# Our policies: evaluation & workflow

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**Video overview:** Two minute overview of our 6-step evaluation process.
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The Unjournal Process: How We Evaluate Research
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### 1. Project submission, selection and prioritization

People and organizations submit their own research or suggest research they believe may be high-impact. The Unjournal also directly monitors key sources of research and research agendas. Our team then systematically *prioritizes* this research for evaluation. *See the link below for further details.*

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[Project submission, selection and prioritization](/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/policies-projects-evaluation-workflow/considering-projects.md)
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### 2. Evaluation

2. We choose an *evaluation manager* for each research paper or project. They commission and compensate expert *evaluators* to rate and discuss the research, following our evaluation template and [guidelines](/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/policies-projects-evaluation-workflow/evaluation/guidelines-for-evaluators.md). The original research authors are given a chance to publicly respond before we post these evaluations. *See the link below for further details.*

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[Evaluation](/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/policies-projects-evaluation-workflow/evaluation.md)
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### 3. Communicating results

We make all of this evaluation work public on [our PubPub page](https://unjournal.pubpub.org/), along with an *evaluation summary.* We create DOIs for each element and submit this work to scholarly search engines. We also present a summary and analysis of our [evaluation ratings data](https://unjournal.shinyapps.io/DataExplorer/).

*We outline some further details in the link below.*

[Communicating results](/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/policies-projects-evaluation-workflow/communicating-results.md)

### Flowchart

*See* [Mapping evaluation workflow](/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/policies-projects-evaluation-workflow/mapping-evaluation-workflow.md) *for a full 'flowchart' map of our evaluation workflow*

## Other approaches

We are also piloting several initiatives that involve a different process. See:

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["Pivotal questions"](/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/pivotal-questions.md)
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[Independent evaluations](/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/readme-1/call-for-participants-research/independent-evaluations-trial.md)
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[Mapping evaluation workflow](/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/policies-projects-evaluation-workflow/mapping-evaluation-workflow.md)
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