Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review

Andrew Tomkins, Min Zhang, and William D. Heavlin
PNAS November 28, 2017 114 (48) 12708-12713; published ahead of print November 14, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707323114

  1. Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved October 10, 2017 (received for review May 3, 2017)

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vol. 114 no. 48 12708-12713
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707323114
PubMed: 
29138317
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National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
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  • Published in issue November 28, 2017.
  • Published first November 14, 2017.
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Copyright © 2017 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND).

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  1. Andrew Tomkinsa,1,
  2. Min Zhangb, and
  3. William D. Heavlina
  1. aGoogle, Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043;
  2. bState Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

  1. Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved October 10, 2017 (received for review May 3, 2017)

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  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: atomkins{at}gmail.com.

  • An extended abstract of this work has been previously posted as a preprint (1).

  • Author contributions: A.T. and M.Z. designed research; A.T. and M.Z. performed research; W.D.H. analyzed data; and A.T., M.Z., and W.D.H. wrote the paper.

  • Conflict of interest statement: A.T. and W.D.H. are employed and paid by Google, Inc. Google often provides funding to conferences, including the WSDM conference studied in this work.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1707323114/-/DCSupplemental.

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Andrew Tomkins, Min Zhang, William D. Heavlin
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nov 2017, 114 (48) 12708-12713; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1707323114
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