Have you ever heard of the Lunyr? It's an open source peer review Wikipedia on the ethereum blockchain. It might be even more suitable for your endeavor than steemit. The just started in open beta and the founder Team seems open towards the idea to challenge peer reviewed journals. (I asked this question a few months ago on reddit https://www.google.de/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/Lunyr/comments/6p1e51/might_lunyr_be_able_to_shake_up_scientific/)
Perhaps you can reach out to them. Best of luck. I followed you now and will pay close attention on what might come, I am in the beginning of my PhD and really don't want my research work only helping CEOs to get richer.