GitPaper: A Networked Model of Scientific Review and Dissemination
Abstract
Duke University seeks three years of grant funding to develop GitPaper, a new system that reimagines scholarly review and disseminat""ion. It introduces collaborative review, an alternative to traditional peer review. Collaborative review works within existing commu"nities to enable scholars to help one another improve their work through efficient online annotation tools. It utilizes data from the collaborative review to develop a new ranking algorithm and discoveryplatform for academic works.GitPaper empowers scholarly an"d scientific communities, such as seminars, conferences, or working groups, to makeit easier to share constructive feedback with au"thors. In developing and piloting the platform Duke would partner with several groups to more efficiently sharing working papers wit"h one another, and allow members of the community to provide feedback to authors in advance of a discussion. Rather than posting a P""DF to a website, they would be shared via GitPaper. Access would be controlled by the community. Members of the group would provide" online feedback to help improve a working paper. (The most helpful commenters would be rewarded through virtual credit.) At the end ofthe collaborative review the paper would be ~stamped~ as having been reviewed and improved (though not necessarily endorsed) by that community.Data emerging from the review would feed the dissemination side of GitPaper. We would develop a ranking algorithm that uses engagement with a paper and other metrics to develop a new quality measure that could scalably rank large amounts of scho"larship. In the short term, GitPaper will make working groups more efficient, and enable them to more quickly and efficiently improv""e the quality of a paper. In the long term, we believe the combination of quality signals from these groups, and the new ranking sys""tems we develop to complement existing repositories, has the potential tosupplant traditional peer review and peer reviewed journal"s.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2017
- Source ID
- N000141712781
Entities
People
- Guillermo Sapiro
Organizations
- Duke University
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy