Related Initiatives Comparison
This comparison is auto-generated from our internal database. Last updated: February 2026
Highly Related Initiatives
These initiatives share significant overlap with The Unjournal's mission or are active partners.
📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal
Open review/evaluation. Unjournal is an evaluation provider. Emphasis on multiple points of evaluation throughout the research life cycle
🔄 replication/reproducibility/robustness
Goal: Robustness 'replication' of all top published papers in Econ, Poli Sci, etc. Strong template and lots of credible backers. We have planned collaborations with I4Rep.
🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing)
PCI and the Peer Community Journal; See especially the PCI Psychology Community, and to a lesser extent the nascent Economics one
🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing)
PREreview provides ways for feedback to preprints to be done openly, rapidly, constructively, and by a global community of peers.
📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal
Crowdsourced evaluations. Arcadia Science envisions the research project, not just the standalone paper. See https://research.arcadiascience.com/
📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal
We’re in contact/collaboration
📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal
We’re in contact/collaboration
🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing)
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.
Other Related Initiatives
🔄 replication/reproducibility/robustness
"the first certification agency for scientific code & data" -- a possible source of worthy 'open' work
📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal
At least some detailed public evaluations, although they don’t make these as prominent as Unjournal. Founded 2007, owned by DeGruyter from 2020.
🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing)
Connected to Sciety, eLife, etc. Workflow and editorial management platform for open access publishing.
🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing)
Hosts (?) interfaces with multiple archives. "Pre or post-moderation". Facilitates and encourages (?) Plaudit and PREreview
📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal
"PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine."
🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing)
Plaudit is a third-party tool. OSF seems to encourage it (https://help.osf.io/hc/en-us/articles/360038856834-Endorse-a-Preprint).
🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing)
Hub to upload/link DOI'd research, by subject. Comments and 'costly' upvotes/downvotes (?), no explicit 'reviewing' process. For-profit? "..."
📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal
Has most of Unjournal's features, but no quantitative measures, no external funding for evaluators, and seems very small.
📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal
Optional transparent peer review (author opt-in, for accepted work)
🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing)
Review Commons is a platform for high-quality journal-independent peer-review in the life sciences." Pre-prints reviewed,
Science Open
🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing)
Working with traditional and open journals and trying to bring in stakeholders. Seems to foster academic editor-based curation.
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