See also: Governance of The Unjournal

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

Management Committee

(Note 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

Advisory board

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)

Field Specialists

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).

Staff, contractors, and consultants

, 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.

Other people and initiatives we are in touch with

See also (in ACX grant proposal).

davidreinstein.org

I was in academia for about 20 years (PhD Economics, UC Berkeley; Lecturer, University of Essex; Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter). I saw how the journal system was broken.

• Academics constantly complain about it (but don't do anything to improve it).

• Most conversations are not about research, but about 'who got into what journal' and 'tricks for getting your paper into journals'

• Open science and replicability are great, and dynamic documents make research a lot more transparent and readable. But these goals and methods are very hard to apply within the traditional journal system and its 'PDF prisons'.

Now I'm working outside academia and can stick my neck out. I have the opportunity to help fix the system. I work with research organizations and large philanthropists involved with effective altruism and global priorities. They care about the results of research in areas that are relevant to global priorities. They want research to be reliable, robust, reasoning-transparent, and well-communicated. Bringing them into the equation can change the game.