Design of a Decentralised Autonomous Scientific Publishing Organisation

The scientific publishing process today is by many scientists still considered as non-optimal. Potential improvement areas include the overall publisher business models, the quality and transparency of the review processes, the replicability of scientific experiments, the reputation and informetrics, and other quantifiable and qualitative aspects. Decentralised Ledger Technologies (DLT) have already been used in the context of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and may contribute to user identification, data and process verification and certification, reputation management and business models based on tokenomics principles. The following study presents the design and the implementation of a Decentralised Autonomous Scientific Publishing Organisation that operates under democratic principles and aims at improving the quality of the scientific publishing processes.