Moving up or down the ladder, one thing that is often used to assess the expertise of a researcher is their publication record. We have the criteria used to assess those publications when they're being submitted, so it becomes kind of a “once removed” version of that.
I imagine it changes somewhat from journal to journal, but how are those papers generally assessed? What criteria are used there? Is there more of an attempt to have an anonymous reviewer situation, where the reviewer might not know who the author is? I know that the reviewer has the right to remain anonymous in some cases. What's the general system in the SSHRC world?