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How would using pseudonym for an article impact career? How can I still gain credit? [duplicate]
I am a student in the humanities and for my Masters degree dissertation I did an ethnographic research on a rather politically sensitive topic. I would love to publish an article or two about my ...
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Does posting paper online anonymously prevent me from publishing it in journal?
I am a high school student and I am trying to publish my first research paper in mathematics.
However, I have already had my full paper posted without author information on the website of another ...
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What is "double blind" reviewing?
I have been visiting some journal websites and I found that
some of them state that they use a double blind review process.
What does it mean?
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Can an associate editor of a journal see my name?
Recently I received a rejection from a top journal. But when the editor in chief sent me the rejection email, she included the name of the associate editor that handled my paper. This associate editor ...
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Should I preserve anonymity or strictly follow a journal's instructions?
I'm submitting a manuscript to a journal using LaTeX for the first time. This journal is a little unique in that it features open source software packages, and you must provide a link to a public ...
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Who is responsible for "blinding" a paper for double-blind review?
Is it my responsibility as author to remove author and affiliation before submitting the paper to a journal?
In my opinion it is, but then I read this blog article by an Editor-in-Chief of some ...
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How do I write a cover letter for a journal that has a double blind review process when I need to reference my previous conference paper?
My research area is in Computer Science.
I am going to submit a paper to a journal, that has a double blind review process. The paper builds upon our previously published work in a conference paper. ...
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Is it appropriate to ask an editor to have double blind peer review even if journal does not offer such an option?
The journal that I have chosen for submitting my paper doesn't use double-blind review
(double blind review means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and ...
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Should the editor share the names / institution information of authors with the reviewers
For most journals, the reviewer is aware of the names and the institution that the paper is coming from. IMO, if the paper is from a top institution, the reviewer might judge it differently than the ...
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Why don't all disciplines follow a double-blind review system?
I'm new to the journal publishing world, and I can't but help wonder why the review process isn't completely blind? By blind, I mean the reviewers don't know who performed the research or (more ...
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