Janne Pölönen
Secretary General for Publication Forum (JUFO) at Federation of Finnish Learned Societies | Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication | CoARA Steering Board - WG on Multilingualism and Language Biases
- Reposted by Janne PölönenRaporttini akateemisen vapauden tilasta Suomessa julkaistiin tänään. Se pohjautuu tutkijoille ja opettajille tehtyyn kyselyyn. Raportin loppuun kehittelin oman tulkintani siitä, mitkä kaikki tekijät vapautta uhkaavat. Tein siitä tällaisen kuvan. edition.fi/tsv/catalog/...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenNew resources to advance #DiamondOA in Africa, Europe, and Latin America! ✅Scoping Report on Non-for-profit Publishing Ecosystems ✅Landscape Report on Diamond OA Publishing ✅Advocacy Materials: talking points, videoclips and organisation guide for online events. Find resources: u2l.fr/9qt8bo
- Reposted by Janne PölönenOpen Science NL is funding 27 replication studies with €5.2M. Projects will reanalyse data, repeat experiments, and explore variations across many fields. Read more 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/27-s...
- Reposted by Janne Pölönen🎉The inaugural webinar of the Discussion Series on Scholar-led Publishing was today and it was perfect! 🙏Thank you to the 3 speakers and participants. 👀To see an overview of the presentations, expand the thread.
- Reposted by Janne PölönenThank you @almasiproject.bsky.social for this webinar to connect with the ALMASI (Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit #OpenAccess Publishing Services Internationally) community and the discussion on why #DiamondOpenAccess matters for reclaiming knowledge! Learn more about ALMASI: almasiproject.org
- Join us for the inaugural webinar of the Discussion Series on Scholar-led Publishing, co-hosted with @globalyacademy.bsky.social 🕓It will take place on December 11, 2025 at 16:00 CET. It will focus on Reclaiming knowledge: why Diamond Open Access matters. 👉Register to attend: u2l.fr/vq6tzq
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Next on stage Milda Baltrimienė podering abt #multilingualism in research. #HelsinkiInitiative is one fine initiative, but it has some cons, too. Ahoy @jpolonen.bsky.social Milda's abstract: doi.org/10.7557/5.8164 - Reposted by Janne Pölönen[This post could not be retrieved]
- 📢 Register for the 5th Helsinki Initiative webinar (8 December) on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication with presentations by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social, @karenstroobants.bsky.social and Andre Brasil! More information and registration: www.helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/5t...
- Reposted by Janne Pölönen🌍 Have you experienced language barriers at academic conferences, or not at all? We want to hear from everyone to better understand how language shapes participation and accessibility. 📝 Take our short survey and help make conferences more inclusive and multilingual: forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6...
- Reposted by Janne Pölönen📣 Special seminar on 'Perspectives on the evaluation of science', with Emanuel Kulczycki, @alesiazuccala557.bsky.social, and Jochen Gläser. 🎧 Make sure to join! 📅 Friday, 31.10.2025 🕐 1:00-3:00 PM (CET) 📌 Online & at CWTS More information 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
- Reposted by Janne Pölönen🌍💎 Bringing together #OpenAccess policymakers & funders across Africa, Europe, and Latin America is key to supporting #DiamondOA @almasiproject.bsky.social launches The Diamond OA Policy Forum on 29 October 2025, 15:00-16:30 UTC Register here: almasiproject.org/the-diamond-...
- Reposted by Janne Pölönen"Across databases, delve (+1,500%), underscore (+1,000%), and intricate (+700%) had the largest increases between 2022 and 2024. Growth in LLM-term usage was much higher in STEM fields than in social sciences and arts and humanities" arxiv.org/abs/2509.09596
- Reposted by Janne PölönenResearch assessment reform is essential to break the cycle of dependence on high-impact commercial journals and related metrics. ➡️ Reclaiming academic ownership of the #ScholarlyCommunication system buff.ly/0C0Wqfn #OpenScience
- Reposted by Janne Pölönen→ Plaidoyer pour le multilinguisme en sciences 📚 Article à lire : @bowkerl.bsky.social, Mikael Laakso & @jpolonen.bsky.social explorent les risques liés au monolinguisme anglophone sur l’écosystème scientifique. 📌 L'article : id.erudit.org/iderudit/111... 📌 Résumé de l'article : shorturl.at/nKGgo
- Reposted by Janne PölönenThe July 2025 dump of OpenCitations Index is out! Now featuring 2.21 BILLION citations from 5 data sources. 👉 download.opencitations.net Ever wondered how these sources overlap? This chart shows where citations are shared and where they're unique:
- 74.4% of the 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve commercial professional publishers, 29% societies, and 27.8% research organisations as sole/co-publishers. Our paper co-authored with @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Emanuel Kulczycki & @mikaellaakso.bsky.social - now on QSS website: doi.org/10.1162/qss....
- Happy to announce the soft launch of DoLS - the Directory of Learned Societies, an open, growing database of learned societies and their journals worldwide, facilitating visibility, networking, and community-building! Explore #DoLS website: www.tsv.fi/en/services/...
- Significant differences between European countries in the higher education institution's engagement with #CoARA, #HRS4R @dorassessment.bsky.social. This and other findings in my presentation at the CoARA General Assembly 23 June on CoARA Uptake across European HEIs: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenThis interesting new preprint on SocArXiv shows that "The landscape of academic journals is beyond the oligopoly: it is diverse and often grounded in public, academic-driven initiatives rather than market imperatives." osf.io/preprints/so...
- 📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- 📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenGlad to see this report about 'reclaiming academic ownership of scholarly communication system'. I like presentation of diamond OA and publish-review-curate (PRC) as complementary approaches. Important to note that PRC is not only about reclaiming ownership but also about various other issues.
- 📖 What are the main factors shaping the current academic publishing system? 🚧 What key challenges does the academic community face? 🔍 Are there opportunities for universities to reshape the future of #ScholarlyCommunication? 🔗 New EUA briefing buff.ly/0C0Wqfn #AcademicSky #EduSky
- Reposted by Janne Pölönen📖 What are the main factors shaping the current academic publishing system? 🚧 What key challenges does the academic community face? 🔍 Are there opportunities for universities to reshape the future of #ScholarlyCommunication? 🔗 New EUA briefing buff.ly/0C0Wqfn #AcademicSky #EduSky
- Reposted by Janne Pölönen💎 📖 #Diamas project releases #DiamondOA Recommendations and Guidelines for Institutions, Funders, Sponsors, Donors, and Policymakers. ℹ️ buff.ly/bwSeFJL #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenScience #SciencePolicy @eudch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Janne PölönenUniversities and their communities play an essential role in protecting and promoting academic freedom. 🛡️ 🤲 They must commit to making academic freedom a lived and daily reality. Read EUA's position paper buff.ly/35qwaif #AcademicFreedom
- Reposted by Janne PölönenIt's great to see that a national research evaluation organization, the Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO), has rated @joss-openjournals.bsky.social as level 1, recognizing its scholarly value Frankie Robertson helped make this happen, with Nordic-RSE, & wrote about it: nordic-rse.org/blog/joss-ju...
- @polecopub.bsky.social presenting #Matilda as a new source for Open Citations at #WOOC2025 in Bologna
- 📢 Webinaari 11.6. klo 10:00-11:30: Yliopistojen, AMKien ja tutkimuslaitosten näkemyksiä tutkimuksen yhteiskunnallisen vaikuttavuuden arvioinnista sekä Alankomaiden, Norjan, Puolan ja UK:n arviointijärjestelmien vertailu. Ilmoittautuminen ja lisätietoa: www.julkaisufoorumi.fi/fi/tapahtuma...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenPapers mills and other manipulative practices are major problem in scientific publishing system. Addressing this problem requires in-depth system-level understanding of dynamics leading to these practices. At @cwts.nl we have PhD position to work on this! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
- Our paper "Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations" was published today in Scientometrics: doi.org/10.1007/s111... Thank you Emanuel Kulczycki, @mikaellaakso.bsky.social and @zehrataskin.bsky.social for the great collaboration!
- Reposted by Janne PölönenMath journal editors resign to launch open-access title ‘free from pressure or influence’ retractionwatch.com/2025/04/07/m...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenPeerJ is now part of a large for-profit commercial publisher. Sad 😶. peerj.com/blog/post/11...
- 📢 The Draft Programme of the #RESSH2025 conference is published! 46 presentations, 5 posters, and a keynote by Toma Tasovac: "Reshaping Research Assessment: What Research Infrastructures Have Got to Do With It?" Info and registration: vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...
- 📢Deadline for submissions to #STI2025 has been extended to 14 April 2025. The 29th Annual STI-ENID Conference will take place in Bristol from 3–5 September 2025. Submissions can be made via Oxford Abstracts, accessible through the conference website: www.stienid2025.org
- Reposted by Janne PölönenThe European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) is now on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/eudc...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenI just published a blog post arguing that the reform movements for research assessment and scientific publishing need to better align their agendas. This is crucial for the success of both movements. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/ass... @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social
- 📢Registration is now open for the RESSH2025 conference 19-21 May 2025 in Helsinki, Finland! We look forward to 46 presentations, 5 posters, and a keynote by Toma Tasovac: "Reshaping Research Assessment: What Research Infrastructures Have Got to Do With It?": vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenYay! You can now follow @coarassessment.bsky.social on Bluesky! 👇🏻
- Tutkimuksen yhteiskunnallinen vaikuttavuus ja sen arviointi -raportin julkistamiswebinaari järjestetään tiistaina 8.4. klo 10—11.15. Tapahtuma on maksuton ja se järjestetään etänä (Zoom). Ilmoittautuneet saavat osallistumislinkin sähköpostiin: julkaisufoorumi.fi/fi/tapahtuma...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenLinkkarissa minun ja @jpolonen.bsky.social kirjoitus kotimaisten tiedelehtien (ja kirjojen) merkityksestä: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenGlad to see increasing interest in advancing objectives of Barcelona Declaration in discussions with publishers! Don't hesitate to reach out if you'd like to contribute to this. Several Barcelona Declaration working groups, one of which co-coordinated by me, are developing initiatives in this area.
- Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunta (TSV) hakee toistaiseksi voimassa olevaan työsuhteeseen arvioinnin asiantuntijaa, jonka vastuulla on tieteellisten julkaisukanavien arvioinnin koordinointi ja kehittäminen. Hakuaika päättyy 7.4.2025. Lisätietoja hakuilmoituksessa: www.tsv.fi/fi/uutiset/t...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenImpressive to see the progress eLife is making in advancing the publish-review-curate #PRC model!
- In celebration of Seachtain na Gaeilge, the National Forum of Ireland (NORF) has translated the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication into Irish: www.helsinki-initiative.org/ga
- Reposted by Janne PölönenSince the 1980s, #journals have increasingly denationalized & anglicized their titles to boost international visibility. This trend aligns with indexing policies of #WoS & #Scopus, favouring English-language journals. Is global reach worth the loss of local identity? doi.org/10.1002/asi.... #JASIST
- Reposted by Janne PölönenToday, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
- Reposted by Janne PölönenAre you interested in supporting the transition to open research information and in contributing to a highly exciting open science initiative? Consider applying for the role of community manager for the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information! @cwts.nl
- Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) has taken first steps toward implementing its CoARA Action Plan, including public consultation of the Finnish Career Assessment Matrix (FIN-CAM), and updated User Guide for Publication Forum (JUFO) classification: www.tsv.fi/en/news/tsv-...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenAntiikki ja me -kirjan arvosteluni Ennen ja nyt -lehdessä 👇 journal.fi/ennenjanyt/a...
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- “Not being fluent in English is commonly viewed as the same as being inferior as a scientist,” says Tatsuya Amano in a great Nature interview: www.nature.com/articles/d41... This is why CoARA has a WG on Multilingualism and Language Biases in Research Assessment: coara.eu/working-grou...
- I decided long ago that I do not share "surprising" invitations to publish in journals but I could no longer resist the temptation because this one is simply ingenious :)
- Reposted by Janne PölönenI just signed this statement from Invest in Open Infrastructure (#IOI), and I hope you will too. investinopen.org/blog/statement-of-s… #Academia #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OpenScience @academicchatter @openscience
- Reposted by Janne PölönenTiesitkö, että Jufo-portaalin haussa voi nykyään tehdä valinnan "Vain maksuton OA (diamond OA)"? Eli voit hakea Jufossa rekisteröityjä lehtiä lisäämällä hakuehtoihin kriteerin timanttimallista. jfp.csc.fi/jufoportaali
- Reposted by Janne PölönenConnecting the Dots: The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information – Openness of research information as a prerequisite for research assessment reform graspos.eu/connecting-t... with contributions from @msphelps.bsky.social @vergoulis.bsky.social @jpolonen.bsky.social #GraspOS #CoARA
- Reposted by Janne PölönenConnecting the Dots: The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information – Openness of research information as a prerequisite for research assessment reform graspos.eu/connecting-t... @barcelonadori.bsky.social @vergoulis.bsky.social @jpolonen.bsky.social
- 📢 Deadline extended to 7 February 2025 for paper and poster submissions to RESSH2025 conference! The Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities conference is organized 19-21 May, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland. Further information: vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...
- 📢 Reminder: the deadline for paper and poster submissions to RESSH2025 conference is 31st of January, 2025! The Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities conference is organized 19-21 May, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland. For more information: vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenSearching for tools and resources to make #DiamondOA publishing more financially sustainable? Browse the Sustainability Toolsuite in the new European Diamond Capacity Hub 👀 🔗 toolsuite.diamas.org/toolsuite-su...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenSee this work led by Violeta Berdejo-Espinola out in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social! We reiterate the need for globally-influencial assessments (eg those by @ipbes.bsky.social) to be based on multilingual evidence and provide guidance on how to achieve this. doi.org/10.1038/s443... #languagebarriers
- Reposted by Janne Pölönen💡 To function well, scholarly communication and research assessment need innovation-friendly bibliographic databases. This is what @ludowaltman.bsky.social from CWTS and the co-authors of a thought piece recently published in the Upstream blog argue for 👉 upstream.force11.org/criteria-for...
- Lidia Borrell-Damian, @johanrooryck.bsky.social and Pierre Mounier on stage to launch the European Diamond Capacity Hub
- Reposted by Janne PölönenWriting group: @ginnybarbour.bsky.social, Caitlin Carter, @jacoates.bsky.social, Kelly Cobey, @katiecorker.bsky.social, @lizziegadd.bsky.social, @msphelps.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, @evamen.bsky.social, Cameron Neylon, @jpolonen.bsky.social, Bodo Stern, and @ludowaltman.bsky.social
- Reposted by Janne Pölönen✒️ A shout-out to the contributors: @ginnybarbour.bsky.social, Caitlin Carter, @jacoates.bsky.social, Kelly Cobey, @katiecorker.bsky.social, @lizziegadd.bsky.social, @msphelps.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, Eva Méndez, Cameron Neylon, @jpolonen.bsky.social, Bodo Stern, & @ludowaltman.bsky.social
- Reposted by Janne PölönenThanks to the contributors: @ginnybarbour.bsky.social, Caitlin Carter, @jacoates.bsky.social, Kelly Cobey, @katiecorker.bsky.social, @lizziegadd.bsky.social, @msphelps.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, Eva Méndez, Cameron Neylon, @jpolonen.bsky.social, Bodo Stern, and @ludowaltman.bsky.social
- @johanrooryck.bsky.social Rooryck presents the EU funded ALMASI project in the public launch at Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, FECYT, Madrid
- A draft version of the FIN-CAM (Finnish Career Assessment Matrix) assessment tool, designed for the diverse assessment of individual researchers, is open for comments until 7 February 2025. The draft is available in Finnish, Swedish and English More information: vastuullinentiede.fi/en/news/comm...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenHere is our OA review of the overlooked yet significant consequences of #languagebarriers in #conservation. An outcome based on 5 years of work at our translatE project, supported by over 130 collaborators around the world. @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4
- Reposted by Janne PölönenA preprint by @rupertgatti.bsky.social, Pierre Mounier, and myself on the meaning of #DiamondOpenAccess beyond 'no fee'. zenodo.org/records/1444...
- Welcome to RESSH2025 conference 19-21 May, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland! Deadline for paper and poster submissions is 31st of January, 2025. RESSH2025 of the international association ENRESSH has a special focus on the social sciences and humanities (SSH): vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...
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- Starting in 10 minutes, register here for the Zoom link: tsv-fi.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- 📢 Join Helsinki Initiative Webinar 2 December 2024 15:00-16:30 CET with Ginevra Peruginelli, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia & Lucía Céspedes presenting on #multilingualism across STEM and SSH fields and the coverage of languages in #OpenAlex. 👉Registration: www.helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/4t...
- 📢 Join Helsinki Initiative Webinar 2 December 2024 15:00-16:30 CET with Ginevra Peruginelli, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia & Lucía Céspedes presenting on #multilingualism across STEM and SSH fields and the coverage of languages in #OpenAlex. 👉Registration: www.helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/4t...
- 74% of 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve professional publishers, 29% learned societies, and 28% research organisations as publishers or collaborators. Check out our new preprint co-authored with @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Emanuel Kulczycki and @mikaellaakso.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- Reposted by Janne PölönenNew preprint out today with @ekulczycki.bsky.social @jpolonen.bsky.social, @zehrataskin.bsky.social. If you are interested in better data on publishing learned societies ▶️ "Learned societies in the academic landscape: Challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations." doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- Reposted by Janne Pölönen💥New: The role of scientometrics in the pursuit of responsible research assessment ✍️ Luciana balboa, @lizziegadd.bsky.social, Eva Méndez, @jpolonen.bsky.social, Karen Stroobants & Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra #AcademicSky #ResearchAssessment #PeerReview #Scientometrics wp.me/p4m9em-dbT
