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Anonymity Check

Before you hit submit on a double-blind manuscript, run a leak scan. Flags author names, institution mentions, grant numbers, IRB protocols, self-citation patterns, named software artifacts, and author-owned URLs, anywhere they slipped into the body.

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Sample output

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Anonymity Check

Result: 6 potential leaks detected. Each item below should be removed or generalised before double-blind submission.

Self-citation patterns

[CRITICAL] Section 2, related work: "In our previous work [14], we found that review accuracy declines after the first hour of a session."
- Fix: Rewrite in the third person ("Prior work [14] found ...") and keep [14] as an ordinary reference.

Institutions

[MAJOR] methods section: "Participants were recruited from the professional master's program at [University Name]."
- Fix: Replace the name with "a large public university".

IRB and ethics protocol numbers

[MAJOR] methods section, ethics statement: "The study was approved by the [University Name] IRB under protocol 2024-0917."
- Fix: Write "approved by the authors' institutional review board" and withhold the protocol number until acceptance.

Funding and grants

[MAJOR] page 14 acknowledgements: "This work was supported by NSF grant #[Grant Number]."
- Fix: Remove the acknowledgements from the review copy and restore them in the camera-ready version.

Emails and URLs

[CRITICAL] page 6 footnote 3: "Materials and analysis scripts are available at github.com/[username]/sleep-review-study."
- Fix: Link an anonymized copy of the repository for review, with commit history and author names removed.

Named software, datasets and systems

[MINOR] Section 3.2: "Defects were seeded with ReviewSeed, the tool we released last year."
- Fix: Call it "a defect-seeding tool" and cite it as an anonymized reference.

Illustrative example on a fictional manuscript; your result follows the same format.

What it catches

Author or co-author names in the body (e.g. "Smith et al." referring to the authors' own prior work).
Institution names: "at our institution X", lab names, hospital names.
Funder names and grant numbers ("NSF #1234567", "NIH R01…").
IRB / IACUC / ethics-board protocol numbers tied to a specific institution.
Author email addresses, author-owned GitHub repos, lab webpages.
Named software or datasets that trivially identify the authors.
"In our previous work [12]" self-citation patterns.

It reads the manuscript text, not the file properties. Author names often sit in a PDF or Word file's metadata too: remove PDF metadata for blind review, free and in your browser.

FAQ

What about acknowledgements?

We scan the body and abstract. Acknowledgement sections often live at the end of the manuscript and we'll catch leaks there too, but always review them manually before submission, especially if your editor strips them automatically.

Is this a replacement for manual blinding?

No. It's a safety net. Manual review of figures, supplementary materials, and metadata is still required.

What does Purplelink retain?

Only briefly. The scan result is deleted from our servers 30 minutes after you first open it, or after 24 hours if you never do. The manuscript is sent to Anthropic's Claude API, which retains inputs for 30 days for abuse monitoring, never for training.