Effect on the Quality of Peer Review of Blinding Reviewers and Asking Them to Sign Their Reports

Anxiety about bias, lack of accountability, and poor quality of peer review has led to questions about the imbalance in anonymity between reviewers and authors.To evaluate the effect on the quality of peer review of blinding reviewers to the authors' identities and requiring reviewers to sign their reports.Randomized controlled trial.A general medical journal.A total of 420 reviewers from the journal's database.We modified a paper accepted for...