Selecting Scientific Papers for Publication via Citation Auctions

The scientific community has been suffering from peer review for decades. This process (also called refereeing) subjects an author's scientific work or ideas to the scrutiny of one or more experts in the field. Publishers use it to select and screen manuscript submissions, and funding agencies...

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Published in:IEEE intelligent systems 2007-11, Vol.22 (6), p.16-20
Main Authors: de la Rosa, J.L., Szymanski, B.K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
auction
Avaluació
Awards
Bibliographical citations
citation
Citations
Collaborative work
Communities
Conferences
Contracts
Costs
Currencies
Documents
Engineering profession
Evaluation
Intelligent systems
Investigació
Literatura científica
Peer review
publication selection process
Referències bibliogràfiques
Scholarly publishing
Scientific literature
Scientific papers
Scientists
Writers
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Summary:The scientific community has been suffering from peer review for decades. This process (also called refereeing) subjects an author's scientific work or ideas to the scrutiny of one or more experts in the field. Publishers use it to select and screen manuscript submissions, and funding agencies use it to award research funds. The goal is to get authors to meet their discipline's standards and thus achieve scientific objectivity. Publications and awards that haven't undergone peer review are often regarded with suspicion by scholars and professionals in many fields. However, peer review, although universally used, has many drawbacks. We propose replacing peer review with an auction-based approach: the better the submitted paper, the more scientific currency the author likely bid to have it published. If the bid correctly reflects the paper's quality, the author is rewarded in this new scientific currency; otherwise, the author loses this currency. We argue that citations are an appropriate currency for all scientists. We believe that citation auctions encourage scientists to better control their submissions' quality. It also inspire them to prepare more exciting talks for accepted papers and to invite discussion of their results at congresses and conferences and among their colleagues. In the long run, citation auctions could have the power to greatly improve scientific research.
ISSN:1541-1672
1941-1294
DOI:10.1109/MIS.2007.117