Open-Pub: A Transparent yet Privacy-Preserving Academic Publication System based on Blockchain
Yan Zhou, Zhiguo Wan, Zhangshuang Guan

TL;DR
Open-Pub introduces a blockchain-based academic publication system that ensures transparency, privacy, and traceability in the review process, addressing issues of bias and restricted access in traditional systems.
Contribution
It develops a novel threshold identity-based group signature scheme and a strong double-blind mechanism for privacy-preserving, transparent peer review on blockchain.
Findings
Efficient anonymous transaction processing on Ethereum
Enhanced transparency in peer review process
Effective privacy preservation for authors and reviewers
Abstract
Academic publications of latest research results are crucial to advance the development of all disciplines. However, there are several severe disadvantages in current academic publication systems. The first is the misconduct during the publication process due to the opaque paper review process. An anonymous reviewer may give biased comments to a paper without being noticed because the comments are seldom published for evaluation. Second, access to research papers is restricted to only subscribers, and even the authors cannot access their own papers. To address the above problems, we propose Open-Pub, a decentralized, transparent yet privacy-preserving academic publication scheme using the blockchain technology. In Open-Pub, we first design a threshold identity-based group signature (TIBGS) that protects identities of signers using verifiable secret sharing. Then we develop a strong…
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Taxonomy
TopicsBlockchain Technology Applications and Security · Cryptography and Data Security · Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
