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ScienceNet was born from a personal dream — to make science more meaningful, accessible, and rewarding for every researcher involved.
As a child, I always wanted to create meaningful things that would somehow shape and change the world for the better. During my medical studies, I came to believe that science could be used to shape the world and make it a better place, and I simply had fun while doing research. That is why I chose this path.
As a student, I started by publishing just about anything, but as I gained more experience, I learned to distinguish weak work from the good. I understood what I wanted to do as a scientist. And I wanted to use science to do meaningful things...
However, the world of science has both its wonderful sides and its outdated, frustrating ones. The ScienceNet.online platform is rooted in my dream and aspires to make conducting, and above all, publishing research simpler. We have many problems to solve, but we decided to tackle the peer-review process first.
Bartosz Sobocki
Founder, ScienceNet.online
Peer review — the cornerstone of scientific publishing — is broken in four key ways:
- Waiting time
- Long — submissions often wait months before a review is completed.
- Review quality
- Leaves much to be desired — inconsistency undermines the value of peer review.
- Use of technology
- Limited — tools are rarely tailored to the real needs of researchers.
- Compensation
- Non-existent — scientists receive nothing for the time they invest in reviewing.
That is why we have assembled a team consisting of scientists, software engineers, and business scaling experts, and together we are striving to boost this process. We have a new concept.
At ScienceNet.online, we have created a service designed to shorten review times, elevate review quality, support scientists with continuously developed technological tools — which they will co-create with us by selecting the best ones — and introduce fair compensation for the time spent on reviews.
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