The Unjournal (Unjournal.org): Public evaluation of impact-driven research and pivotal questions
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
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 The academic journal system is out-of-date, discourages innovation, and encourages rent-seeking.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 of the cause-coverage of our evaluations so far.
Also see our
Evaluations and ratings output at unjournal.pubpub.org
Queryable knowledge base for further details
Nascent Pivotal Questions project (we are prioritizing this for more funding)
Coverage and ratings data here, 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.
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'.
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 [email protected] and book a chat.
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