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# Related Initiatives Comparison

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## Highly Related Initiatives
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| Initiative | Type | Notes |
|------------|------|-------|
| [COS LifeCycle Journal](https://lifecyclejournal.org/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiat | Open review/evaluation. Unjournal is an evaluation provider. Emphasis on multiple points of evaluation throughout the research life cycle |
| [Institute for Replication](https://i4replication.org/) | 🔄 replication/reproducibility/ro | Goal: Robustness 'replication' of all top published papers in Econ, Poli Sci, etc. Strong template and lots of credible backers. A possible partner for unjournal. |
| [Peer Communities In (PCI)/ PCI Journal](https://peercommunityin.org/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin | PCI and the Peer Community Journal; See especially the PCI Psychology Community, and to a lesser extent the nascent Economics one |
| [Pre-print review initiative (PREreview)](https://prereview.org/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin | We provide ways for feedback to preprints to be done openly, rapidly, constructively, and by a global community of peers." Distinctions/limitations: More of a platform than an initiative. Mostly bot |
| [Sciety](https://sciety.org/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin | Sciety: 'curation' ... make it easier to access preprints and reviewers across platforms. We used their platform to some extent and may do so in the future. Some considerations, e.g., only able to in |
| [Arcadia](https://research.arcadiascience.com/pub/perspective-publishing-round-one/release/2) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiat | Crowdsourced evaluations? Suggested by Stuart Buck. I love how Arcadia Science envisions the research project not just the standalone paper.https://research.arcadiascience.com/ https://research.arcadi |
| [PCI Economics](https://econ.peercommunityin.org/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiat | We're in contact/collaboration |
| [PCI Psychology](https://psych.peercommunityin.org/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiat | We’re in contact/collaboration |
| [COS LifeCycle Journal](https://lifecyclejournal.org/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Open review/evaluation. Unjournal is an evaluation provider. Emphasis on multiple points of evaluation throughout the research life cycle |
| [Institute for Replication](https://i4replication.org/) | 🔄 replication/reproducibility/robustness | Goal: Robustness 'replication' of all top published papers in Econ, Poli Sci, etc. Strong template and lots of credible backers. A possible partner for unjournal. |
| [Peer Communities In (PCI)/ PCI Journal](https://peercommunityin.org/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | PCI and the Peer Community Journal; See especially the PCI Psychology Community, and to a lesser extent the nascent Economics one |
| [Pre-print review initiative (PREreview)](https://prereview.org/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | We provide ways for feedback to preprints to be done openly, rapidly, constructively, and by a global community of peers." |
| [Sciety](https://sciety.org/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | |
| [Arcadia](https://research.arcadiascience.com/pub/perspective-publishing-round-one/release/2) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Crowdsourced evaluations? Suggested by Stuart Buck.https://research.arcadiascience.com/ https://research.arcadiascience.com/reimagining-scientific-publishing |
| [PCI Economics (Coming soon?)](https://psych.peercommunityin.org/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Were in contact/collaboration |
| [PCI Psychology](https://psych.peercommunityin.org/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | We’re in contact/collaboration |
| [PRC Alliance (Publish, Review, Curate)](https://asapbio.org/reimagining-scholarly-publishing-outcomes-from-a-public-forum-to-discuss-the-publish-review-curate-prc-publishing-model/) | 🤝 Open science collaboration | |
| [PubPub](https://www.pubpub.org/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin | We use PubPub to host our evaluations at unjournal.pubpub.org. It has many strong features and we continue to collaborate with Knowledge Futures on development. |
| [eLife (hosted within Sciety)](https://elifesciences.org/about/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiat | "eLife's is/was a fairly well respected (?) journal in Life Sciences. Their New Model (originally called 'publish, review, curate') was big news. Their three month update seems fairly stable/successf |
| [PubPub](https://www.pubpub.org/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | We are using it to host our evaluations. It has many strong features and we plan to fund further features. Winding down? |
| [eLife (hosted within Sciety)](https://elifesciences.org/about/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | |

## Other Related Initiatives

| Initiative | Type | Notes |
|------------|------|-------|
| [Cascad](https://www.cascad.tech/) | 🔄 replication/reproducibility/ro | "the first certification agency for scientific code & data" -- a possible source of worthy 'open' work |
| [Economics e-journal](https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/econ/html) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiat | At least some detailed public evaluations, although they don’t make these as prominent as Unjournal. Founded 2007, owned by DeGruyter from 2020. Archi |
| [Kotahi](https://kotahi.community/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin | Connected to Sciety, Elife etc. They were once hosting our editorial management platform and linking the output with a Sciety group; something we tho |
| [OSF Preprints](https://osf.io/preprints/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin | Hosts (?) interfaces with multiple archives. "Pre or post-moderation". Facilitates and encourages (?) Plaudit and PREreview |
| [Openreview.net](https://Openreview.net) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiat | Mostly CS |
| [PLOS 'Published Peer Review"](https://theplosblog.plos.org/2022/06/observations-on-published-peer-review-history/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiat | "PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in resea |
| [Plaudit - endorse a preprint](https://plaudit.pub) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin | Plaudit is a third-party tool. OSF seems to encourage it (https://help.osf.io/hc/en-us/articles/360038856834-Endorse-a-Preprint). You can endorse the |
| [ResearchHub](https://www.researchhub.com/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin | Hub to upload/link DOI'd research, by subject. Comments and 'costly' upvotes/downvotes (?), no explicit 'reviewing' process. For-profit? "... a modern |
| [Scipost](https://scipost.org/about) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiat | Making good inroads in physics+ Distinctions/considerations: physics+-focused, exclusive publishing, may not allow dynamic formats or continuous impro |
| [Alethia](https://aletheia-platform.netlify.app/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiat | Has most of Unjournal's features, but no quantitative measures, no external funding for evaluators, and seems very small. A platform for disseminatin |
| [In&vertebrates](https://inandsight.science/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiat | |
| [Nature Human Behavior](https://www.nature.com/nathumbehav/editorial-policies/peer-review) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiat | Optional transparent peer review (author opt-in, for accepted work) |
| [ReviewCommons](https://www.reviewcommons.org/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin | Review Commons is a platform for high-quality journal-independent peer-review in the life sciences." Pre-prints reviewed, streams into (regular and OA |
| Science Open | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/ratin | Working with traditional and open journals and trying to bring in stakeholders. Seems to foster academic editor-based curation. But tied to traditiona |
| [SqARE](https://sqare.org/faq/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiat | Nascent? Econometrics focused, not sure if it will get off the ground |
| ASAPBio | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | |
| [Cascad](https://www.cascad.tech/) | 🔄 replication/reproducibility/robustness | "the first certification agency for scientific code & data" -- a possible source of worthy 'open' work |
| [Economics e-journal](https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/econ/html) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | At least some detailed public evaluations, although they don’t make these as prominent as Unjournal. Founded 2007, owned by DeGruyter from 2020. |
| [Kotahi](https://kotahi.community/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | Connected to |
| [OSF Preprints](https://osf.io/preprints/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | Hosts (?) interfaces with multiple archives. "Pre or post-moderation". Facilitates and encourages (?) Plaudit and PREreview |
| [Openreview.net](https://Openreview.net) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Mostly CS |
| [PLOS 'Published Peer Review"](https://theplosblog.plos.org/2022/06/observations-on-published-peer-review-history/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | "PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in... |
| [Plaudit - endorse a preprint](https://plaudit.pub) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | Plaudit is a third-party tool. OSF seems to encourage it (https://help.osf.io/hc/en-us/articles/360038856834-Endorse-a-Preprint). |
| [ResearchHub](https://www.researchhub.com/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | Hub to upload/link DOI'd research, by subject. Comments and 'costly' upvotes/downvotes (?), no explicit 'reviewing' process. For-profit? "... |
| [Scipost](https://scipost.org/about) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Making good inroads in physics+ |
| [Alethia](https://aletheia-platform.netlify.app/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Has most of Unjournal's features, but no quantitative measures, no external funding for evaluators, and seems very small. |
| [In&vertebrates](https://inandsight.science/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | |
| [Nature Human Behavior](https://www.nature.com/nathumbehav/editorial-policies/peer-review) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Optional transparent peer review (author opt-in, for accepted work) |
| [ReviewCommons](https://www.reviewcommons.org/) | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | Review Commons is a platform for high-quality journal-independent peer-review in the life sciences." Pre-prints reviewed, |
| Science Open | 🔧 Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | Working with traditional and open journals and trying to bring in stakeholders. Seems to foster academic editor-based curation. |
| [SqARE](https://sqare.org/faq/) | 📄 Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Nascent? Econometrics focused |
| [Stanford Program on Research Rigor & Reproducibility (SPORR)](https://med.stanford.edu/sporr) | 🤝 Open science collaboration | Focus on medicine? |

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