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Journal of Open Assessment is a hypothetical, international, scientific journal. It is an open access journal that is published on the Opasnet website. It publishes articles on any field of science, if the article is written according to the open assessment method. Each article is an object in Opasnet (typically a nugget, variable, or assessment). Each article is given a URN (instead of a DOI) number. Articles are freely available in PDF format.
The writing and editorial processes differ significantly from traditional scientific journals. Actually, it is upside down. The publishing process starts by publishing a contribution about a description of the object. The description is improved by subsequent contributions by anyone (in the spirit of open participation), until the object is sound and good. This may contain original scientific research (usually in the form of a nugget, see e.g. KTL Sarcoma study), but it can also be a review of a topic (usually a variable or an assessment). All versions of the article are openly viewable by anyone. The first phase is by far the most resource-consuming part.
The second step in the publishing process is to write acknowledgements to the talk page. It basically describes who contributed to the writing of the object and in what way.
The third step is to make a peer review of the object by two to four independent peer reviewers. The authors may contact the Editorial Board of the Journal, and pay the review fee to get a peer review for their object. In addition, the Board may launch the peer review process, if it finds an object that warrants publishing in the Journal; in this case, the Board will pay the review fee. The peer review is performed on the object page, and the contributors improve the page based on reviewers' comments until it is acceptable. The reviewers disclose their conflicting interests, if any, on their own user page.
When the review has been successful, the object is given an URN and volume, issue, and article numbers. The object page and the talk page are printed into a PDF file and stored onto the website of the Journal, from where it can be downloaded. It is important to notice that the object itself is NOT locked but it may change in time as more information shows up. An article is just a particular version of the object at some point in time, but permanently available as a peer-reviewed article.
