Incentivize Peer Review Without Rewarding: Using OSS-Like Citation Pull Request
摘要
Scholarly communication is experiencing significant growth in publication volume. However, due to a lack of incentives, the current peer review system struggles to secure a sufficient number of diverse referees. Learning from the recent success in Open-Source Software (OSS) development, several alternative review models have been proposed, though none have focused on the mechanisms behind contribution-driven development. We introduce Push Citation, which combines a reversed citation with a revision to prior articles. Citation metrics incentivize article owners to perform reviews and encourage contributors to make suggestions. An experiment on workload balancing demonstrates that Push Citation is robust against the increasing demand for reviews and the uneven distribution of the burden. Potential drawbacks and countermeasures are also discussed.