[RangerScience]

Seems like this could pair well with the journal crisis and suggestions to implement a blockchain journal: Your paper cannot be accepted by the journal unless it includes executable code; the results of which are then injected into the "paper" view...?

So, basically - a paper consists of what it takes to replicate the paper, and the blockchain journal's first step is running the replication.

This would be problematic for papers that require expensive computation, however...

[zrobotics]

So where, exactly, is a block chain required here? Everything you listed could just as easily be a requirement set by the journal, after all. I mean, every journal has at least some requirements already (at the very least, nearly all require publishing in a specific language). So aside from jumping on the blockchain bandwagon just because that's the new exciting thing, what value is added here?

Good God, I'm getting tired of every single thing needing use the magic word 'blockchain' ATM.

[RangerScience]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16737642

It actually seems like journals could benefit from the application of this technology.

So yes, you don't need a block chain to set these requirements, and if you're using a blockchain you don't need these requirements, _but_, a blockchain journal and these requirements would likely pair very well together, as they cover respective weak-points (centralized journals might only ensure the journal's publisher can replicate; decentralized journals have to have some kind of automated validation).

Buzzwords become buzzwords because there's something to them, after all.