unjournaldata

This is the repository for Unjournal evaluations, meta-analysis, and meta-science.

Outputs and reports from here are published at https://unjournal.github.io/unjournaldata.

How it works: data and dashboards

A single GitHub Action:

• Exports data from Coda to csv files in the /data folder, via code/import-unjournal-data.py.
• Creates the Shiny dashboard at https://unjournal.shinyapps.io/uj-dashboard.

This action is automatically run

• when the "main" branch is pushed to;
• once daily in any case.

How it works: website and blog posts

The Unjournal data website is in the /website folder. It's not created on GitHub, but directly on developer machines.

• To add a blog post, create a new folder inside website/posts, and an index.qmd file inside the folder.
• Then navigate to the website folder and run quarto publish gh-pages from the command line. This will update the gh-pages branch on GitHub, which will then be reflected on the unjournal.github.io website.
• Individual blog posts are frozen, so they won't be updated once they have been created. See here.
• Also add and push your blog post, so your source code is visible on GitHub.
• See https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-blog.html and https://quarto.org/docs/publishing/github-pages.html for more details.

Data

The files in the /data folder are imported from Coda:

• paper_authors.csv: Lists of authors per paper.
• research.csv: evaluated papers.
• rsx_evalr_rating.csv: quantitative ratings given by each evaluator for each paper.

There's also some data from other sources:

• jql70a.csv: a list of journal quality rankings, maintained by Prof. Anne-Wil Harzing and converted to CSV format. We thank Prof. Harzing for creating this valuable resource.
• jql-enriched.csv: the same data, enriched with h-index and citedness information from Openalex, and our own meta-ranking of journals, via code/calibrate-journal-stats.R.