Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259968 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2009:5
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the credibility of author anonymity provided by double-blind review processes. It is argued that authors have strong incentives to disseminate information about their papers before publication. A sample from two economics journals, both using double-blind review processes provides evidence that author revealing information of most accepted papers is available on the Internet before the review processes are finished. The difficulty and cost of identifying authors of anonymized unpublished manuscripts are examined in an experiment where subjects are paid according to their identification performance. The vast majority of authors can be identified within 60 seconds.
Subjects: 
Review Process
Scientific Publication
Experiment
JEL: 
C91
D80
O30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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