...Allan Farias Fávaro; Roderval Marcelino; Cristian Cechinel Purpose This paper presents a review of the state of the art on the application of blockchain and smart contracts to the peer-review process of scientific papers. The paper seeks to analyse how the main characteristics of the existing...

... in traditional academic publishing services. To address the problem leveraging on the power of this practice, the authors introduce into preprint a self-organizing peer review method by applying the concept of token economy and the blockchain technology. Design/methodology/approach Specifically, this paper...