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<div class="">As a junior faculty I can assure everyone that I will be very reluctant to fully criticize a manuscript if my identity as reviewer were to be revealed to the authors. Out of curiosity, are we not reviewers ourselves? </div>
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<div class="">Best wishes,</div>
<div class="">Reza</div>
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Reza Khayat, PhD<br class="">
Assistant Professor<br class="">
City College of New York<br class="">
85 St. Nicholas Dr. CDI 12308<br class="">
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<div class="">On May 3, 2015, at 9:10 AM, Morgan Beeby <<a href="mailto:m.beeby@imperial.ac.uk" class="">m.beeby@imperial.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div>
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Thought I'd chime in to support openness, but also to respond to Sjors' comment about potential dangers of revealing one's identity as a reviewer.<br class="">
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In the era of intense pressure to 'succeed' as a new PI, requirement to reveal one's identity might easily lead to a junior PI holding back on full criticism in reviews of established PIs (who are likely to reciprocally review one's own manuscripts), while
senior PI colleagues with less at stake (i.e., careers that don't hang on a single publication) could afford to be more open with full criticism. I'm not suggesting senior colleagues are 'out to get' junior colleagues! (indeed -- open criticism is needed to
mature as scientists). But (quite possibly subconscious) self-censorship surely cannot be a good thing? Anonymous peer review circumvents any such potential power imbalance.<br class="">
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I've really appreciated past reviewers revealing their identity to me in person, as that has often facilitated great discussions. In my opinion, however, the system is fairest if reviewer anonymity is the default option that can be opted out of either on paper,
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Morgan<br class="">
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On 02/05/2015 12:10, Sjors Scheres wrote:<br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="">However, revealing one's<br class="">
identity as a reviewer also has a potential danger of bias towards being<br class="">
less critical (perhaps especially for less established reviewers?), or the<br class="">
danger of a culture where positive reviews are expected to be 'paid back'<br class="">
later. Again, I think trust is the key word, and recognizing the<br class="">
difficulties of every option is a good start.<br class="">
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Morgan Beeby, Ph.D.<br class="">
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United Kingdom<br class="">
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