Truly Anonymous Paper Submission and Review Scheme

Due to the flush development of academic research, a great deal research results have been published in conference proceedings and journals. However, these articles need to be inspected by some professionals in specific fields. It is the most important that it must keep fair during the entire process of reviewing. However, the privacy of reviewers will be leaked out because that the reviewers must sign their comments on the reviewed papers. The leakage of the reviewers' privacy will affect the fairness of paper reviewing. In addition, the authors need to show their names to the editor of conference proceedings or journals such that it may also make the inspecting results unfair. Unfortunately, the solutions proposed in the literature cannot cope with the problems of fairness well. Therefore, in order to eliminate the drawbacks of the previous schemes, we will deeply analyze the paper review procedure to find the possible reasons that bring about these unfair results. Furthermore, we will present a generic idea, which is independent of the underlying cryptographic components, to achieve the fairness property and other requirements in a paper review scheme.