Publish-and-Flourish: Using Blockchain Platform to Enable Cooperative Scholarly Communication

Emilija Stojmenova Duh, Andrej Duh, Uroš Droftina, Tim Kos, Urban Duh, Tanja Simonič Korošak and Dean Korošak
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Emilija Stojmenova Duh: Infinitcodex, Ltd., Maribor SI-2000, Slovenia
Andrej Duh: Infinitcodex, Ltd., Maribor SI-2000, Slovenia
Uroš Droftina: Infinitcodex, Ltd., Maribor SI-2000, Slovenia
Tim Kos: Infinitcodex, Ltd., Maribor SI-2000, Slovenia
Urban Duh: Infinitcodex, Ltd., Maribor SI-2000, Slovenia
Tanja Simonič Korošak: TSK Studio, Maribor SI-2000, Slovenia
Dean Korošak: Institute for Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Maribor SI-2000, Slovenia

Publications, 2019, vol. 7, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: Scholarly communication is today immersed in publish-or-perish culture that propels non-cooperative behavior 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 cryptoeconomic incentives that promote cooperative user behavior. The key to achieve cooperation in blockchain based scholarly communication is to transform today’s static research paper into a modifiable research paper under continuous peer review process. We introduce and discuss the implementation of a modifiable research paper as a smart contract on the blockchain.

Keywords: scholarly communication; open science; blockchain; decentralisation; smart contract; continuous peer review; publish-and-flourish (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 D83 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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