On transparency in peer review
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. Louis D. Brandeis, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice from 1916 to 1939, in “Other People’s Money and How the Bankers Use It” (1914), Chapter 5 Two years ago I started a personal experiment in transparency; I began attaching my name to every peer review I wrote for scientific journals and conferences....