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.
The Unjournal was founded by , who maintains this wiki/GitBook and other resources.
See our "" at Unjournal.org for an updated profile of our team members
( 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)
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).