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 roles.

• David Reinstein, Founder and Co-director

• Gavin Taylor, Interdisciplinary Researcher at IGDORE; Co-director

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

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

• Hansika Kapoor, Research Author at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala (India)

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

• Emmanuel Orkoh, Research Scientist (fellow) at North-West University (South Africa)

• Anirudh Tagat, Research Author at the Department of Economics at Monk Prayogshala (India)

Advisory board

See description under roles.

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

Jonathan Berman, Associate Professor of Marketing, London Business School

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

Gary Charness, Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara

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

Jordan Dworkin, Metascience Program Lead, Federation of American Scientists

Jake Eaton, Managing Editor at Asterisk Mag: writing and research on global health, development, and nutrition

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

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

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

Conor Hughes, PhD Student, Applied Economics, University of Minnesota

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

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

Michael Wiebe, 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 here for a description of this role).

Staff, contractors, and consultants

Jordan Pieters, Operations generalist

Kynan Behan, Generalist assistance

Laura Sofia-Castro, Communications (academic research/policy)

Adam Steinberg, Communications and copy-editing

Toby Weed, Communications and consulting

Nesim Sisa, technical software support

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

We are a member of Knowledge Futures. 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 List of people consulted (in ACX grant proposal).

Related: EA/global priorities seminar series

Plan of action

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.