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I think making publications anonymous when initially published and add names later would work.

If the publication includes source code, must the copyright information be scrubbed?

If the publication concerns a software project, can the publication link to where to get the source code, on a site with the authors' names? Or is the program name and/or author names also be anonymized?

there's been work on writing stylometry, namely detecting authors by style of writing. Now academic papers might be a combination of enough authors that the results are not easily classifiable, but still, just stripping author names is not enough.

You can also tell quite a bit based upon the citations. I've been able to guess at who was the original author based on how the paper was written/structured and the citations.

You can also guess who writes reviews. There was this one guy who got pissed off at me at a conference for nonchalantly discussing who I thought the reviewers on our paper were... whatever man, it's my review now.

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