Challenges in Scholarly Communication and Scientific Publication – Present Scenario and Opportunities through Blockchain Solutions
Eashwar Sivakumar, Paras Chawla, Geetha Ganesan · The 5th International Conference on Future Networks & Distributed Systems · 2021
The internet is flooded with predatory, cloned and hijacked journals. Even the senior researchers fall pray to these dubious publications. Blockchain being transparent, decentralized and immutable in nature has great potential in scientific publication industry. We found that certain blockchain based frameworks for journal publication are being developed. In this paper we have listed the opportunities through blockchain technology so as to disrupt the scientific publication houses. We have also compared the existing blockchain based frameworks and open research problems to tackle limitations faced in traditional scholarly communication and scientific publication. Development in the area of consensus algorithm, adopting Management Principles such as Business Process Management (BPM) and Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Smart Contract, verifying the genuinity of publication, reviewer selection process are the identified problems that can help scientific publication industry to be sustainable.