An approach to incentivize peer-reviewers in a trustworthy and transparent way. Rewards which people can actually spend, and, recognition for life.

1. Q1: How can peer-reviewing be carried out using decentralised computing technologies?
Q1.1: What are the key processes involved in peer-review?
Q1.2: (How) Can these key-processes be decentralized?
Q2: How can decentralised computing technologies be used to establish trust in the peer-reviewing process?
Q3: How can decentralised computing technologies be used to incentivise peer-reviewers?
Recognition and reward system for peer-reviewers
Zeeshan Jan
zeeshan.jan@open.ac.uk
Introduction
Research Questions
Approach
• ESWC – 2018 data
• 168 Submissions
• PoA based chain
• Ethereum and Solidity
• Researcher ’s reputations
• Cryptocurrency reward
Pilot
• Decentralization
• Distributed – No down-time
• Transparency
• Trust
• Recognition
• Rewards
• Immutable knowledge base
Benefits
Supervisor
Prof. John Domingue Dr. Allan Third
john.domingue@open.ac.uk allan.third@open.ac.uk
Backbone of the academic
publishing process
Defects
Slowness Bias Abuse
Should be recognized and rewarded
Recognition Reward PerksMake Break
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Supervisor