$150 per peer review, paid to the reviewer. Every review public. Turnaround averages about 10 days.
One live test of an alternative to gatekeeping review. One unsolved part: hiring and grant committees still count papers.
If it's isn't obvious already, it is the end of papers as a measure of productivity, expertise or accomplishment. The odds of publishing in "glam" conferences & journals also very quickly approaches random & the time for gate keeping review increasing exponentially. 1/
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How it works: a review must pass a quality check before the $150 pays out (in RSC, priced in USD). Reviews don't gate funding. They sit in public next to the work, and each reviewer builds a track record.
Open review bounties: researchhub.com/earn
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