Unjournal: Call for participants and research - "Unjournal"+ EA & global priority research groups

"I am David Reinstein (Senior Economist at Rethink Priorities, following 15 years in academia) and a supporter of open science (BITSS Catalyst). I am writing with an open call for committee members, board members, reviewers, and suggestions of relevant work for a new peer-review initiative (not a publication!) called The Unjournal.

The Unjournal team is building a system for credible, public, journal-independent feedback and evaluation of research. Peer review can be slow; our system will enable researchers to get more prompt, efficient, and substantive feedback and advice, with metrics and signals of quality. The Unjournal will also help researchers advance, promote, and improve their work, while still allowing them to submit it to traditional journals at any point in the process....

• Identify or invite contributions of relevant research that is publicly hosted on any open platform or archive in any format (we can help facilitate hosting and help you get a time-stamped DOI).
• Pay reviewers to evaluate and give careful feedback on this work. Elicit quantifiable and comparable metrics of research quality as credible measures of value.
• Publicly post and link all reviews of the work. Award financial prizes for work judged to be the strongest.
  • Note: We will make some clearly stated exceptions for ECRs, allowing them to hide negative reviews.
  • Note: We are likely to ask reviewers to remain anonymous (unsigned reviews), but this is under consideration
• Aim to be as transparent as possible in these processes. ..."