• Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Credit: Liudmila Chernetska/iStock via Getty Policy-relevant research is drowning in thefloodof scientific papers that are published every day. • But what if temporary ‘pop up’ journals that were devoted to a single, urgent question could deliver clear, actionable information straight to the policymakers who need it? • That’s the thinking behind thePop-Up Journal Initiative, which aims toconnect policymakerslooking for solid evidence to back fresh policies, with researchers who are collecting the relevant evidence. • With funding of some US$1 million from two non-profit organizations - the Alfred P. • Sloan Foundation in New York City and Coefficient Giving in San Francisco, California - the initiative will set up journals that will publish articles focused on a single question for a period of time, roughly a few years, before closing the pop-up journal to submissions. • “I’m less interested in topics than in questions, and I’m less interested in publishing than I am in curation,” says one of the project leaders, Daniel Goroff, who is the vice-president and programme director at the Alfred P.

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