On Tuesday night Gourmet Traveller, after sending teams of reviewers across Australia, reviewed and listed what it now deems to be our best hotels.
This does not always work some fields are so small, and some academics' proclivities so particular, that identities can be easily guessed.Ulrich Pöschl, editor of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, suggests having open peer review but offering reviewers the option of anonymity the way nearly every EGU journal is run.
Also, the reviews are peer-led, reviewers are not part of an alien inspectorate but academics and administrators from across the sector, nationally and soon possibly internationally.
Just as the Skibbereen Eagle grandly warned Kaiser Wilhelm in 1914 that it had its eye on him, so film reviewers feel moved to bellow their disapproval at the Academy.
Woman in Gold is released in cinemas next month, but at its premiere in Berlin the Austrian reviewers were generous about its portrayal of a national reluctance to face the art crimes of the past, according to playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell, who wrote the screenplay.
However, A Bend in the River, published by Knopf in New York in May 1979, immediately won powerful support from reviewers.
She added: "The decision not to publish had absolutely nothing to do with any 'activism' on the part of the reviewers or the journal, as suggested in The Times' article; the rejection was solely based on the content of the paper not meeting the journal's high editorial standards.
In their reports, the reviewers stated that "the overall innovation of the manuscript is very low", and this meant it did not meet requirements for the papers in the journal to "significantly advance knowledge in the field".
Our reviewers recommended the books for ages nine and up.
The academics, Alexandra Pitman and Fiona Stevenson, determined that the reviewers had failed to adhere to the recommendations in media guidelines developed by the Samaritans, MediaWise Trust and the former PCC (now Ipso).
The Dash, in fact, is so important to Sony that reviewers were not permitted to see it without first enjoying a conference call with company managers.
