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Nature 452, 28 (6 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/452028c; Published online 5 March 2008

Double-blind review: easy to guess in specialist fields

David Lane1

  1. Laboratoire de microbiologie et génétique moléculaires, CNRS, bât. IBCG, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France

I work in a field, replicon dynamics in microbes, in which the cooperation-to-competition ratio is, I would guess, relatively high. Subject, technique, citation habits and writing style would subvert more than 80% of attempts to conceal author identity, just as authors guess referee identity correctly in about 50% of cases .

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