# Related Initiatives Comparison
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## Highly Related Initiatives
These initiatives share significant overlap with The Unjournal's mission or are active partners.
| Initiative | Type | Notes |
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| [COS LifeCycle Journal](https://lifecyclejournal.org/) | π 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/) | π replication/reproducibility/robustness | Goal: Robustness 'replication' of all top published papers in Econ, Poli Sci, etc. Strong template and lots of credible backers. We have planned collaborations with I4Rep. |
| [Peer Communities In (PCI)/ PCI Journal](https://peercommunityin.org/) | π§ 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/) | π§ Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | PREreview provides ways for feedback to preprints to be done openly, rapidly, constructively, and by a global community of peers. |
| [Sciety](https://sciety.org/) | π§ Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | |
| [Arcadia](https://research.arcadiascience.com/pub/perspective-publishing-round-one/release/2) | π Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Crowdsourced evaluations. Arcadia Science envisions the research project, not just the standalone paper. See |
| [PCI Economics (Coming soon?)](https://psych.peercommunityin.org/) | π Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Weβre in contact/collaboration |
| [PCI Psychology](https://psych.peercommunityin.org/) | π Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Weβre 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/) | π€ Open science collaboration | |
| [PubPub](https://www.pubpub.org/) | π§ Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | 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/) | π Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | |
## Other Related Initiatives
| Initiative | Type | Notes |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| [Cascad](https://www.cascad.tech/) | π 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) | π Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | At least some detailed public evaluations, although they donβt make these as prominent as Unjournal. Founded 2007, owned by DeGruyter from 2020. |
| [Kotahi](https://kotahi.community/) | π§ Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | Connected to Sciety, eLife, etc. Workflow and editorial management platform for open access publishing. |
| [OSF Preprints](https://osf.io/preprints/) | π§ 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) | π 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/) | π Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | "PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine." |
| [Plaudit - endorse a preprint](https://plaudit.pub) | π§ Platform/tool: reviewing/rating/endorsing (and publishing) | Plaudit is a third-party tool. OSF seems to encourage it (). |
| [ResearchHub](https://www.researchhub.com/) | π§ 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) | π Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Making good inroads in physics+ |
| [Alethia](https://aletheia-platform.netlify.app/) | π 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/) | π Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | |
| [Nature Human Behavior](https://www.nature.com/nathumbehav/editorial-policies/peer-review) | π Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Optional transparent peer review (author opt-in, for accepted work) |
| [ReviewCommons](https://www.reviewcommons.org/) | π§ 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 | π§ 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/) | π Open public evaluation initiative or innovative journal | Nascent? Econometrics focused |
| [Stanford Program on Research Rigor & Reproducibility (SPORR)](https://med.stanford.edu/sporr) | | Focus on medicine? |
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