The Unjournal commissions expert public evaluation of research with potential for global impact. We recognize and reward the most useful, insightful, and credible evaluation work, including through our “Evaluator Prize”. Our 2024-25 winners (chosen from 88 evaluations since January 2024)  will share $6600 in prizes. Where evaluators are not anonymous, they will be invited to present and discuss their evaluation work and their own research and practice.

Our management team and advisory board will vote and make the final decisions on the winners soon, taking into account feedback from researchers, stakeholders, and other readers and research users.

We are looking for your feedback, suggestions, or impressions, either in comments below, by dm or email  (contact@unjournal.org), in the poll below, or via the anonymous form here*. *

Top contenders

Links below – nominated evaluation content: evaluation package summaries

1. Hugh Waddington and Edoardo Masset: evaluation of Water Treatment and Child Mortality (Kremer et al, 2023)
2. David Reiley: evaluation of Online Fundraising and Charitable Giving (Adena and Hager, 2024)
3. Cannon Cloud: evaluation of Natural Regeneration in Deforested Tropical Regions (Williams et al, 2024)
4. Evaluator 2 (anonymous): evaluation of The wellbeing cost effectiveness of StrongMinds and Friendship Bench: review and meta-analysis with charity-related data" (McGuire et al, 2024)
5. Matthew B Jané: evaluation of Meaningfully Reducing Meat Consumption (Green et al., 2025)
6. Eduardo Masset: evaluation of Social Safety Nets and Women’s Economic Achievements (Peterman et al, 2024)

See our collection of these and other commended evaluations here. You are welcome to nominate or provide feedback on these or any of our evaluations, which we will take into account — again, please write to contact@unjournal.org, or via the anonymous form here. And please consider voting in the poll below.

Disagree/agree: Does this evaluation merit the top evaluation prize?