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RE: Connecting Steemit, scientific research and academia?
I am hopeful that the Steemit platform will have discrete categories, as funding research would be difficult in the website's current state. I also am not entirely positive that publishing papers on Steemit will be widely received or accepted by administrators. Even bePress is barely being given notice, and this repository is specifically built with academic research in mind with the added benefit of peer-review built in the system (if you pay for it) . But funding research proposals is definitely a possibility. A revolution in funding is necessary, especially for many cash-strapped organizations and the competition in grants.
... and by academic people as well. Habits are difficult to change :)
One major problem with the platform for publishing academic papers is that it would be difficult to address impact. A tracking mechanism would need to be created to track citations forward and backwards, a la Citation Reports or Google Citations
Check the inspire link I am mentioning in my post. It does all of this (assuming a database with papers exists) :)