Blind peer review has become the gold standard of many scholarly disciplines. However, this seems like a paradox since openness is deeply embedded in the DNA of research. Over the last 30 years changes in the managerial paradigms of academia have also induced so many changes in the ecosystem of scholarly communication that many scholars describe the present situation as a crisis. Therefore, in light of the availability of new technologies and the changes in the scholarly communication ecosystems, it might be time to review how we assess research quality and address the paradox of the blindness of peer review.

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闭上眼睛生活会更轻松吗？

盲审同行评审已成为许多学术学科的黄金标准。然而，这似乎是一个悖论，因为开放性深深植根于研究的基因之中。过去30年来，学术界管理范式的变化也引发了学术交流生态系统的巨大变化，以至于许多学者将目前的情况描述为一场危机。因此，鉴于新技术的出现和学术传播生态系统的变化，也许是时候重新审视我们如何评估研究质量并解决同行评审盲目性的悖论了。