A transparent universal credit system to incentivize peer review

2026/05/06 by Angela Moles, Russell Bonduriansky, Stephen Bonser +4 · 2 voices
Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Academic Publishing and Open Access #Credit Risk and Financial Regulations #Government (linguistics) #Incentive #Key (lock) #Payment #The Internet #Work (physics) #scientometrics and bibliometrics research

paper · pdf · doi:10.1073/pnas.2506681123

published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(19), e2506681123 (National Academy of Sciences)

openalex publication_date 2026/05/06 · openalex created_date 2026/05/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11

Discussions

• Another proposal to fix the peer review crisis, trying to avoid free riding. I don't know if this would work, but the struggle to find reviewers is real... doi.org/10.1073/pnas... [bsky, 19 points, 2 comments]
• Super interesting. Maybe a nice fit with this suggestion: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... I think the big question is who will be willing and able to step up and reform the institutions of academia. [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]