I'm no expert...
But in the IEEE, you don't know who is reviewing your paper...
The reviewers must send their questions to the editor who acts as an interface.
(And as a bullshit detector.)
I assumed that it was the same for all "real" science.
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I don't know how this goes in most fields,
but in the one I was in it's often the case that people can't help but recognize reviewers or authors by the content of their writing/comments. I guess this might be the case in relatively small fields or in papers with a very narrow scope.
Friends of mine would get peer reviews back from editors and be like, "Oh, great, they asked Phil to review another one of my papers." :)
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the prick of misery pierced my foot on a spiiiike on, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 19:19,
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I was listening to this podcast:
www.theamphour.com/228-an-interview-with-shahriar-from-the-signal-path-quisquous-quivering-quadripole/
And you get the impression that with his kind of subject:
Where what I consider borderline insane high frequency AC, he considers as DC...
And the most basic piece of kit is tailor made and costs half a million...
Then, the number of people in your field probably number less than a 100.
Probably more in the 10/20 mark.
So unless an editor reformats the questions, it's to easy to guess who wrote them!
Just as you said.
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