Microsoft Word’s Hidden Tags Reveal Once-Anonymous Peer Reviewers
APR 18, 2006
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020025
The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required): The peer-review process at many academic journals is intended to be blind, meaning that authors do not know who is reviewing their work. But a little-known setting in Microsoft Word has led to the unmasking of some peer reviewers, compromising the anonymity of the process.
© 2006 American Institute of Physics
