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Re:Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Scien... by CuriousSkeptic on Sunday May 09, 2021 @05:52AM (#27094651)
Ironically I was speculating the other day if not this whole peer review thing would be a good candidate for a crypto currency

Some mechanism by which to speculate on the impact or future credibility of a paper would create some kind of prediction market

Proof of impact prediction?

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Re:Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Scien... by pmoriarty on Sunday May 09, 2021 @10:12AM (#27096037)
Just what we need... more incentives for scientists to game the system.
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Re:Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Scien... by CuriousSkeptic on Sunday May 09, 2021 @11:48AM (#27096953)
Ideally the scientists would be left out. Leaving the gaming as such to the reviewers.

But yeah, there is probably lots of interesting ways such a system would fail.

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