Ants-Review: a Protocol for Incentivized Open Peer-Reviews on Ethereum

01/22/2021
by   Bianca Trovò, et al.
0

Peer-review is a necessary and essential quality control step for scientific publications but lacks proper incentives. Indeed, the process, which is very costly in terms of time and intellectual investment, not only is not remunerated by the journals but is also not openly recognized by the academic community as a relevant scientific output for a researcher. Therefore, scientific dissemination is affected in timeliness, quality, and fairness. Here, to solve this issue, we propose a blockchain-based incentive system that rewards scientists for peer-reviewing other scientists' work and that builds up trust and reputation. We designed a privacy-oriented protocol of smart contracts called Ants-Review that allows authors to issue a bounty for open anonymous peer-reviews on Ethereum. If requirements are met, peer-reviews will be accepted and paid by the approver proportionally to their assessed quality. To promote ethical behavior and inclusiveness the system implements a gamified mechanism that allows the whole community to evaluate the peer-reviews and vote for the best ones.

READ FULL TEXT
research
08/27/2021

Auctions and Prediction Markets for Scientific Peer Review

Peer reviewed publications are considered the gold standard in certifyin...
research
02/09/2022

A Blockchain Cloud Computing Middleware for Academic Manuscript Submission

One of the most important tasks in scientific publishing is the articles...
research
06/15/2023

Lakat: An open and permissionless architecture for continuous integration academic publishing

In this paper, we present three contributions to the field of academic p...
research
02/05/2018

The Social Structure of Consensus in Scientific Review

Personal connections between creators and evaluators of scientific works...
research
08/20/2020

PRINCIPIA: a Decentralized Peer-Review Ecosystem

Peer review is a cornerstone of modern scientific endeavor. However, the...
research
03/29/2022

Empirical Standards for Repository Mining

The purpose of scholarly peer review is to evaluate the quality of scien...
research
09/12/2013

Inducing Honest Reporting Without Observing Outcomes: An Application to the Peer-Review Process

When eliciting opinions from a group of experts, traditional devices use...

Please sign up or login with your details

Forgot password? Click here to reset