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  • The Unjournal
  • An Introduction to The Unjournal
    • Content overview
    • How to get involved
      • Brief version of call
      • Impactful Research Prize (pilot)
      • Jobs and paid projects with The Unjournal
        • Advisory/team roles (research, management)
        • Administration, operations and management roles
        • Research & operations-linked roles & projects
        • Standalone project: Impactful Research Scoping (temp. pause)
      • Independent evaluations (trial)
        • Reviewers from previous journal submissions
    • Organizational roles and responsibilities
      • Unjournal Field Specialists: Incentives and norms (trial)
    • Our team
      • Reinstein's story in brief
    • Plan of action
    • Explanations & outreach
      • Press releases
      • Outreach texts
      • Related articles and work
    • Updates (earlier)
      • Impactful Research Prize Winners
      • Previous updates
  • Why Unjournal?
    • Reshaping academic evaluation: Beyond accept/reject
    • Promoting open and robust science
    • Global priorities: Theory of Change (Logic Model)
      • Balancing information accessibility and hazard concerns
    • Promoting 'Dynamic Documents' and 'Living Research Projects'
      • Benefits of Dynamic Documents
      • Benefits of Living Research Projects
    • The File Drawer Effect (Article)
    • Open, reliable, and useful evaluation
      • Multiple dimensions of feedback
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
    • For research authors
    • Evaluation ('refereeing')
    • Suggesting and prioritizing research
  • Our policies: evaluation & workflow
    • Project submission, selection and prioritization
      • What research to target?
      • What specific areas do we cover?
      • Process: prioritizing research
        • Prioritization ratings: discussion
      • Suggesting research (forms, guidance)
      • "Direct evaluation" track
      • "Applied and Policy" Track
      • 'Conditional embargos' & exceptions
      • Formats, research stage, publication status
    • Evaluation
      • For prospective evaluators
      • Guidelines for evaluators
        • Why these guidelines/metrics?
        • Proposed curating robustness replication
        • Conventional guidelines for referee reports
      • Why pay evaluators (reviewers)?
      • Protecting anonymity
    • Mapping evaluation workflow
      • Evaluation workflow – Simplified
    • Communicating results
    • Recap: submissions
  • What is global-priorities-relevant research?
  • "Pivotal questions"
    • ‘Operationalizable’ questions
    • Why "operationalizable questions"?
  • Action and progress
    • Pilot steps
      • Pilot: Building a founding committee
      • Pilot: Identifying key research
      • Pilot: Setting up platforms
      • Setting up evaluation guidelines for pilot papers
      • 'Evaluators': Identifying and engaging
    • Plan of action (cross-link)
  • Grants and proposals
    • Survival and Flourishing Fund (successful)
    • ACX/LTFF grant proposal (as submitted, successful)
      • Notes: post-grant plan and revisions
      • (Linked proposals and comments - moved for now)
    • Unsuccessful applications
      • Clearer Thinking FTX regranting (unsuccessful)
      • FTX Future Fund (for further funding; unsuccessful)
      • Sloan
  • Parallel/partner initiatives and resources
    • eLife
    • Peer Communities In
    • Sciety
    • Asterisk
    • Related: EA/global priorities seminar series
    • EA and EA Forum initiatives
      • EA forum peer reviewing (related)
      • Links to EA Forum/"EA journal"
    • Other non-journal evaluation
    • Economics survey (Charness et al.)
  • Management details [mostly moved to Coda]
    • Governance of The Unjournal
    • Status, expenses, and payments
    • Evaluation manager process
      • Choosing evaluators (considerations)
        • Avoiding COI
        • Tips and text for contacting evaluators (private)
    • UJ Team: resources, onboarding
    • Policies/issues discussion
    • Research scoping discussion spaces
    • Communication and style
  • Tech, tools and resources
    • Tech scoping
    • Hosting & platforms
      • PubPub
      • Kotahi/Sciety (phased out)
        • Kotahi: submit/eval/mgmt (may be phasing out?)
        • Sciety (host & curate evals)
    • This GitBook; editing it, etc
    • Other tech and tools
      • Cryptpad (for evaluator or other anonymity)
      • hypothes.is for collab. annotation
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  • Management Committee
  • Advisory board
  • Field Specialists
  • Staff, contractors, and consultants
  • Other people and initiatives we are in touch with

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  1. An Introduction to The Unjournal

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See also: Governance of The Unjournal

The Unjournal was founded by , who maintains this wiki/GitBook and other resources.

The information below may be outdated.

  • See our "" at Unjournal.org for an updated view of our team members.

  • Team members can see more details in our Coda page .

Management Committee

( on terminology)

See description under .

  • , Founder and Co-director

  • , Interdisciplinary Researcher at ; Co-director

  • , Social Scientist and Associate Professor in the Guelph Institute of Development Studies and Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph, Canada

  • , Economics PhD student at the University of California, Merced

  • , Research Author at the Department of Psychology, (India)

  • , Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Environment & Sustainability, Lee Kuan Yew of School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

  • , Research Scientist (fellow) at (South Africa)

  • , Research Author at the Department of Economics at (India)

Advisory board

Field Specialists

Staff, contractors, and consultants

Other people and initiatives we are in touch with

Substantial advice, consultation, collaborative discussions
Some other people we have consulted/communicating, details, other notes
  • Cooper Smout, FoK collaboration possibilities: through their pledges, and through an open access journal Cooper is putting together, which the Unjournal could feed into, for researchers needing a ‘journal with an impact factor’

  • Participants in the GPI seminar luncheon

  • Cecilia Tilli, Foundation to Prevent Antibiotics Resistance and EA research advocate

  • Peter Slattery, Behaviourworks Australia

  • Paola Masuzzo of IGDORE (biologist and advocate of open science)

  • William Sleegers (Psychologist and Data Scientist, Rethink Priorities)

  • Hamish Huggard (Data science, ‘literature maps’)

Related: EA/global priorities seminar series

Plan of action

See description under .

, Infectious Disease Researcher, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

, Associate Professor of Marketing, London Business School

, Applied Researcher (Global Health & Development) at Founder's Pledge

, Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara

, Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Quantitative Methods and Economic Theory at the University of Chieti (Italy)

, Metascience Program Lead, Federation of American Scientists

, Managing Editor at : writing and research on global health, development, and nutrition

, Professor of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia University (New York)

, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne (Australia): expert judgment, biosciences, applied probability, uncertainty quantification

, Late-Stage PhD Student in Information Systems at the University of Cologne, Germany

, PhD Student, Applied Economics, University of Minnesota

Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Interactive Systems and Data Science at Graz University of Technology (Austria)

, Associate Researcher, INRAE, Member, Toulouse School of Economics (France)

, Data Scientist, Economist Consultant; PhD University of British Columbia (Economics)

The table below shows all the members of our team (including field specialists) taking on a research-monitoring role (see for a description of this role).

, Research Specialist: Data science, metascience, aggregation of expert judgment

, Operations generalist

, Generalist assistance

, Communications (academic research/policy)

, Communications and copy-editing

, Communications and consulting

, technical software support

Red Bermejo, Mikee Mercado, Jenny Siers – consulting (through ) on strategy, marketing, and task management tools

We are a member of . They are working with us to update PubPub and incorporate new features (editorial management, evaluation tools, etc.) that will be particularly useful to The Unjournal and other members.

Abel Brodeur, Founder/chair of the

The

, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto

Other academic and policy economists, such as , , , , , and

Cooper Smout, head of

, Center for Open Science

, Faculty Director, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS)

Daniel Saderi,

, who helped me put this proposal together through asking a range of challenging questions and offering his feedback

, Experimental Psychologist at the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), has also completed research with the Open Science Collaboration and the Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative

Paolo Crosetto (Experimental Economics, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment)

Sergey Frolov (Physicist), Prof. J.-S. Caux, Physicist and head of

Alex Barnes, Business Systems Analyst,

Nathan Young ; considering connecting The Unjournal to Metaculus predictions

Edo Arad (mathematician and EA research advocate)

See also (in ACX grant proposal).

roles
Sam Abbott
Jonathan Berman
Rosie Bettle
Gary Charness
Daniela Cialfi
Jordan Dworkin
Jake Eaton
Asterisk Mag
Andrew Gelman
Anca Hanea
Alexander Herwix
Conor Hughes
Jana Lasser,
Nicolas Treich
Michael Wiebe
Jordan Pieters
Kynan Behan
Laura Sofia-Castro
Adam Steinberg
Toby Weed
Nesim Sisa
Anti-Entropy
Knowledge Futures
Institute for Replication
repliCATS project
Eva Vivalt
Julian Jamison
Todd Kaplan
Kate Rockett
David Rhys-Bernard
David Roodman
Anna Dreber Almenberg
https://freeourknowledge.org/
Brian Nosek
Ted Miguel
PreReview
Yonatan Cale
Daniel Lakens
https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/
https://scipost.org/
https://eahub.org/profile/alex-barnes/
https://eahub.org/profile/nathan-young/
https://eahub.org/profile/edo-arad/
List of people consulted
David Reinstein
Team page
here
David Reinstein
Gavin Taylor
IGDORE
Ryan Briggs
Kris Gulati
Hansika Kapoor
Monk Prayogshala
Tanya O'Garra
Emmanuel Orkoh
North-West University
Anirudh Tagat
Monk Prayogshala
roles
Julia Bottesini
here