Reviewers were using AI
You are supposed to cite your own relevant work and this sounds like he may have not
Double-blind review masks the author’s identity, including self-citations that would identify the author. The author may have done this too effectively, and/or the reviewer was not as familiar with the author’s work as the critique would imply.
A self-citation in a double-blind review should just look like a normal citation of 3rd party work.
Unless you are saying specifically “in my previous work”.
I suppose it depends on the writing style.
Yes, it should look the same, and some journals go as far as redacting the references on the review copy entirely, so they all look exactly the same. That said, if an author is prestigious enough to be known, they need to do more than that to mask their identity. Writing styles and subject matter can give away an author’s identify even if blinded.
I’ve never seen that. The reviewer is anonymous, not the authors.
In single-blind peer review, it’s just the reviewer. In double-blind, it’s both reviewer and author(s) with different levels of author blinding. Double-blind arguably reduces reviewer bias, but depending on the field and subject matter, once an author is recognizable, double-blinding doesn’t truly mask them.
What are the odds. Of that name, I mean.
At least it’s not Plagiarini
