# Our policies: evaluation & workflow

### 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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[considering-projects](https://globalimpact.gitbook.io/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/~/changes/536/policies-projects-evaluation-workflow/considering-projects)
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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](https://globalimpact.gitbook.io/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/~/changes/536/policies-projects-evaluation-workflow/evaluation/guidelines-for-evaluators). 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](https://globalimpact.gitbook.io/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/~/changes/536/policies-projects-evaluation-workflow/evaluation)
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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/). 

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\&#xNAN;*We outline some further details in the link below.*

[communicating-results](https://globalimpact.gitbook.io/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/~/changes/536/policies-projects-evaluation-workflow/communicating-results "mention") 

### Flowchart

*See the link below for a full 'flowchart' map of our evaluation workflow*

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[mapping-evaluation-workflow](https://globalimpact.gitbook.io/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/~/changes/536/policies-projects-evaluation-workflow/mapping-evaluation-workflow)
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