What are the potential risks of breaches of confidentiality in single blind review?

Study design. We performed a single-centre, two-arm randomised, single (assessor)-blind pilot study at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. The study ... In single-blind review, reviewers' identities are blinded—that is, not known to authors—though authors' identities are revealed to reviewers at the time of ... Feb 13, 2018 ... Single-blind peer review is a conventional method of peer review where the authors do not know who the reviewers are. However, the reviewers ... This study is a three-arm single-blinded randomized clinical trial evaluat ing 130 radiographically confirmed knee osteoarthritis patients suffering from ... Nov 30, 2017 ... Each PC member read his or her assigned papers and entered reviews, again with only single-blind PC members able to see the authors and ... Feb 13, 2013 ... Double-blind reviews imply that both the author and the reviewers are blind, while single-blind reviews imply that reviewers are blind and the author is not. Jun 20, 2024 ... Comparing Single-Blind and Double-Blind Approaches. When it comes to mitigating bias, double-blind peer review generally performs better than ... Oct 12, 2021 ... (2017) designed a similar experiment where papers submitted to a reputable computer science conference were subjected to both single-blind and ... Apr 19, 2024 ... In the single-blind peer review process, reviewers are aware of the authors' identities, but authors remain unaware of who the reviewers are. Unblinding that occurs before the conclusion of a study is a source of experimental error, as the bias that was eliminated by blinding is re-introduced. The ...