So far we developed the project without any funding. In order to apply for an NIH and SBIR grant we founded a company a shor time ago. It is called Verum Analytics. Find our website, the home of the R-factor, here: www.verumanalytics.io
However, to go make this a reality we need the input from those who are affected most: All sorts of researchers of all sorts of fields and all sorts of career stages. We plan to further grow the corpus. The annotated corpus itself will (obviously!) be distributed under Creative Commons licenses and available for everyone! For the algorithm and the software behind it: We are considering an Apache 2.0 license to take the libraries used into account.
We strongly believe a better scientific world is possible. It is not publishers, funders or the public that will change the way researchers do research. It is researchers themselves who have the ability to disrupt the system. The R-Factor is our proposal to rethink incentives!
Blogpost written by Sean Rife, Josh Nicholson, Yuri Lazebnik and Peter Grabitz, who make up Verum Analytics (www.VerumAnalytics.io)