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The Case for a Technology Solution to the Ethics Crisis in Academic Publishing

The Case for a Technology Solution to the Ethics Crisis in Academic Publishing

Keith Wright
Copyright: © 2021 |Volume: 12 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 20
ISSN: 1947-3451|EISSN: 1947-346X|EISBN13: 9781799861485|DOI: 10.4018/IJT.2021010101
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Wright, Keith. "The Case for a Technology Solution to the Ethics Crisis in Academic Publishing." IJT vol.12, no.1 2021: pp.1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.2021010101

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Wright, K. (2021). The Case for a Technology Solution to the Ethics Crisis in Academic Publishing. International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), 12(1), 1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.2021010101

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Wright, Keith. "The Case for a Technology Solution to the Ethics Crisis in Academic Publishing," International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) 12, no.1: 1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.2021010101

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Abstract

This article integrates existing theory from distributed computing and cryptology with gray literature from industry to provide a comprehensive description of the minimum requirements of a technological solution to the current ethics crisis in academic publishing. The paper argues that such a solution could significantly reduce the biases and misconduct that now exist in the academic peer review process. Theory suggests such a system could operate effectively as a distributed encrypted telecommunications network where nodes are anonymous, do not trust each other, with minimal central authority. To incentivize the academic community to join such a community, the paper proposes a new pseudo-cryptocurrency called litcoin (literature coin). This litcoin-based system would create economic scarcity based on proof of knowledge (POK), which is a synthesis of the proof of work (POW) mechanism used in bitcoin, and the proof of stake (POS) mechanism used in various altcoin communities.

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