The NJOAD

Welcome to NJOAD — The New Journal of Academical Diarrhea

We publish your rubbish!

At NJOAD, we proudly open our doors to a special kind of scientific contribution: the papers no other journal wants, needs or even tolerates. Whether your study compares apples to oranges, oranges to pineapples or pineapples to existential dread, we believe your academic efforts deserve a place to shine.

Did your randomized controlled trial accidentally randomize no one?
Did your meta-analysis consist of exactly one paper — yours?
Did your observational study observe absolutely nothing of relevance?

Perfect. You belong here.

NJOAD exists for all brave researchers who have poured their heart, soul and several sleepless nights into producing work that adds absolutely nothing to existing literature. Why should groundbreaking research get all the attention? We celebrate the forgotten heroes of academia: the unsupported hypothesis, the underpowered study, the graph with error bars larger than the bars themselves, and the conclusion that bravely states, “More research is needed.”

Our peer-review process is simple.
If you wrote it, we’ll publish it.
If you didn’t write it, we might publish it anyway.
If ChatGPT wrote it, let’s be honest — it’s probably better than half the submissions we get.

So welcome, dear scholar. This is your safe space, your intellectual dumping ground, your glittering beacon of non-impact. At NJOAD we don’t ask whether your science is good, meaningful or even coherent. We simply ask: Did you try?

Because here at the New Journal of Academical Diarrhea, we value effort.