Abstract:

Peer review of scholarly journals generally lacks sufficient incentive for reviewers.

With the continuous growth of the number of manuscripts, it will threaten the efficiency of the

peer review system. Facing this problem, this paper proposes and discusses a new peer review

mechanism of scholarly journals based on blockchain and related technologies. The mechanism

is composed of two blockchain-based cryptoeconomic primitives ：the Bonding Curve and the

Token-Curated Registries. Compared with the traditional mechanism, this mechanism can

continuously ensure the efficiency and quality of peer review by providing effective incentives,

and then help to improve the service and influence of journals, but there are some defects and

challenges as well.

Key words:

Blockchain Scholarly journals Peer review Scholarly publishing Digital

publishing

CLC Number: 

• G237