Unjournal tool hub (finding & assessing high-impact research questions, cruxes, papers, etc.)

The Unjournal launched a suite of tools and resources to help researchers prioritize high-impact research questions, including a Research Prioritization Dashboard, a Cruxes & Pivotal Questions Explorer, and evaluation guides. The tools aim to bridge the gap between vague importance and concrete judgments about evidence, uncertainty, and tractability.

Disclaimer: I used an LLM to help draft this post and it likely contains 10% AI-generated text, but I’ve edited/rewritten it extensively endorse it. The Unjournal has been building a set of tools and resources that may be useful for researchers trying to decide what to work on, how to prioritize, or how to have more impact. Also relevant for research users and research managers. In particular: Research Prioritization Dashboard https://uj-prioritization-prototype.netlify.app/ : a dashboard for finding and filtering social-science and policy research also legal scholarship https://uj-prioritization-prototype.netlify.app/legal/ with potential global-impact relevance. It's a mix of AI curated and Unjournal-team prioritized; working on improving and training, and we are eager for your input/labeling . Cruxes & Pivotal Questions Explorer https://uj-prioritization-prototype.netlify.app/cruxes/ : a searchable collection of explicit disagreements, uncertainties, and “what would change my mind” statements from EA Forum and LessWrong posts. Evaluation Tools Guide https://daaronr.github.io/unjournal tools interfaces/evaluation form/tools.html and LLM Guides https://daaronr.github.io/unjournal tools interfaces/llm guides/ : resources for using AI and analysis tools while evaluating research. The broader toolkit hub https://daaronr.github.io/unjournal tools interfaces/ includes a "claim highlighter" highlight key claims in a paper, and "issue annotation tool" compare human and LLM critiques , our evaluation template with calibration helpers, and other evaluation resources. The page also indexes tools that relate to our internal processes; other people and orgs may find these useful. Some of these are still half-baked. These are partly prototypes and partly active tools. A common theme is helping researchers move from “this topic seems important” to clearer judgments about evidence, uncertainty, tractability, decision-relevance, and neglected cruxes. We'll keep updating the tools on this space or redirect .