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Researchers and scientists could have asymmetric keys and peer review in that fashion. The authors could append cryptographic signatures to the article. Then we
by krichman 14y ago
Researchers and scientists could have asymmetric keys and peer review in that fashion. The authors could append cryptographic signatures to the article. Then we don't need centralized journals, just a list of academics whose scientific rigor is trusted.
- spin 14y agoI have often thought about doing something similar to this. Basically, you publish a signed version of your paper on your own website, and then other scientists can sign it with notes. It would be kind of like a "Facebook like" system. (By "sign", I mean a cryptographic signature.) "82 PhD scientists have reviewed this paper, including 3 people in your close network and 2 more people from your extended network." ...or something like that. You could do a network-graph search. Start with some professors that you trust, and some keywords that you're interested in and start walking the graph from there. I don't know what the profit motive would be for someone to build this though. Nor the motive for individual reviewers to carefully review someone's paper and provide detailed useful feedback...