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by borroka 2831 days ago
There is certainly gate-keeping at decent journals. For instance, not having an affiliation with an institution or a company known to carry out research is not the best presentation you can make.
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But reviewers will not know who you are affiliated with until reviewing is done and the paper is accepted.
Very few journals do double-blind reviews. Maybe some conferences in CS, but in my field (biology) I never reviewed a paper without knowing who the authors were, along with their affiliation.
Double blind reviewing is mostly just a computer science conference thing. Very few journals do it.