Publishing perils include single-blind review

Double-blind refereeing: does the RAS need it?

“…This is a small journal which publishes around 100 papers per year, so the community is presumably much smaller than the community of astronomers. There has been considerable discussion over the years, for example in 2007/8 in Physics Today (Deal 2008, Williams 2007) and in Eos Transactions of the American Geophysical Union in 2003/4, showing that “double‐blind” refereeing is the gold standard to which scientific publications should aspire. As Deal pointed out, the scientific value of “double‐blind” drug trials over “single‐blind” is self‐evident.…”