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Blockchain use for Scientific Peer Review Journals?
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BlockchainRevolution
on 18/11/2014, 22:26:24 UTC
Can the Blockchain technology serve to aid/transform the peer review process that happens in journals?

While peer review as it stands is essential to science, it is often not true peer review. Talking to journal editors, I have learned that often, peer review only means two people reading the publication. Some papers are rejected on shaky grounds, others are accepted without enough scrutiny. Watching for the impact of the journal can help, but still, I was wondering if anybody has a clear view on how blockchain can potentiate this so that science is boosted and raised beyond the reach of lobbying and personal bias?   If you think about it, scientific journals are basically a structure that provides trust. But isnt distributed trust what the blockchain is all about?

Can science be revolutionized with bitcoin also?