The Unjournal coordinates the public evaluation of papers and research projects. We are working independently of traditional academic journals to build an open platform and a sustainable system for feedback, ratings, and assessment. Our initial focus is quantitative work that informs global priorities, especially in economics, policy, and other social sciences. We will encourage better research by making it easier for researchers to get feedback and credible ratings on their work. Our aim is to make rigorous research more impactful, and impactful research more rigorous.
This site hosts the Unjournal data blog. Our main web site, unjournal.org, and our knowledge base explain and present our vision, procedures and progress. The ‘output’ evaluations, including feedback and discussion, can be found on our PubPub page, and are indexed in scholarly archives.
We also have interactive dashboards:
This site and the accompanying dashboards present data and analysis on The Unjournal’s pipeline and evaluation output. We use them to:
Keep track of what we are covering, when and how.
Present the quantitative evaluations in useful ways.
Benchmark, check, and aggregate the expert judgment of our evaluators as reflected in their ratings and predictions.
We may expand this analysis further in the future, e.g., to include
Further analysis of the relevant research contexts (e.g., ‘how many papers are coming out by field’)
Connections to replications and prediction initiatives.
Comparing and benchmarking our evaluations against ‘traditional publication outcomes’ for the evaluated work, such as journal tiers and citations.
This resource aims to be:
Dynamic: Regularly updated to reflect our progress
Transparent and replicable: sharing data and code to permit checking and ‘forked’ analyses
Interactive: presenting a dashboard-style interface, allowing readers to choose their analyses of interest.
20 May 2024: David Reinstein, Julia Bottesini, and David Hugh-Jones have done most of the analysis here and in the accompanying dashboards.