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BUILDING THE LEDGER OF RECORD FOR RESEARCHERS AND SCIENTISTS
Blockchain and Publishing Real World Experience
NFAIS
5/15/2018
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THE RESEARCH PROCESS HAS WELL KNOWN OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT WHERE PUBLISHERS CAN PLAY A MEANINGFUL ROLE What role should publishers play?
“Researchers are increasingly questioning the time it takes to publish their work. Many say that they feel trapped in a cycle of submission, rejection, review, re-review and re-re-review that seems to eat up months of their lives, interfere with job, grant and tenure applications and slow down the dissemination
- f results”
“He found that the mean review time had roughly doubled in the past decade, from 50–130 days to 150–250 days, depending on the journal . And when Royle looked at eight journals that had published cell- biology papers over the past decade, he found that publication times had lengthened at seven of them, mostly because review times had stretched out..”
Cycle Time
2
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