Peer-review is a necessary and essential quality control step for scientific publications but lacks proper incentives. Indeed, the process, which is very costly in terms of time and intellectual investment, not only is not remunerated by the journals but is also not openly recognized by the academic community as a relevant scientific output for a researcher. Therefore, scientific dissemination is affected in timeliness, quality, and fairness. Here, to solve this issue, we propose a blockchain-based incentive system that rewards scientists for peer-reviewing other scientists' work and that builds up trust and reputation. We designed a privacy-oriented protocol of smart contracts called Ants-Review that allows authors to issue a bounty for open anonymous peer-reviews on Ethereum. If requirements are met, peer-reviews will be accepted and paid by the approver proportionally to their assessed quality. To promote ethical behavior and inclusiveness the system implements a gamified mechanism that allows the whole community to evaluate the peer-reviews and vote for the best ones.
翻译：对科学出版物来说,同行审查是必要和必要的质量控制步骤,但缺乏适当的激励机制。 事实上,这一过程在时间和智力投资方面代价高昂,不仅没有得到期刊的报酬,而且没有被学术界公开承认为研究者的相关科学产出。因此,科学传播在及时性、质量和公平性方面受到影响。为了解决这一问题,我们提议了一个基于连锁的激励系统,奖励科学家进行同行审查的其他科学家的工作,并增强信任和声誉。我们设计了一个名为“Ants-Review”的智能合同保密协议,允许作者为Etheum的公开匿名同行评审发放赏金。如果满足了要求,同行评审将按其评估质量的比例被核准者接受和支付。为了促进道德行为和包容性,系统将实施一个使全社会能够评价同行评审和投票给最佳参与者的组合机制。
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