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The Unjournal commissions public expert evaluation of open-access research: to make rigorous research more impactful and impactful research more rigorous. We prioritize work that concretely informs global priorities, focusing on economics, quantitative social science, and policy.
Today's research evaluation process is out-of-date. Traditional journals capture rents while discouraging innovative formats. The current publish-or-perish incentive diverts researcher energy away from their core work and towards playing strategic journal-submission games.
The Unjournal provides open, rigorous evaluation, focusing on credibility, robustness, transparency, communication, and usefulness. We make it easier for researchers to get feedback and credible assessment of their work, so they can focus on doing better and more useful research. We publish and disseminate these evaluation reports and benchmarked ratings; often far earlier than traditional journals. This helps policymakers understand what research to trust and how to use it, and it helps other researchers and students learn from the critique and discussion.
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About The Unjournal
The Unjournal in a nutshell (and more)
Get involved
Apply to join our team, join our evaluator pool, do an independent evaluation, submit research, and more
Our team
Management, advisors, research field specialists, contractors
Our plan of action
The Unjournal pilot and beyond
Research with impact potential database
Includes work we evaluated and are considering
FAQs for Authors
For authors submitting research, & whose work we're considering or evaluating.
Unjournal evaluations+
Evaluations, ratings, summaries, responses (PubPub)
Map of our workflow
Flowchart and description of our intake and evaluation processes
Guidelines for evaluators
What we ask (and pay) evaluators to do