Related Initiatives Comparison

This comparison is auto-generated from our internal database. Last updated: January 2026

Highly Related Initiatives

These initiatives share significant overlap with The Unjournal's mission or are active partners.

Initiative	Type	Notes
COS LifeCycle Journal	📄 Open public evaluation initiat	Open review/evaluation. Unjournal is an evaluation provider. Emphasis on multiple points of evaluation throughout the research life cycle
Institute for Replication	🔄 replication/reproducibility/ro	Goal: Robustness 'replication' of all top published papers in Econ, Poli Sci, etc. Strong template and lots of credible backers. A possible partner for unjournal.
Peer Communities In (PCI)/ PCI Journal	🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin	PCI and the Peer Community Journal; See especially the PCI Psychology Community, and to a lesser extent the nascent Economics one
Pre-print review initiative (PREreview)	🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin	We provide ways for feedback to preprints to be done openly, rapidly, constructively, and by a global community of peers." Distinctions/limitations: More of a platform than an initiative. Mostly bot
Sciety	🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin	Sciety: 'curation' ... make it easier to access preprints and reviewers across platforms. We used their platform to some extent and may do so in the future. Some considerations, e.g., only able to in
Arcadia	📄 Open public evaluation initiat	Crowdsourced evaluations? Suggested by Stuart Buck. I love how Arcadia Science envisions the research project not just the standalone paper.https://research.arcadiascience.com/ https://research.arcadi
PCI Economics	📄 Open public evaluation initiat	We're in contact/collaboration
PCI Psychology	📄 Open public evaluation initiat	We’re in contact/collaboration
PRC Alliance (Publish, Review, Curate)	🤝 Open science collaboration
PubPub	🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin	We use PubPub to host our evaluations at unjournal.pubpub.org. It has many strong features and we continue to collaborate with Knowledge Futures on development.
eLife (hosted within Sciety)	📄 Open public evaluation initiat	"eLife's is/was a fairly well respected (?) journal in Life Sciences. Their New Model (originally called 'publish, review, curate') was big news. Their three month update seems fairly stable/successf

Other Related Initiatives

Initiative	Type	Notes
Cascad	🔄 replication/reproducibility/ro	"the first certification agency for scientific code & data" -- a possible source of worthy 'open' work
Economics e-journal	📄 Open public evaluation initiat	At least some detailed public evaluations, although they don’t make these as prominent as Unjournal. Founded 2007, owned by DeGruyter from 2020. Archi
Kotahi	🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin	Connected to Sciety, Elife etc. They were once hosting our editorial management platform and linking the output with a Sciety group; something we tho
OSF Preprints	🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin	Hosts (?) interfaces with multiple archives. "Pre or post-moderation". Facilitates and encourages (?) Plaudit and PREreview
Openreview.net	📄 Open public evaluation initiat	Mostly CS
PLOS 'Published Peer Review"	📄 Open public evaluation initiat	"PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in resea
Plaudit - endorse a preprint	🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin	Plaudit is a third-party tool. OSF seems to encourage it (https://help.osf.io/hc/en-us/articles/360038856834-Endorse-a-Preprint). You can endorse the
ResearchHub	🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin	Hub to upload/link DOI'd research, by subject. Comments and 'costly' upvotes/downvotes (?), no explicit 'reviewing' process. For-profit? "... a modern
Scipost	📄 Open public evaluation initiat	Making good inroads in physics+ Distinctions/considerations: physics+-focused, exclusive publishing, may not allow dynamic formats or continuous impro
Alethia	📄 Open public evaluation initiat	Has most of Unjournal's features, but no quantitative measures, no external funding for evaluators, and seems very small. A platform for disseminatin
In&vertebrates	📄 Open public evaluation initiat
Nature Human Behavior	📄 Open public evaluation initiat	Optional transparent peer review (author opt-in, for accepted work)
ReviewCommons	🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin	Review Commons is a platform for high-quality journal-independent peer-review in the life sciences." Pre-prints reviewed, streams into (regular and OA
Science Open	🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin	Working with traditional and open journals and trying to bring in stakeholders. Seems to foster academic editor-based curation. But tied to traditiona
SqARE	📄 Open public evaluation initiat	Nascent? Econometrics focused, not sure if it will get off the ground
Stanford Program on Research Rigor & Reproducibility (SPORR)	🤝 Open science collaboration	Focus on medicine?

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