Level 1 is the basic category of the Publication Forum classification that contains the vast majority of foreign and domestic peer-reviewed publication channels. Open access journals are accepted to in the classification and evaluated using the same criteria applicable to conventional publication series. The Level 1 designation can be awarded to domestic and foreign journals/series, conferences and book publishers meeting the criteria of a scientific publication channel:
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• There is an editorial board constituted by consisting of experts;
• The scientific publications are subject to a peer evaluation focusing on the entire manuscript.
In principle, a publication channel meeting the criteria of a scientific publication channel must not be included in level Level 1 if:
• over half (1/2) of the reviewers or authors come from the same research organisation that is also the publisher;
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