'Conditional embargos' & exceptions
You can request a conditional embargo by emailing us at contact@unjournal.org, or via the submission/response form. Please explain what sort of embargo you are asking for, and why. By default, we'd like Unjournal evaluations to be made public promptly.
However, we may make exceptions in special circumstances particularly
for very early-career researchers who are not clearly High professional status/less career-sensitive,
where the research is not obviously already influencing a substantial amount of funding in impact-relevant areas, or substantially influencing policy considerations
If there is an early-career researcher on the authorship team, we may allow authors to "embargo" the publication of the evaluation until a later date. Evaluators (referees) will be informed of this. This date can be contingent, but it should not be indefinite.
For example, we might grant an embargo that lasts until after a PhD/postdoc’s upcoming job market or until after publication in a mainstream journal, with a hard maximum of 14 months. (Of course, embargoes can be ended early at the request of the authors.)
In exceptional circumstances we may consider granting a ""
Some examples of possible embargos (need approval)
Note: the above are all exceptions to our regular rules, examples of embargos we might or might not agree to.
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