Blockchain-based peer review system

Abstract

Major sectors are employing the use of blockchain technology to enhance their day-to-day operations. Educational services is one such sector with the government of Singapore developing a large-scale blockchain certificate verification system to improve the education sector. This project will further boost the adoption of blockchain technology in the education space with the development of a peer review decentralised application. This application will be developed with the decentralised, transparent and secure nature of the Ethereum blockchain as the foundation. This peer review decentralised application will allow an administrator to start peer review sessions. The administrator creates teams and assigns peers to their respective teams in the peer review session. The administrator can then start the peer review session where peers use typed evaluations or use a rating system to evaluate/review their fellow peers. Reviews made are final and cannot be modified. This project aims to produce a peer review system that is transparent and immutable which is the key to tackling the problems of fake reviews plaguing traditional scholarly peer reviews, and at the same time providing the security and confidentiality features for student peer evaluation processes.