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On Equitable Non-Anonymous Review

McCutcheon, Randall (2020) On Equitable Non-Anonymous Review. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Remco Heesen has recently argued in favor of the editorial practice of triple-anonymous review on the grounds that ``an injustice is committed against certain authors'' under non-anonymous review. On the other hand, he concedes that the information waste of triple-anonymous review does handicap editors, in particular sacrificing a boost in the average quality of accepted papers that would otherwise be conferred by non-anonymous review. In this paper it is observed that by devoting comparatively greater reviewing resources to the papers of unfamiliar authors, editors practicing non-anonymous review can, without loss of information, avoid subjecting authors to the sorts of injustices observed by Heesen. Thus they can reap the efficiency gains of non-anonymous review without sacrificing fairness.


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Item Type: Preprint
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McCutcheon, Randallrmcctchn@memphis.edu0000-0002-5305-3662
Keywords: peer review, connection bias
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Depositing User: Dr. Randall G. McCutcheon
Date Deposited: 14 May 2020 03:18
Last Modified: 14 May 2020 03:18
Item ID: 17180
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Date: 24 January 2020
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17180

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