Permissioned Blockchain Technologies for Academic Publishing

TL;DR

This paper explores how permissioned blockchain technologies, especially Hyperledger Fabric, can be utilized to address key challenges in academic publishing by enhancing transparency, trust, and collaboration.

Contribution

It provides an overview of permissioned blockchain technologies and discusses their potential applications in improving academic publishing processes.

Findings

Blockchain can improve transparency and trust in peer review.

Permissioned blockchains offer controlled access suitable for academic publishing.

Potential to reduce issues like predatory publishing and enhance reputation management.

Abstract

Academic publishing is continuously evolving with the gradual adoption of new technologies. Blockchain is a new technology that promises to change how individuals and organizations interact across various boundaries. The adoption of blockchains is beginning to transform diverse industries such as finance, supply chain, international trade, as well as energy and resource management and many others. Through trust, data immutability, decentralized distribution of data, and facilitation of collaboration without the need for centralized management and authority, blockchains have the potential to transform the academic publishing domain and to address some of the current problems such as productivity and reputation management, predatory publishing, transparent peer-review processes and many others. In this paper, we outline the technologies available in the domain of permissioned blockchains with focus on Hyperledger Fabric and discuss how they can be leveraged in the domain of academic publishing.