IOP Publishing has announced that two of its journals - Materials Research Express and Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express - will offer authors the choice of single or double-blind peer review from 2017.
Feedback from the research communities suggested that there is a growing demand for this option and through this pilot they aim to gain specific insight into uptake in the broad areas of materials science and biomedical physics. A number of aspects will be monitored throughout the pilot and they will communicate conclusions and outcomes to their communities from the end of 2017.
At present all IOP journals use the conventional 'single-blind' peer review model, in which the reviewer is aware of the author's identity but the author does not know who reviewed their paper. Under this new scheme authors will be able to choose whether to submit their paper to the conventional single-blind process or, if they prefer, to double-blind peer review, where the reviewer does not know the identity of the author and the author does not know the identity of the reviewers.
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