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Towards a decentralized process for scientific publication and peer review using blockchain and IPFS Tenorio Fornés, Ámbar Jacynycz, Viktor Llop Vila, David Sánchez Ruiz-Granados, Antonio Alejandro Hassan Collado, Samer Informática (Informática) Internet (Informática) Software 1203.17 Informática 3325 Tecnología de las Telecomunicaciones 3304.16 Diseño Lógico ISBN 978-0-9981331-2-6 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. Unión Europea. Horizonte 2020 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) Universidad Complutense de Madrid Depto. de Ingeniería de Software e Inteligencia Artificial (ISIA) Fac. de Informática TRUE pub 2023-06-17T14:21:44Z 2023-06-17T14:21:44Z 2019 conference paper https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/14149 XXXX-XXXX eng P2PMODELS (759207) (TIN2014-55006-R; TIN2017-87330-R) UCM (921330) Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ open access application/pdf