Peer Review: https://peer-review.io https://peer-review.io It's an experiment in academic publishing. Can we crowdsource peer review of scientific and scholar

Peer Review: https://peer-review.io https://peer-review.io It's an experiment in academic publishing. Can we crowdsource peer review of scientific and scholarly papers using a StackExchange like reputation system? And can we organize it as a non-profit funded by user donations? We've known for years that academic publishing through the journals is really badly broken. It hides the primary sources of human knowledge behind a paywall on the basis that the journals are doing the hard work of filtering out misinformation - but the journals are actually manually crowdsourcing the filtering to unpaid reviewers. And the filtering has broken down completely anyway in a world of self-publishing and predatory journals. So can we crowdsource the filtering using a software platform, instead of manually using journal editors? That's the premise of Peer Review. It uses a StackExchange like reputation system to match papers to qualified reviewers. It splits review into pre-publish review, focused on giving authors really good constructive feedback, and post-publish refereeing, focused on filtering malpractice. Reputation is primarily gained from votes on papers during refereeing, but can also be gained from giving good constructive pre-published reviews. Right now it's a side project and will probably remain so for the forseeable future. But if it ever gains significant traction, I'd love to form a non-profit around it and exploring having it be governed by it's users. It's an experiment in two ways: can we recreate the wikipedia model of funding with improved governance, and can we solve academic publishing through software mediated crowdsourcing.