Peer Review Needs Rethinking

Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: https://t.co/42tMZ4Nv4O

Peer review as it is intentioned is a good and necessary part of science, but it isn’t usually executed that way. Single-blind peer review (where reviewers know the authors, but the authors don’t know the reviewers) really needs to end. Double-blind peer review and open, post-publication peer review are better models.