Why Unjournal?

What do we offer? How does it improve upon traditional academic review/publishing?

Reshaping academic evaluation: Beyond accept/reject: The Unjournal's process reduces the high costs and "gaming" associated with standard journal publication mechanisms.

Promoting open and robust science: We promote research replicability and robustness in line with the RRC agenda.

Global priorities: Theory of Change (Logic Model): We prioritize impactful work. Expert evaluators focus on reliability, robustness, and usefulness. This fosters a productive bridge between high-profile mainstream researchers and global-impact-focused organizations, researchers, and practitioners.

Open, reliable, and useful evaluation: We open up the evaluation process, making it more timely and transparent, and providing valuable public metrics and feedback for the benefit of authors, other researchers, and policymakers who may want to use the research..

Promoting 'Dynamic Documents' and 'Living Research Projects': By separating evaluation from journal publication, free research from the static 'PDF prisons'. This enables "dynamic documents/notebooks" that boost transparency and replicability, improved research communication through web-based formats. It also facilitates "living projects": research that can continuously grow, improving in response to feedback and incorporating new data and methods in the same environment.