The head of your main funding body knows it was you who said his last paper was crap

May 22nd, 2007

From the Nature peer review blog

In short: wordprocessors embed author details in metadata, and downloads from websites can be tracked using tools such as Google analytics.

Solutions? Well partial ones at least.

Submit your review in plain text, and make sure no metadata is attached. Download data from public repositories, or from Google cache.

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