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		daemonk on Dec 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scientific Peer Review Is Broken – Fighting to Fix... Anonymity is hard in practice when so much of science consist of small niche fields where it can be pretty obvious who the author of a paper is by just reading the content. A better solution might be to enforce non-anonymous peer-reviews that can be read by the public after the paper has been published.

tnhh on Dec 11, 2014 [–]

Some venues are doing this, e.g. f1000. Here's a paper that I reviewed: http://f1000research.com/articles/3-38/v2

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