# Multiple dimensions of feedback

**Journal-independent review allows work to be rated separately in different areas**: theoretical rigor and innovation, empirical methods, policy relevance, and so on, with separate ratings in each category by experts in that area.\
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As a researcher in the current system, I cannot both submit my paper and get public evaluation from (for example) JET and the Journal of Development Economics for a paper engaging both areas.

**The Unjournal, *****and journal-independent evaluation, can enable this through***

* commissioning a range of evaluators with expertise in distinct areas, and making this expertise known in the public evaluations;
* asking specifically for multiple dimensions of quantitative (and descriptive) feedback and ratings (see especially [#metrics-overall-assessment-categories](https://open-2c.gitbook.com/url/globalimpact.gitbook.io/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/policies-projects-evaluation-workflow/evaluation/guidelines-for-evaluators#metrics-overall-assessment-categories "mention") under our [guidelines-for-evaluators](https://open-2c.gitbook.com/url/globalimpact.gitbook.io/the-unjournal-project-and-communication-space/policies-projects-evaluation-workflow/evaluation/guidelines-for-evaluators "mention")); and
* allowing authors to gain evaluation in particular areas *in addition* to the implicit value of publication in specific traditional field journals.