2018/10/24 by Emilija Stojmenova Duh, Andrej Duh, Duh, Emilija Stojmenova +11
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · #Blockchain Technology Applications and Security #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #Distributed #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance #Parallel #Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1810.10263
openalex publication_date 2018/10/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Scholarly communication is today immersed in publish or perish culture that propels noncooperative behaviour in the sense of strategic games played by researchers. Here we introduce and describe a blockchain based platform for decentralized scholarly communication. The design of the platform rests on community driven publishing reviewing processes and implements incentives that promote cooperative user behaviour. Key to achieve cooperation in blockchain based scholarly communication is to transform a static research paper into a modifiable research paper under continuous peer review process. We describe and discuss the implementation of a modifiable research paper as a smart contract on the blockchain.