The System to Visualize Certified Workloads of Peer-Review with Blockchain
Shino Iwami · 2022 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) · 2022
Peer-reviews are maintained by voluntary activities, which are invisible for evaluating workloads. However, the voluntary activities have become heavier burdens following the increase of scientific publications. Peer-reviews are important to maintain the current evaluation system for science and technology. In this research, regarding workloads of peer-review tasks, the prototype system with blockchain proposes to make invisibles visible. Blockchain has been discussed to be utilized for certifying documentations such as educational background and for guaranteeing research data. This research explores new possibilities about the visualization of conventional peer-review tasks and the function to show researchers’ peer-review contributions to their employers.