A bug bounty program in science

I asked for that earlier [2019,2022] while only now this idea is being taken up, see https://error.reviews/

https://error.reviews/advisory-board/ screenshot 17-Feb-2023

and well also nNature journalist is covering the story 6 months later.

With funding from the Humans in Digital Transformation programme, a fund to drive a digitalization strategy at the University of Bern, which has offered the project 4 years of support and 250,000 Swiss francs (US$289,000), reviewers are paid up to 1,000 francs for each paper they check. They get a bonus for any errors they find, with bigger bonuses for bigger errors — for example, those that result in a major correction notice or a retraction — up to a maximum of 2,500 francs.


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