Decentralized Science promotes transparency in peer reviewing and Open access using decentralized technologies such as blockchain and IPFS. Our solution provides a public repository of Open Peer Reviews and a reviewers’ reputation network. It helps journal editors to find the best peer reviewers, improves the quality, timeliness and fairness of review reports and increases the recognition of reviewers. Using these decentralized technologies we challenge the centralized technical infrastructure that supports the middleman role of the oligopoly of traditional publishers, bringing back the control of academic publishing and reviewing to the academic community.

Main sectors: Education & Research

Main applications: Software-as-a-Service; Research/Standards;
Disintermediation and decentralized networks

Established in: 2019

URL: https://decentralized.science/

Organisation: Decentralized Academy SL

Organisation type: Companies (non-profit) – Startup

Founders: Antonio Tenorio Fornés

Partners: Ledger; P2P Model

Country: Spain

City: Madrid

Stage of project: Pilot

Geographical reach: International

DLT / Blockchain: Public – Ethereum

Other technologies: N/A

Whitepaper: https://decentralized.science/papers/hicssDecentralizedScience.pdf

Github: https://github.com/DecentralizedScience

Twitter: https://twitter.com/decent_science

This project is part of the #DLT4Good Scanning. ‘#DLT4Good: Co-creating a European Ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good’ is a forward-looking science for policy project supported by the European Parliament, and coordinated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT). Learn more about #DLT4Good.