ResearchHub Foundation is the decentralized community governed organization that is aligned with ResearchHub Inc in the mission of accelerating the pace of science. ResearchHub Inc has developed a platform (www.researchhub.com) that leverages token incentivization to facilitate open science best practices in the realm of publishing, peer review and science communication. 

The ResearchHub Foundation is leveraging the ResearchHub platform to host and manage paid peer review through a curated set of around 20 editors/peer reviewers who provide detailed review of pre-print articles. One of the largest issues in traditional academia is this vestigial system of journals and antiquated system of peer review. This limits the accessibility and speed of scientific information being disseminated by months to years. 

Additionally, the ResearchHub Foundation recently hosted a reputation hackathon which helped lay the foundation conceptually for a DeSci wide reputation algorithm. Currently, in traditional academia a researchers reputation is defined by a univariate algorithm based on citations. Although this is 1 important aspect of an individuals reputation, ResearchHub Foundation believes there should be a multivariate approach to better encompass what a researchers reputation is including success in funding, how reproducible is your work, attendance and participation in conferences and other important newer DeSci native activities. We will be focused on developing a tangible robust open source reputation algorithm that we hope other projects can use and layer on their own platforms activities. 
