Effect on peer review of telling reviewers that their signed reviews might be posted on the web: randomised controlled trial
Tags: PEER review of academic writing -- Reviews; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; CRITICS -- Research; RESEARCH -- Evaluation; ACADEMIC discourse -- Research
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