. The CEO of a journal is deciding the direction of the company, the rules are disseminated through the ranks of the company, and the authors/peer reviewers don’t have a ton of say or ownership in the direction of the journal. DAOs raise the question of whether you can do this without any singular entity making these decisions, and instead, the dec... See more

There seems to be an open debate on whether the current system of peer-review actually weeds out papers correctly. This experiment re-submitted 12 already approved papers and 89% of the peer reviewers said the paper shouldn’t be published. More recently hundreds of sham papers managed to get through the process as scammers posed as guest editors.