Updates (earlier)

January 2026: We now publish updates primarily on our main website news page and on social media.

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March 25 2024: Workshop: Innovations in Research Evaluation, Replicability, and Impact

Research evaluation is changing: New approaches go beyond the traditional journal model, promoting transparency, replicability, open science, open access, and global impact. You can be a part of this.

Join us on March 25 for an interactive workshop, featuring presentations from Macie Daley (Center for Open Science), David Reinstein (The Unjournal), Gary Charness (UC Santa Barbara), and The Unjournal's Impactful Research Prize and Evaluator Prize winners.

See the event page here for all details.

Jan 2024: Impactful Research and Evaluation Prizes winners announced

Impactful Research Prize Winners

Aug. 30, 2023: "Pilot's done, what has been won (and learned)?"

Pilot = completed!

With the completed set of evaluations of "Do Celebrity Endorsements Matter? A Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia" and "The Governance of Non-Profits and Their Social Impact: Evidence from a Randomized Program in Healthcare in DRC," our pilot was complete:

• 10 research papers evaluated

• 21 evaluations

• 5 author responses

You can see all our published evaluations at unjournal.pubpub.org.

For continuously updated statistics, see our interactive dashboard and data analysis site.

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