeline for Double blind peer review when paper cites author's GitHub repo for code
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| Aug 9, 2019 at 11:50 | comment | added | NichtJens | @Abigail Well, the change log could be obfuscated easily ... It's what was proposed here already. | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 19:52 | comment | added | Peteris | @NichtJens as a reviewer, the system is more so that I can avoid being unintentionally biased - I won't try to look up the authors, because I don't care, however, if I'd see a name that I recognize on top of the paper or in the github url, there's nothing I can do to unsee it. | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 16:11 | comment | added | NichtJens | OK, I see what you mean. Thanks for clarifying. | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 15:54 | comment | added | JoshuaZ | @NichtJens The point of double-blind peer review isn't to make it impossible for people to strip the blinding out, but to make it more difficult without some effort by the reviewers or authors. No system is perfect, and the system does need to operate with some minimal assumption of ethical behavior on the part of the reviewers, including not going out of their way to deliberately find who the authors are. | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 15:43 | comment | added | NichtJens | Exactly! Wouldn't that be a problem for double-blind reviews as well? EDIT: Apparently it is: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2018/01/15/… | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 15:41 | comment | added | user2768 | @NichtJens Equally, the referee can drop a sentence-or-two (from the paper) into Google and find the preprint. As noted in another comment, the veil of author anonymity is easily broken and editors are well aware of that. | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 15:37 | comment | added | NichtJens | If the referees wants to, this is obfuscation is easily circumvented: take any non-trivial part of the code (one expressive function name or comment is enough) and drop it into google. | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 8:35 | history | edited | user2768 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2019 at 8:19 | history | answered | user2768 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |