A Network based Blockchain ecosystem for peer review publication

Abstract: Blockchain as an emerging technology has transformed many traditional and conventional ecosystems and business models. Publication review system is one of the interesting subjects for transformation. The conventional models of publication review besides the urgent criticisms necessitates a transformation. This paper has investigated the most dominant shortcomings of literature review of publication review systems. Investigating the capabilities of Blockchain technology in the literature and its transformative capabilities, a network based Blockchain ecosystem is proposed. The ecosystem is providing a decentralized, transparent, and effective collaboration mechanisms for authors, reviewers, and other stakeholders in publication review processes. The main advantage of the ecosystem is committing the of all stakeholders and recognizing their contributions in a publication. Moreover, the ecosystem profits the stakeholders from the resulted reputation of the publication in future citations with its token model. The architecture of the proposed ecosystem supports the management of publication contents and sharing it for stakeholders. Moreover, it enables the configuration of smart contracts for governance of processes among stakeholders. It uses a token transaction Blockchain model to fulfill the token transactions. The capabilities and details of layers in the ecosystem has been discussed addressing the new paradigm of publication review ecosystem.