RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Towards a decentralized process for scientific publication and peer review using blockchain and IPFS
A1 Tenorio Fornés, Ámbar
A1 Jacynycz, Viktor
A1 Llop Vila, David
A1 Sánchez Ruiz-Granados, Antonio Alejandro
A1 Hassan Collado, Samer
AB The current processes of scientific publication and peer review raise concerns around fairness, quality, performance, cost, and accuracy. The Open Access movement has been unable to fulfill all its promises, and a few middlemen publishers can still impose policies and concentrate profits. This paper, using emerging distributed technologies such as Blockchain and IPFS, proposes a decentralized publication system for open science. The proposed system would provide (1) a distributed reviewer reputation system, (2) an Open Access by-design infrastructure, and (3) transparent governance processes. A survey is used to evaluate the problems, proposed solutions and possible adoption resistances, while a working prototype serves as a proof-of-concept. Additionally, the paper discusses the implementation, in a distributed context, of different privacy settings for both open peer review and reputation systems, introducing a novel approach supporting both anonymous and accountable reviews.The paper concludes reviewing the open challenges of this ambitious proposal.
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/14149
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/14149
LA eng
NO ISBN 978-0-9981331-2-6
NO Unión Europea. Horizonte 2020
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025