The Unjournal

Public journal-independent feedback, rating, and evaluation of hosted papers and dynamically-presented research projects.

In a nutshell

The Unjournal does not 'publish research’: organize and fund public journal-independent feedback, quantitative rating, and evaluation of hosted papers and dynamically-presented research projects. We focus on work that is highly relevant to global priorities (especially in economics, social science, and impact evaluation). We aim to make rigorous research more impactful, and impactful research more rigorous.

Goals and intentions

Peer review is great, but academic publication processes are wasteful, slow, and rent-extracting. They discourage innovation and encourage a great deal of effort spent 'gaming the system'. We will both provide an immediate alternative and also offer a bridge to a better system. We aim to make rigorous research more impactful, and impactful research more rigorous. We focus on research that has the potential for substantial impact on global priorities, particularly in economics, social science, and impact evaluation fields. We will pay evaluators to assess research, discuss it, and give quantitative ratings and predictions.

Project status

Active

Types of outputs

Review process

Review requested by

Authors, Non-authors
Reviewer selected by

Editor, service, or community
Public interaction

No
Author response

Yes
Decision

Other scale or rating

Review policy

Review coverage

Complete paper
Reviewer identity known to

Editor or service
Competing interests

Not included

Social Networks

Review features

Manuscript hosting

No
Notes
- We will pay evaluators.
- We will ask for quantitative assessments and predictions across several categories, as well as overall. We aim to benchmark ‘traditional publication outcomes’, to allow evaluations to eventually replace these.
- We ask evaluators to express their level of confidence (credible interval) over their ratings and predictions
Review of code or data

No
Eligible reviewers/editors

Invited by editors.
Tags or badges

No

Transparency

Results

Number of scholarly outputs commented on

1-10
Metrics

We are asking both evaluators and authors for feedback. We have not created a systematic survey for this yet, but we would like to.

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