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<p class="MsoNormal">Before changing any reviewing system, why do conferences and journals not publish annual lists of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">papers accepted and papers rejected. If any patterns of discrimination or prejudice are noticed,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">this could lead to data- and case-based discussions?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ramesh Krishnamurthy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Visiting Academic Fellow, School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Room: NX01. Tel: 0121-204-3812. <br>
Director, ACORN (Aston Corpus Network project): <a href="http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/">
<span style="color:blue">http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Corpus Analyst:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(a) GeWiss (Volkswagen Foundation) project: <a href="http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/gewiss-spoken-academic-discourse/">
<span style="color:blue">http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/gewiss-spoken-academic-discourse/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(b) Discourse of Climate Change: <a href="http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/discourse-of-climate-change-project/">
<span style="color:blue">http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/discourse-of-climate-change-project/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(c) Feminism: <a href="http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/projects.html">
<span style="color:blue">http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/projects.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(d) COMENEGO (Corpus Multilingüe de Economía y Negocios) - Multilingual Corpus of Business and Economics:
<a href="http://dti.ua.es/comenego"><span style="color:blue">http://dti.ua.es/comenego</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(e) European Phraseology Project: <a href="http://labidiomas3.ua.es/phraseology/login/login.php">
<span style="color:blue">http://labidiomas3.ua.es/phraseology/login/login.php</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Message: 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:44:58 +0200<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">From: Alon Lischinsky <<a href="mailto:alon.lischinsky@kultmed.umu.se">alon.lischinsky@kultmed.umu.se</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Corpora Digest, Vol 52, Issue 3 [was blind<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> reviewing]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">To: Laurence Anthony <<a href="mailto:anthony0122@gmail.com">anthony0122@gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Cc: Corpora Mailing List <<a href="mailto:corpora@uib.no">corpora@uib.no</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">On 2011/10/12 Laurence Anthony <<a href="mailto:anthony0122@gmail.com">anthony0122@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> But, as I just wrote on another fragment of this discussion, what
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> exactly is the alternative that people are proposing when double-blind
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> reviewing is not working? Arguing that we should be following the LREC
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> 2012 approach (as Yorick just stated) seems contradictory to 'many'<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> (vague I know!) statements made so far, because it adopts a
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> single-blind system where the authors know the names of the authors
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> but the authors still don't know who is doing the review.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I don't see any intrinsic disadvantages to blinding the author's identity. At worst, it provides no benefits (when the reviewer can identify the author from their style or references to previous work), but the cost incurred is minor.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">What I would like to see is accountability on the part of reviewers and editors. Peer review is, after all, a gatekeeping system. I would like the records of the process to be as public as possible, just as we demand public oversight
of government actions, or full disclosure of financial interests by authors. Career progression requires one to publish, which means, that authors cannot avoid the peer review system. Given that we are stuck with it, I say it'd be best if the system were as
open as possible.<o:p></o:p></p>
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