Peer review for independent researchers

Reviewers found from the work, not from contacts

Without a department, there is no colleague down the corridor to read a draft and no editor who knows your name. Unjournal searches the global publication record for the researchers whose own papers sit closest to the questions your paper raises. You see an anonymized shortlist and approve it; nothing reaches a reviewer without your approval.

An affiliation does not weigh on the review

Reviewers never see who wrote the paper or where they work. That matters: in a controlled experiment at a computer science conference, reviewers who could see author names were more likely to recommend papers from famous authors and top institutions than reviewers who could not. Double-blind review removes that signal, for everyone.

How double-blind review works.

No publishing fee to fund yourself

Independent researchers usually pay their own costs. Publishing on Unjournal is free: no article processing charge, no subscription. The review is paid once, on delivery, with a money-back guarantee, and revision rounds are included.

A reviewed record of your work

Once at least two reviewers endorse your revision and none says “not yet”, you can publish it as a peer-reviewed preprint on the Unjournal preprint journal, with the reviews alongside. Readers see what experts checked, whoever you work for.

How it works

1. Upload the paper (PDF or Word). It is read for the questions that need an expert, and nothing is sent to anyone yet.
2. Approve an anonymized shortlist of researchers whose own work is closest to those questions.
3. They review it double-blind, commenting on the passages that matter.
4. Revise; the same reviewers check the revision against their own comments.
5. Once at least two endorse it and none says “not yet”, you may publish it on the Unjournal preprint journal, with its reviews.