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The solution is already in place and widely used. You use it every time you blog about someone else's blog post. You are actually reviewing it openly and allow further interaction and improvement. Your blogging platform gives you identity (important so no one can forge a review) and also the technical means to track references (trackbacks and such). The only thing to do is to have a system that navigates the web of reports, comments, links and update a score every time an article is identified on someone's blog that is known as a trusted reviewer. Efforts are underway to completely automate this process.

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How about the same way that Credit Ratings Agencies get paid. How do S&P and Moody's get paid? Who pays to have investments rated?

We have seen how well that system works. If it is good enough to rate trillions of dollars of assets, surely it must be good enough to rate science papers.

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