I just got the following message from Elsevier:
I would like to inform you that the Editors of Social Network have decided to change the current reviewing policy from ‘Double Blind’ ( Authors and reviewers details are not discosed to each other) to ‘Single Blind’ (author details are shared with Reviewers) to streamline the submissions.
That is quite revolutionary! I know of no other (semi-)top journal that doesn’t do double-blind peer review, considered by many the hallmark of objective quality assurance in science. It is all the more surprising that the editors (via Elsevier) present it as merely an efficiency measure. I bet there will be a lot of discussion about this, and I am very curious about the substantive arguments that the editors may have to justify this surprising move…