<font face="verdana,sans-serif">The term "single blind" comes from study design in epidemiology. It means the participants (usually taken as authors) doesn't know what happens in the test cases (names of the reviewers). <br>
<br>In that sense, I think Anil's definitions are correct to the extent review system is practiced:<br></font><div>
<br></div><div>1. Open review system: The reviewer and the author both know each other's identity</div><div>2. Single blind system: Reviewer knows who the author is, but the author doesn't know who the reviewer is</div>
<div>3. Double blind system: Neither the author nor the reviewer knows the other's identity</div><br><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>I'm not aware of a situation where the author hides one's name, but the reviewer has to reveal his/her name. If there is a name for both the other review design, you can suggest it or use "other".<br>
<br clear="all"></font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Sincerely,</span><br style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Siddhartha Jonnalagadda, </span>Ph.D.<br style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Alon Lischinsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alon.lischinsky@kultmed.umu.se">alon.lischinsky@kultmed.umu.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 2011/10/12 Siddhartha Jonnalagadda <<a href="mailto:sid.kgp@gmail.com">sid.kgp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> So, here is the poll.<br>
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</div>The poll is inaccurate, as "single-blind" conflates two very different<br>
review designs: blinding the authors' identity only, or the reviewers'<br>
identity only.<br>
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