Figure 1.

Illustration depicting the three stages of our proposed change in the current publishing system. In a first stage, the NBS system acts as an add-on to our current publishing system and starts collecting data. In a second stage, the NBS system takes over the peer review system by automatically suggesting and collecting reviews of articles submitted by the editorial offices. In a third stage, scientists directly submit articles to the NBS system independent of the journal in which the article might be published.