Double-blind peer review process [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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====== Double-blind peer review process ======

Both the [[reviewer]] and [[author]] identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the [[review process]]. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity.
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A more complete and fair method of recognizing the [[contribution]] of a [[reviewer]] to the final version of the article, would be to list them in the article, which would require [[open peer review]]s. Journals and indexers can organize systems to provide public recognition to open reviewers, but more educational efforts are required to change the mind of those defending the old-fashioned blind and [[double-blind peer review process]]es
((Wicherts JM. Peer review quality and transparency of the peer-review process in open access and subscription journals. PLoS One. 2016;11(1):e0147913. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147913.))
((Transparency in peer review. Nat Hum Behav. 2019;3(12):1237. doi: 10.1038/s41562-019-0799-8.)).