Journal-independent evaluation that prioritizes rigor, transparency, and real-world impact over prestige metrics.
Traditional academic publishing is slow, expensive, and misaligned with real-world impact. Researchers spend months reformatting papers. Peer review is unpaid, opaque, and produces binary accept/reject decisions. We built something better.
Submit your publicly hosted preprint, working paper, or any other research object, in whatever format you like. We evaluate the research, not the styling. What we look for.
All evaluations are public, creating valuable metrics for authors, researchers, and funders. No more black-box peer review. See our evaluator guidelines.
We prioritize research on global health, development, animal welfare, climate, and catastrophic risks. Evaluators assess reliability, robustness, and real-world usefulness.
Supporting replicability and methodological rigor. We encourage dynamic documents, code integration, and transparent methods. Part of the broader open evaluation movement.
Research evolves through feedback, new data, and refinements. We support living projects that aren't frozen in PDF form. Authors can respond publicly to evaluations.
Having your work evaluated by us doesn't limit your options. Submit to any traditional journal before, during, or after our process. We don't claim publishing rights.
From submission to public evaluation in weeks, not years. Our evaluation workflow is designed for efficiency and transparency.
Evaluators provide ratings with 90% confidence intervals, anchored to journal-tier benchmarks.
Preview draft interface
Current form: Coda evaluation form
Explore how papers score across 12 research areas, from global health to AI governance.
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See our full rating criteria for details on each dimension.
The Unjournal works alongside traditional publishing, not instead of it. Here's how our model differs:
All evaluations, ratings, and author responses are publicly available. See what journal-independent evaluation looks like in practice.
Full evaluation reports with expert feedback, quantitative ratings across multiple dimensions, and author responses. Everything receives a DOI and is indexed in scholarly databases.
Browse on PubPubExplore ratings data across all evaluations. Filter by topic, visualize rating distributions, and download the underlying data for your own analysis.
Open DashboardDive deeper into our documentation, policies, and community.
Whether you're a researcher seeking quality feedback, an evaluator who wants recognition for review work, or a funder looking for credibility signals.