Motivating Peer Review

Taking the anonymity out of the peer review process for scientific papers could help motivate scientists to spend more time reviewing other scientist’s work:

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21722822-publons-wants-scientists-be-rewarded-assessing-others-work-peer-review

Although the article doesn’t mention it, I’m thinking this could also potentially help scientists stay relevant in their fields when they are doing classified work, and cannot publish their own papers.