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A substantial amount of work is often overlooked due to the exponential rate of growth in global scientific output across all disciplines. Current approaches for addressing this issue are usually limited in scope and often restrict the possibility of obtaining multidisciplinary views in practice. To tackle this problem, researchers can now leverage an ecosystem of citizens, volunteers and crowd workers to perform complex tasks that are either difficult for humans and machines to solve alone. Motivated by the idea that human crowds and computer algorithms have complementary strengths, we present an approach where the machine will learn from crowd behavior in an iterative way. This approach is embodied in the architecture of SciCrowd, a crowd-powered human-machine hybrid system designed to improve the analysis and processing of large amounts of publication records. To validate the proposal's feasibility, a prototype was developed and an initial evaluation was conducted to measure its robustness and reliability. We conclude this paper with a set of implications for design.