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RE: Academic paper publishing using Steem platform
This looks very similar to a journal from my field, the Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP).
- This journal has a very good reputation and high impact factor.
- The journal is free and anyone can download any published article for free.
- Moreover, the referees are paid (I do not know for the editors).
The complicated point with the above proposal is to have a decent pool of reviewers (that must be well-recognized experts in their field). And the peer-review system must be the one deciding about the quality of the papers (and not the users).
Moreover, although we do not need anymore printed copies of the scientific papers, we do need a search engine. In my field we have Inspire (inspirehep.net) that is connected to the arxiv (arxiv.org) where all preprints can be found for free (even those published in journals that must be bought). Researchers are submitting their papers there before submitting them to the journals.
@lemouth indeed, if anything, we would like your precious inputs for #pevo, would like to invite you to #pevo. Would you be interested?
Thanks a lot for the invitation. That is very kind of you. I am always available to discuss ideas, provide ideas, describe my own experience, etc. (so the answer to your invitation is a yes). However, if you would like me to get involved more deeply, I would like to wait and see how things evolve.
Note that from a more personal standpoint, I see for the moment Steemit as a place where I could contribute to scientific divulgation :)