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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I've always wondered if some sort of decentralized, community-led system would be better than the current peer review process.

That is, someone can submit their paper and it's publicly available for all to read, then people with expertise in fields relevant to that paper could review and rate its quality.

Now that I think about it it's conceptually similar to Twitter's community notes, where anyone with enough reputation can write a note and if others rate it as helpful it's shown to everyone. Though unlike Twitter there would obviously need to be some kind of vetting process so that it's not just random people submitting and rating papers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps a Lemmy server, in which only moderator-approved users can vote on posts?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I feel like I've seen this model before, I know I've heard it. There's better ways to do it than your suggestion, but it's there in spirit. Science is a conversation, it would be a really cool idea to make room for things like this. In the meantime, check out Pubpeer, it's got extensions for browsers. Super useful and you have to attach your ORCID to be verified. Everyone can read it though.