Questions tagged [anonymity]
Questions concerning systems where the identity of those involved is intended to be unknown, such as in double- or single-blind peer review.
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Contacted by COI PC
I have a little bit of a weird situation. In a submission to conference (which is anonymous), I marked a member from the PC as conflict of interest (COI) due to personal reasons (rivalry). The chairs ...
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Ask Area Chair/Editor to reveal one of the reviewers of my paper [duplicate]
We submitted a paper to a venue and got accepted. The venue is single-blind, reviewers know our names, but we don't know who they are.
During the review process one reviewer made very good suggestions ...
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A journal asks me "Do you want to get recognition for this review on Web of Science?" Anonymity and benefits?
Recently, I submitted a review to a major journal in my field. They asked me during the submission process, "Do you want to get recognition for this review on Web of Science?"
How does this ...
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How to approach a continuation paper in such a way that promotes / ensures anonymity
I recently had a paper accepted into a conference, and am now working on a continuation of that paper. In the first paper I used one tool, while in this second paper I will use two tools. In the new ...
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Is it appropriate to try to contact the referee of a paper after it has been accepted and published?
I have a paper that was refereed, accepted, and published. The referee's report was overwhelming positive and enthusiastic about my paper and results.
Now that the paper is fully published, is it ...
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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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How to reference a pilot study in an academic paper written in a foreign language?
I presented a paper at a conference and later the conference published it in the (non-academic) conference journal. It was done in a foreign language. Afterwards, I used the same idea but a different ...
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What is the purpose of making authorship of scientific papers public? [closed]
Anonymity has the advantage of removing unnecessary bias. It draws the reader's attention on the subject without allowing it to check the authors' affiliations out.
Public display of authors' names ...
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Conference optionally requests prior versions and reviews - should I submit this info?
Besides the anonymized manuscript of the paper, a conference in my field (HCI) "highly encourages" to also submit
the venue and ID where the paper was previously submitted (and rejected)
a ...
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Is it fine for an author to ask the editor to disclose the name of an anonymous peer-reviewer if the review was exceptionally helpful?
I teach a seminar where I organize an anonymous peer review procedure among the students.
One of my students gave another colleague an exceptionally helpful feedback. The recipient was so grateful and ...
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How to deal [as a reviewer] with a paper in peer review that breaks anonymity
I work in the field of organization theory and labour sociology and to this point of my career, I have reviewed about 4-6 papers. I have been asked by a journal to review a paper. The journal's scope ...
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How to cite statements in book based on unverifiable sources
While reading books on Indian politics (not aware if this happens outside as well), frequently the citations for a particular claim is some interview with a person being talked about. In this case, ...
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Handling collaboration requests from the authors of double-blind reviewed papers (after submitting the review)
(I apologize if this is a duplicate, but I was not able to find any similar case on AcademiaSE)
I am finding myself in a very odd and unpleasant situation. The subject is "ethical" peer ...
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My paper has been criticized by an anonymous commenter online; what can I do?
There are many websites who let people anonymously attack studies just to disparage the authors. An example is Pubpeer (I confess that I had never heard of it before being warned by a colleague).
If I ...
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How to deal with blinding when the new paper is a continuation of one's own prior research? [duplicate]
I wrote a paper (P1) which went through peer review and got published. The paper introduced a new graphical user interface (GUI) primitive.
I then wrote P2, which extends P1, turning it into a new ...
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How to report a misconduct in methods in an article published by a top journal anonymously?
I found a potential wrong application of machine learning validation methods in one paper recently published in Nature Energy, which is the best energy journal (>50 impact factors). The authors ...
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Should I suggest my sources as reviewers?
Authors are often asked to suggest reviewers for their article. In my own experience, the principal domain experts I can suggest are often the authors whose work I have cited, but suggesting them ...
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Why is peer review anonymous?
There have been a number of questions asked here, such as this question, or this question. The first question asked about how to find the authors of peer reviews. The second discussed the benefits of ...
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'Expert' interviews of academics - Consent and Ethics
I am conducting a research trip to another country where i will meet with academics (individually and as groups), industry professionals and other experts to explore different aspects of a particular ...
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Reproducible, open, transparent, ethical Research when confronted to (patient) data anonymization : is it at all possible in practice?
A lot of Hype goes in reproducible, open and transparency for data analysis theses days in some fields mores that other. The code is to be share as well as the dataset.
How to achieve this in a ...
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Does the GDPR cover reviewer blacklists, and if so, how? [closed]
I've served as an area chair for several conferences. Following the review period, the program chairs asked the area chairs to submit to them an annotated list of problematic reviewers. Mostly these ...
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Ethics of "saving a publication for later" through anonymous submission? [closed]
This is more of a thought experiment than a problem. I just want to know how ethical is it.
Suppose a student discovered a very cool theorem/result that would yield a very good academic paper in a ...
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Can I submit a paper under an alias so as to avoid trouble in my country?
I have done research on a topic that is very sensitive in my original country. I want to submit a paper to a (well-rated) Computer Science conferences, but I do not want to use my real name or ...
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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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Reviewer signs name on review. Should the editor censor?
Say a reviewer writes something like
This paper is [yada yada blah blah].
Sincerely,
Professor John Smith, Big Name University
Should the editor just forward the review to the authors because ...
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Why don't we mention the names of reviewers?
When a paper appears in a science journal, why do not mention the names of the reviewers so that we, as readers can get an idea about the seriousness of the paper?
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Diverging coauthor opinions - publish anonymously or don't publish at all?
This question is a splinter of an earlier question, posted separately upon advice from commenters.
The background is:
(1) I audited a course at an institute I don't belong to. As part of the course,...
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Writing homework essay anonymously to avoid controversy
I am attending a course at a neighboring institute purely out of interest. Neither credits, nor grading of any kind are involved.
As part of the course, we are required to work in pairs (assigned, ...
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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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How to provide an anonymous copy of work online?
It may seem odd, but I need to put an anonymous part of my work (an algorithm) online.
Well, it should be available online as I want to refer to it in a single-blind submission (but not as the ...
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