@unjournal.bsky.social
Researchers, practitioners, & open science advocates building a better system for research evaluation. Nonprofit. We commission public evaluation & rating of hosted work. To make rigorous research more impactful, & impactful research more rigorous.
Full hosting analysis: https://unjournal.github.io/unjournaldata/posts/paper-hosting-analysis-2026/
25.02.2026 21:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0More context on why visibility matters for research evaluation: https://youtu.be/bJIGHyPVTE4?t=249
25.02.2026 21:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Of 57 evaluated papers: 39% on SSRN, 30% on NBER, half appear on 2+ platforms, 47 institutional repositories represented. Understanding this landscape is essential for integrating public evaluations into discovery and bibliometric systems.
25.02.2026 21:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0For journal-independent evaluation to matter for careers and trust, ratings and reviews need to be visible where researchers and institutions actually look—Google Scholar, repositories, indexing services. That's why we analyzed where Unjournal-evaluated research is hosted. 🧵
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This is my pre-conference 'practice talk'; sharing it for people in parallel sessions, and who couldn't make the Baltimore conference
24.02.2026 23:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Sorry, more like a discussion at @nisoinfo.bsky.social considering how bibliometric standards can make journal-independent evaluations count for academic careers & trust markers.
24.02.2026 23:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Research evaluation doesn't need journals.
New talk: How bibliometric standards can make journal-independent evaluations count for academic careers.
🎥 http://dlvr.it/TR88Bh http://dlvr.it/TR88Bj
You are now legally obligated to become an economics journal.
18.02.2026 02:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We focus on research in economics, policy, and other quantitative social science with potential for global impact.
(About 80% is economics or adjacent).
We commission experts to publicly evaluate & rate research. To make impactful research more rigorous, make academic work more useful, support open science, open access, and transparency, and improve peer-review, helping align research incentives with truth-seeking and social value.
18.02.2026 02:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@unjournal.bsky.social would be happy to be included. See what we do at unjournal.org and unjournal.pubpub.org and decide if it makes sense.
18.02.2026 02:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
As specified and posted here: info.unjournal.org/evaluator-pr...
I am making the draw for these now using the closing value of S&P 500 today to 2 decimal places, 6,941.81.
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Winners: @matthewbjane.bsky.social and Anon evaluator (of Wellbeing paper).
Will make the payments soon.
Honorable Mention Lottery: Drawing Tuesday, February 10
Two of five honorable mention evaluators will win an extra $500 each. Why a lottery? Real incentives, not token recognition — larger payments to fewer people reduces transaction costs for everyone.
Results announced… http://dlvr.it/TQr5fQ
New video: The Unjournal Process — a 2-minute walkthrough of how we evaluate research. Produced by one of our field specialists. http://dlvr.it/TQr4cc http://dlvr.it/TQr4cg
08.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🎥 NEW VIDEO: The Unjournal Process — How We Evaluate Research
Watch our 6-step process for rigorous, transparent peer review:
• Expert evaluators compensated $350-450/review
• 3-5 week turnaround
• Public evaluations with DOIs
• Author response before publication… http://dlvr.it/TQqbpC
1. A base rate (adjusted in cases for scarcity/urgency)
2. A promptness bonus
3. Reward for tenure/previous public evaluation
4. Regular ~small incentive prizes
5. These larger prizes (annual/biennial)
Thanks. Tweaks and suggestions welcome. As outlined here: globalimpact.gitbook.io/the-unjourna... we have...
07.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks again for your hard work, expertise, and engagement with the authors and evaluation managers, and productive collaboration with the other evaluator.
07.02.2026 15:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@cannoncloud.bsky.social unjournal.pubpub.org/pub/e2natura... @nature.com
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@voxdev.bsky.social unjournal.pubpub.org/pub/evalsumm...
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@davidreiley.bsky.social unjournal.pubpub.org/pub/e2fundra...
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Correction: should be listed as "Hugh Sharma Waddington"
unjournal.pubpub.org/pub/e1watert...
Interested in evaluating? Learn more at unjournal.org
→ info.unjournal.org/evaluator-prizes-2024-25
The Unjournal pays evaluators ~$450/review. We believe rigorous peer review deserves real recognition and compensation.
07.02.2026 04:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Public expert review improves evidence quality and can inform major funders' decisions. Open dialogue between evaluators and authors exemplifies how scholarship should work.
07.02.2026 04:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Why reward peer review? Evaluation is essential infrastructure for good research — yet it's often invisible and unpaid. We want to change that.
07.02.2026 04:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🎖️ Three anonymous reviewers provided strong evaluations: one emphasized external validity concerns in Kenya's UBI experiment; another brought clinical expertise to mental health cost-effectiveness analysis.
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