i commented on the scihub article(o) posted earlier today by suggesting a possible solution to the issues that research publication is facing right now<p>the idea is to build a marketplace for peer review around an open publication, alike arxiv.org, that confers reputation and encourages multiple reviews<p>if a person hires a peer reviewer to review their work or someone else&#x27;s, but you are skeptical of the review, you can hire a reviewer that you respect to do an independent review, one which could uphold or dispute the original review, or even illuminate some further clarification<p>such a community would address the issue of these &#x27;hoax&#x27; and convoluted papers directly<p>(o) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11177957" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11177957</a>