thanks Chitu, although it is totally not my field, it looks really interesting!

(downloaded from: http://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/pubs/SIGMODRecordSept06.pdf

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Chitu Okoli Chitu.Okoli@concordia.cawrote:

I know this is an old branch of this topic, but since it generated quite some interest on this list, I thought I'd share this excellent article I recently found on double-blind vs. single-blind reviewing. It addresses most of the issues that were discussed in this sub-thread.

In brief, the editor of a prominent computer science journal recounts his exploration on which way to go with his journal. The journal decided to go double-blind because of its benefits (mainly protecting less powerful researchers), but his journal has a very detailed set of instructions (in the appendix) that do an excellent job addressing computer science projects that are difficult to anonymize, which I think are very much applicable to a wiki-based journal as discussed in this thread.

Snodgrass, Richard T. 2007. Editorial: Single- versus double-blind reviewing. *ACM Trans. Database Syst.* 32, 1. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1206049.1206050http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1206049.1206050

If you don't have access to the ACM Digital Library, you can get a PDF of the article from Google Scholar.

~ Chitu

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