Judge not where I publish, but what I publish
The science publishing industry has a stranglehold on the careers and work of many scientists; mainly because where you publish matters more than what you publish.
Where you publish as a scientist determines your career advancement, whether you get research funding, and even whether you receive awards. This results in pressure on researchers to publish in traditional “high impact” journals. EUREKA aims to disrupt the science publishing industry for the benefit of science and of scientists. EUREKA is the next-generation publishing platform which will have the first blockchain-based scientific rating system that provides reliable, immutable scores on research data. These scores can be transferred on the blockchain to funders, institutions and directly to journals. Let us bring the focus back to the actual science and not the journal brands.
Since the EUREKA platform will use crowdsourced annotation and expert peer review ratings, the scores will be more reliable and representative. Thus, sources of funding could make decisions based on ratings and reviews made available on the EUREKA platform.
Ratings of a specific research, for which the research meta data has been recorded on the EUREKA platform, can be transferred to institutions and universities to be used when a researcher is being considered for promotion, tenure, or awards.
Several academic prizes, including the famous Nobel Prize, Breakthrough prizes, and Lasker Prizes, are awarded to outstanding researchers. The evaluation process for these prizes takes into account where the authors have been published. The EUREKA rating and review system on research data could eventually form an integral part of the criteria for selection. Award committees could also consider new, representative criteria for selection such as crowdsourced annotation, expert-guided reviews, and ratings. This would be a necessary change from the current selection of simply judging where research is published.
Using smart contracts on the EUREKA platform, the whole publishing process — including submission, reviewing, rating, decentralised publishing and funding decisions — can be made more efficient. The $10 billion per year which academia spends on publishing fees today can instead be reallocated to funding research and rewarding scientists..
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