Atmospheric Reviews

Scientific peer review is slow, opaque, gameable, and platform-captured. Reviewers receive no portable credit; readers cannot inspect the actual review when it would be most useful (post-publication, alongside the article); funders cannot tell good review work from poor.

As more research moves toward AT Protocol-based, modular research workflows (ATScience), the question becomes urgent: what does review look like on this substrate?

• A modular review protocol — review as a composition of evaluation primitives (claim-level assessment, method check, replication check, novelty judgment) rather than a monolithic letter. Each primitive is an AT Protocol record, signed by its author, citable on its own.
• atmospheric.reviews coordination layer — software for soliciting, composing, and surfacing reviews against research artifacts published in the ATScience ecosystem.
• Reviewer-owned credit — reviews are DID-linked AT Protocol records; portable identity carries review history across institutions and platforms; aggregation views surface contribution patterns without platform lock-in.
• Reference deployments — end-to-end pilot review cycles with at least two real research communities in the BiTS / ATScience portfolio.

The protocol design extends ongoing work presented in the SFU 2026 lecture on atmospheric reviews and builds on ATScience infrastructure.

Modular review primitives are specified as AT Protocol Lexicons; conformance and composition rules are verifiable by tooling rather than by editorial discretion. Federated by design — any community can run its own review front-end against the shared protocol.

Aligned with Modal Foundation / Eurosky for European hosting.