What is
Undeterred Press?
The publisher of Undeterred Journal, an independent, open-access journal where the strength of an idea matters more than the institution behind it.
Free to submit, free to publish and free to read. We charge authors no fees of any kind.
Read the published articles
- Founded
- 2026
- Editor
- Kevin A. Schulte, Ph.D.
- Review
- Editor and domain expert
- Affiliation
- Not required
- Access
- Open, CC BY 4.0
- Fees
- None
- ISSN
- 3144-2218
Some of the world's best insights never reach the page.
The practitioner
Twenty years in the field. The results stay in internal reports.
The researcher
A doctorate earned while working. The dissertation sits unread in a database.
The independent author
Solid evidence. None of a university’s support.
The graduate
A thesis with real findings. A career outside academia.
Unpublished work meets one of two fates.
Lost.
It never reaches the people who could use it.
Rediscovered, years later.
Someone else pays to find it again. The first author gets no credit.
So we built
another way.
“The gate that remains, the only gate that should have existed all along, is the quality of the thinking.”
Merit over pedigree.
Affiliation and title are not prerequisites.
Rigorous, focused review.
The editor and a field expert test originality, evidence and reasoning.
Accessible to the reader.
Open access, clearly attributed, permanently citable.
Careful review.
Without the maze.
Target from submission to a first decision. Most accepted articles are published within 8 weeks, depending on how quickly revisions are completed. Review workflow ↗
- 01
Submit
Manuscript, evidence and an AI-disclosure statement.
- 02
Assess
The editor checks scope, completeness and originality.
- 03
Review
A reviewer in your field tests the argument and evidence.
- 04
Publish
Open access, with a DOI and an explicit AI disclosure.
Judge the ideas. Disclose the tools.
Every article states how it was made.
Human-authored
No AI involvement.
AI-assisted
Author-led; AI use disclosed and checked.
AI-primary drafting
AI drafts under direction; the author verifies every claim.
the Absent Employment Lift,
and a Decade of Convergent Evidence
One idea.
Ten years.
The founding article is the reason this journal exists.
- 2016
Kevin A. Schulte’s Saint Louis University dissertation finds no detectable employment gain from state angel investor tax credits.
- 2022
Virginia’s Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission cites the dissertation in its review of state science and technology incentives.
- 2023
A study in the Journal of Finance reaches the same conclusion with different data and methods.
- 2026
Ten Years Hence revisits the finding against a decade of evidence, in citable form.
What have you
discovered?
Submit your work Or explore our published workEvidence & editorial sourcing
- Springer Nature, Perceptions of Fairness and Bias in the Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem (global survey run in 2024; n = 8,445 for the bias question).
- Hurdles to open access publishing faced by authors: a scoping literature review, 2025 (88 papers reporting high article-processing charges as a barrier).
- Björk, B.-C., & Solomon, D. (2013). The publishing delay in scholarly peer-reviewed journals. Journal of Informetrics, 7(4), 914–923.
- Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (2022), review of state science and technology incentives, citing Schulte (2016).
- Denes, Howell, Mezzanotti, Wang & Xu (2023), “Investor Tax Credits and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. States,” Journal of Finance.
- Undeterred Press Founding Editorial, 2026 (mission, founding quotation, AI categories).
- Why Publish Here (editor review, intended audience, preservation).
- Ten Years Hence, founding article.