The Unjournal

Director

## The Unjournal: Overview

The Unjournal commissions the public journal-independent evaluation, rating, and communication of research, focusing on credibility and global impact.

**From our home page: [Unjournal.org](Unjournal.org)**

> The Unjournal is making research better by evaluating what really matters. We aim to make rigorous research more impactful and impactful research more rigorous. The academic journal system is out-of-date, discourages innovation, and encourages rent-seeking. We provide open, rigorous evaluation, focused on what's practically important to researchers, policy-makers, and the world. We make it easier for researchers to get feedback and credible ratings of their work.  We currently focus on quantitative work that informs global priorities, especially in economics, policy, and social science.

Our coverage includes global health and pandemics, economic development, global catastrophic risks, animal welfare attitudes/markets, innovation, political risks and misinformation, and the social impact of technology. See a [pie chart](https://coda.io/d/Public-Unjournal-Coda-Pages_ddIEzDONWdb/Evals-Ratings_surD_NtO#_lu-wkLF2) of the cause-coverage of our evaluations so far.

### Also see our

- Evaluations and ratings output at [unjournal.pubpub.org](unjournal.pubpub.org)

- [Queryable knowledge base](https://globalimpact.gitbook.io/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space) for further details

- Nascent [Pivotal Questions](https://globalimpact.gitbook.io/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/pivotal-questions-initiative#the-pivotal-questions-project-in-brief) project (we are prioritizing this for more funding)

- [Public database or potentially impactful research](https://coda.io/d/Public-Database-of-Research_d7VdSLeCrpi/Unjournal-Research-with-potential-for-impact-database_suCwXMPL#_luqRnzt6)

- Coverage and ratings data [here](https://coda.io/d/Public-Unjournal-Coda-Pages_ddIEzDONWdb/Evals-Ratings_surD_NtO#_lu-wkLF2), and in further linked dashboards

## Participation, donations, communications

We're looking for engagement: expert evaluators, members of our field specialist team, and researchers/research users. Find out how you can get involved [here](https://globalimpact.gitbook.io/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/readme-1/call-for-participants-research).

As of Oct 2024, we have about a one year runway for our current activities. We're looking for more funding to make us more sustainable, enable us to expand our coverage, improve our public communications and research dissemination, and enable initiatives such as ['Pivotal questions'](https://globalimpact.gitbook.io/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/pivotal-questions-initiative#the-pivotal-questions-project-in-brief). 

Naturally, we will vet any COI issues involving donations carefully. (E.g., if you are a researcher or research org, we would need to flag any support you provided if we post evaluations of your work.)

If you have questions (whether or not you are considering making a donation) you can contact us at contact@unjournal.org and book a chat. 

