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Peer-reviewed · Published in days, not months

Rigorous Inquiry.
Independent Voice.

The prose-production bottleneck excluded practitioners, non-native English speakers, independent scholars, and thinkers whose ideas outran their writing — not for lack of original thought, but for lack of infrastructure. Undeterred Press exists because that infrastructure is no longer scarce. Every article is peer-reviewed on the strength of its thinking, and every article discloses exactly how it was made.

Where the idea is the credential.

Same rigor. A fraction of the wait.

Traditional peer review is slow because of queueing and editorial cycles — not because ideas take that long to check.

TRADITIONAL JOURNAL
18
months, on average
Submission queue → sequential review rounds → revise-and-resubmit → editorial decision
VS
UNDETERRED PRESS
18
days, on average
On-call reviewer pool → single rigorous round → published with full disclosure. Actual time depends on revision needs and researcher response time.
Issue 1 · Founding Article
ECONOMICS & PUBLIC POLICY

Ten Years Hence

Business Angel Tax Credits, the Absent Employment Lift, and a Decade of Convergent Evidence

A null finding on angel investor tax credits and employment, produced in a 2016 doctoral dissertation and never placed in a form the literature could cite. In 2022, the Journal of Finance reached the same conclusion through an independent methodology and a different dataset. The idea was a decade ahead of its production infrastructure. This is the article that infrastructure was missing.

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Standards

Every article discloses its AI involvement.

The intellectual contribution is the contribution — original, evidence-grounded, rigorously argued, regardless of production method. The production method is disclosed anyway, on every piece, because provenance is a standard, not a stigma.

LEVEL 1

No AI involvement

Argument, evidence, and prose are entirely human-generated, start to finish.

LEVEL 2

AI-assisted

AI assisted research, organization, or drafting, with substantial human authorship. Findings and core analysis remain human-originated and independently verified.

LEVEL 3

AI-primary drafting

AI-primary drafting, with human direction throughout. The author verifies every claim and holds full intellectual responsibility for the result.

How it works

Submission to publication

01

Submit

Your idea, your argument — with an AI-disclosure statement attached.

02

Triage

An initial pass checks completeness and fit before a reviewer's time is spent.

03

Review

One rigorous round. A committed reviewer pool, not an open-ended queue.

04

Publish

Live within days, disclosure and review notes attached for full transparency.

"The gate that remains — the only gate that should have existed all along — is the quality of the thinking."

— Kevin A. Schulte, Ph.D., Founding Editorial

About

Independent by design.

Undeterred Press is an independent, peer-reviewed journal. No institutional affiliation, no publisher subsidy, no gatekeeping by pedigree — editorial judgment answers to the evidence and the argument, not to any parent institution.

Current Call for Papers

Issue 2: Open Call

Submissions welcome across disciplines. Submission window and themed focus to be announced.

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