ARTiFACTS and Scienceroot to Collaborate to Expand Use of Blockchain in Scientific Research and Scholarly Publishing Scienceroot Follow Jun 25, 2018 · 3 min read

Blockchain Companies to Focus Initially on Cross-Integrating Attribution,

Wallet and Platform Capabilities

Cambridge, MA and Timisoara, RO — JUNE 25, 2018 — ARTiFACTS, creator of the world’s first blockchain-based collaboration and attribution platform for scholarly research, and Scienceroot, the first blockchain-based scientific ecosystem integrating social networking, a funding platform, and decentralized publishing mechanism, have formed an alliance to advance the use of blockchain in scientific research and scholarly publishing.

Applying an open science model to their own product development initiatives, ARTiFACTS and Scienceroot will collaborate to improve researcher workflows, streamline new technology development, and explore new applications for blockchain-based solutions tailored to the scientific research and scholarly publishing community. The two companies will draw on their respective areas of expertise in scholarly publishing indexing and attribution (ARTiFACTS) and social networking and smart contracting (Scienceroot) to accelerate the use of blockchain technologies in the sciences.

“ARTiFACTS and Scienceroot are both working on complementary solutions to challenges that exist at different points in the scholarly research workflow, from solidifying attribution for individual research artifacts to tracking and indexing previous work to networking and contracting with other researchers and sponsors,” said ARTiFACTS President and Co-Founder, Courtney Morris. “By leveraging our collective capabilities and insights, we believe we will be able to not only speed development of new solutions, but also deliver more harmonized end-to-end solutions for the research community.”

Specific projects on which ARTiFACTS and Scienceroot have already begun collaborating, include solutions that integrate the ARTiFACTS attribution and citation capabilities with Scienceroot’s social networking and funding apparatus, integration of Scienceroot’s wallet and note booking capabilities on the ARTiFACTS platform, and the development of standards to ensure interoperability between blockchain-based scientific research solutions.

“ARTiFACTS and Scienceroot both have the same goals, which are to improve the creation and indexing of knowledge with the help of blockchain. Blockchain technology provides us the means to solving some of the problems the current scientific community is facing. Scienceroot aims to create an immutable and unimpeachable environment, so that researchers may collaborate, share their work and disseminate their results without the need to trust a third party. We believe that the collaboration among researchers and people aiming for the same target is vital. Therefore we join forces with ARTiFACTS to provide better solutions, adapted to the needs of the academic and scientific community” said Scienceroot Co-Founders Vlad Günther and Alexandru Chirita.

For more information on the ARTiFACTS platform, visit artifacts.ai. For more information on Scienceroot, visit scienceroot.com.