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Re:The Future of Peer Review by RichardPrice on Sunday February 05, 2012 @05:17PM (#3555467)
Wybo - thanks for these links. I totally agree that breaking the feedback loop you mentioned, that binds academics to the current journal system, is key. I think the central things that needs to happen are: building an alternative discovery system (already happening with the web), and building an alternative credit system (happening with citation counts, and other metrics, but is lagging behind the growth in alternative discovery systems, and needs to be accelerated).
Re:The Future of Peer Review by femto on Sunday February 05, 2012 @09:16PM (#3555938)
I wonder if a distributed algorithms, as used in web based currencies (eg. bitcoin) or incentive based systems (eg. bit torrent), can be adapted to the peer review system? The currency being traded would be academic credit.