The Longevist
An overlay journal curates high-impact longevity research quarterly, with articles sourced from preprint servers and selected through on-chain voting by industry and academic experts.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:58 PM
Projects should directly support the mission of DeSci to innovate scientific research by exploring novel mechanisms of funding, conducting, and disseminating scientific research in an open, inclusive, and accessible manner.
The Longevist project seems to align with the mission of DeSci by creating a decentralized platform for curating impactful longevity research and disseminating it via a voting system of KOLs on blockchain technology.
DeSci projects most commonly support this mission by building and testing necessary technological infrastructure, but projects may also be eligible if they are deploying existing DeSci infrastructure in a scientific research context or if they are educating and recruiting members of the scientific community to contribute to the mission.
The project is deploying existing DeSci infrastructure (e.g., Snapshot for on-chain voting and DeSciLabs for blockchain-based article storage) within the scientific research context of longevity studies and is recruiting industry and academic KOLs.
Concrete examples of issues covered by the DeSci mission include: the data reproducibility crisis and archaic data sharing practices; misaligned incentives and poor practices in scientific publishing and peer review; financial, linguistic, and academic barriers to globally inclusive research; intellectual property, patents, and financial incentives to trade progress for profits; academic disconnect and poor science/health literacy and trust in the lay public and government representatives.
The project addresses issues of scientific publishing and peer review by enabling a transparent, peer-to-peer curation process for longevity research, which could indirectly contribute to data reproducibility and open sharing practices.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Insufficient information is provided to determine whether 'The Longevist' meets the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy. No details were given regarding compliance with general policies or terms of service.