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Each year, the Ministry of Education and Culture collects publication data from all national higher education institutions, research institutes and university hospitals. The collected data is used to calculate basic funding for universities and universities of applied sciences as well as in other compiling of statistics, monitoring and steering of research, development, and innovation activities. The information collected essentially depends on the format of the publication. Below is a list of all the different publication formats. Click on the title to see what information is reported for publications in each publication format |
Purpose of these instructions
These publication data collection instructions for publication authors cover the sections of the Ministry of Education and Culture's publication data collection manual (Tiedonkeruun käsikirjat, in Finnish) that are particularly relevant to authors of publications. The manual's technical data collection instructions are primarily targeted at persons responsible for data collection.
These instructions also briefly describe publications that can be reported as publications outside the data collection performed by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
Organizations may also use their own more specific instructions.
What is publication data collection?
The purpose of publication metadata collected by the Ministry of Education and Culture from higher education institutions, research institutes and university hospitals is to produce a knowledge base on the research activities and societal impact of the Finnish research system. The Ministry uses the publication infromation collected from higher education institutions not only as a knowledge base for calculating the basic funding allocated to universities and universities of applied sciences, but also for otherwise monitoring and administering research, development, and innovation activities
Publication activities also include artistic activities, such as performances, as well as the development of various IT solutions and invention and patent notifications.
All national higher education institutions, research institutes and university hospitals organize the collection of publication information in their desired manner. However, this is done in a way that enables reporting on minimum information required by the Ministry.
An author, or, for example, a library acting on behalf of the author, reports their publications in their own organization's system, from which the publication metadata are transferred to the VIRTA publication information service maintained by CSC – IT Center after review and enrichment. After this, the statistical quantities of publications can be found in the Vipunen education administration reporting portal as well as in the Research.fi service with descriptive information.
The publication information collected can also be utilized, for example, in services provided by research funders so that publications stored in the home organization system can be transferred to application and project reports. For example, the Research Council of Finland uses publication metadata found in the VIRTA publication information service in its own services.
The collection of data describing the type of publication as attributes, according to the previous publication type classification (A-F), was adopted in 2023. However, previous publication types may still be visible in the organizations' own research information systems.
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Publication outside data collection
Ministry of Education and Culture publication data collection concerns publications that are important to the monitoring of research, development and innovation activities. In addition to these, when an organization decides to do so, it is also possible to submit some publications that are not taken into account in official publication statistics. Such exceptions include conference posts and abstracts, blog publications that do not meet the data collection requirements of the Ministry of Education and Culture and translation versions of publications that do not meet the criteria for producing new information. Publications outside data collection can be browsed in the Research.fi service.
However, even for publications outside data collection, the condition that an author must be connected to the reporting organization must be met. For example, publications produced while affiliated with a foreign organization may not be submitted to the VIRTA publication information service.
However, you can also use the Researcher’s Profile Tool to import publications that cannot be submitted through the VIRTA publication information service to your personal profile in Research.fi from your ORCID profile.
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On what types of publications is data collected?
Publications reported in the Ministry of Education and Culture's data collection must meet the following criteria:
- The publication must be publicly available to anyone
Public means that the publication is available to anyone free of charge or for a fee. For instance, a publication only distributed to conference participants or to those with limited online access is not publicly available, and therefore, it cannot be reported on in the data collection procedure. The existence of an ISSN or ISBN identifier is regarded as an indication of a publication which was originally intended to be publicly available.
- The publication channel must have an editorial board or a publisher independent of the author, who makes decisions on publications published on the channel.
For example, self-published documents or documents published on the author's website will not be reported on. Furthermore, publications published by the author through the publication archives of individual libraries or organizations will not be reported on, unless an external party independent of the author has decided to publish them.
- The publication has not previously been published in a format to be reported in the data collection.
- Publications must include new scientific, professional or artistic content that has been previously unpublished in a format reported on in the data collection procedure. So, a publication saved for instance in a publication archive (e.g. arXiv.org) may be reported on once it has been published in a journal or in another format, which can be reported on. Nor are translations of the authors' own texts, translations of texts by other authors or new editions of publications reported on, unless the publication has been modified to a significant degree as compared to the previous edition. Furthermore, updates to online publications will not be reported on new publications.
- The author of the publication is connected to the reporting organization.
The organization has enabled publication and research or expert work. In practice, this means that the author is in an employment or other contractual relationship with an organization (post-graduate students according to the criteria given below) or that the organization has otherwise enabled the publication.
In the case of postgraduate students at universities, publications are recorded from students who have been registered as present for postgraduate studies. In cases where the author of the publication is not affiliated with an organization based on a employment contract or the right to a post-graduate studies, the organization must still have provided the author with the resources and working environment (equipment, materials, research group) that enabled the active research. As a docentship is a title it is therefore an inadequate affiliation with a university on its own.
The contact with the organization is primarily determined on the basis of the affiliation mentioned in the author's publication. For this reason, researchers must be particularly careful to include the name of the organization in the publication and ensure that it is in the correct format. Publications are recorded for the organization in which the research and expert work associated with the publication was primarily conducted, even if the researcher moves to another organization before release of the publication.
A dissertation can be reported from both the university that granted the degree and the organization with which the author of the publication is in an employment or other contractual relationship, if the organization has materially enabled the dissertation by providing resources and a working environment or guidance.
Undergraduate students' publications are not taken into account in the Ministry of Education and Culture publication information collection.
- The publication is based on the author's research or expert work.
- For instance, publications dealing exclusively with extracurricular, third sector organization or business activities and not based on research or expert activities will not be reported on. Publications whose underlying research is not related to a person's work at a higher education institution are also not reported on. Additionally, publications exclusively intended for marketing communications are not reported on.
The aforementioned criteria apply to both printed documents as well as documents that are distributed only in electronic form (such as online newspapers and platforms).
Key concepts and definitions
Here are some of the key concepts and definitions used in the guidelines for publication data collection.
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Definition of scientific publication (scientific audience)
The common denominator of scientific publications is fulfilment of the following three conditions:
- The publication must produce new information in relation to previous research data on the same subject.
- The publication must be presented in a format that allows the verification of the research results and/or use of the research results in a new research, thus enabling other researchers to assess the research results and use them in their own work.
- The publication channel specializes in publishing scientific research results and has an editorial staff consisting of experts in the field of science as well as a peer review practice. (Note: non-refereed publications may also be published on scientific publication channels).
All criteria are applied according to the established practices for each field of science.
Definition of professional publication (professional audience)
Professional publications refer to publications that disseminate information based on research, development and innovation as well as professional expertise for use by the professional community. The readership of professional publications mainly includes persons trained in the field, applying the information to their practical work. The target audiences of scientific and professional publications may be partly the same, and individual articles published in both groups may be very similar.
Professional publication channels include e.g. the following professional journals:
Metsälehti, Käytännön maamies, Sosiaalitieto, Kehittyvä elintarvike, Acatiimi, Journalisti, Arkkitehti, Sairaanhoitaja, Puutarha & kauppa, Ulkopolitiikka and Opettaja.
Trade journals are an exception to this rule in that they also publish peer reviewed scientific articles. The target audience of refereed scientific articles published in trade journals classified on levels 1 to 3 by the Publication Forum (e.g. Duodecim, Suomen lääkärilehti, Liikunta ja tiede) is entered as “scientific” despite the fact that these journals are primarily aimed at the professional community. The target audience for non-refereed articles in these journals is entered as "professional".
Typically commissioned and published by a public party such as a ministry, agency or state research institution, various analyses and reports based on scientific research and development produced to support political or professional decision-making are also reported on as professional publications.
Definition of a popular publication (public audience)
Popular publications refer to publications that disseminate information based on research, development and innovation to the public. Understanding their content does not require particular familiarity with the field. Examples of popular publications include popular books, newspaper articles, popular periodical articles and network platform articles participating in public discussion.
Definition of an artistic publication
Artistic publications refer to the public outputs of artistic activities. They may be either independent artistic works or separate partial outputs valued in accordance with the practices of different art fields. Examples of the latter include scenography, a work in a joint exhibition or an actor performing a role. In addition, partial artistic outputs that are part of a publication whose context is not primarily artistic, but whose artistic component is valued in the art community in question, are considered an artistic publication. Examples of these include the designs of an architect or designer. Additionally, publications exclusively intended for marketing communications are not reported on.
An artistic publication must always exceed the threshold under copyright law.
With regard to artistic publications, a connection with a higher education institution means that the author is employed by the higher education institution in question during the preparation, placement and/or drafting of the publication as well as that the author’s artistic activities are related to their job description at the higher education institution. An author having artistic activities related to their job description means that the activities are part of the author's work plan or have been agreed upon with the supervisor, for example, in development discussions. Artistic activities which have not been agreed upon with the employer and which comprise the author’s primary job description outside the university are not to be reported in data collection. This may be the case, for example, with a part-time teacher. In the case of postgraduate students at universities, publications are recorded from students who have been registered as present for postgraduate studies.
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Definition of peer review
The peer review of scientific publications refers to a procedure, in which a journal, conference, publishing house or network platform requests that experts in the field of science carry out an evaluation of the scientific integrity of manuscripts intended for publication. Publication data collection requires that peer review meets the following criteria:
The publication evaluators have been independent, in terms of the manuscript to be evaluated. Independent evaluators refer here to accomplished researchers or other experts who are not editors of the publication series (journal or book series) or the publication (compilation, special issue of a journal, conference publication).
- At minimum, the reliability and accuracy of research, reporting and conclusions have been evaluated in a manner characteristic of the field of science in question.
The evaluation has covered the entire manuscript offered for publication rather than just an abstract or extract.
The author has received a written referee statement of the peer review (original statement or a summary by the editorial staff/editor in chief).
In unclear cases, it must be possible to verify the peer review based on a written statement. If a Finnish scientific publisher uses the label for peer-reviewed scholarly publications of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, only articles and separate works bearing the label may be reported as peer-reviewed.
Peer review carried out by independent experts should not be confused with editorial review, which assesses the suitability of a text, for example, for publication with other contents of a given compilation. An evaluation made by another author of the same book can only be regarded as an independent evaluation if both the author and reviewer identities are hidden from each other (double-blind). In other cases, an open peer review is also considered sufficient. A publication whose target group is the professional or public sector (decision-making) may also be peer-reviewed.
An external evaluator independent of the author (not the editor or editorial staff of the book) is also required for peer reviewed book section, chapters in research books (A3). Furthermore, peer review is required for scientific books (monographs) (C1) and edited books, conference proceedings or special issue of a journal (C2).
Conference publication
Scientific conference articles are typical mainly in computer science and engineering. In most other areas, a conference publication is an intermediate stage before publication in another publication channel. Articles in a compilation presented at a one-time event are marked as published in a parent publication, whose type is conference. Articles published in scientific journals, even if based on a presentation given at a conference, are marked as original or review articles. In the above cases, the level of the Publication Forum is also determined by the according to the type of parent publication.
The publicity of a conference publication is determined in the same way as other publications, i.e. the publication must be publicly available. A publication that is only public in the collection of a single library (e.g. the publication archive) or on the researcher's website is not considered publicly available. Also, publications distributed only to conference participants, publications that have limited online access or publications only available for a limited time (e.g. for the duration of a conference) as openly available publications are not considered publicly available.
Conference publications cover a wide range of publications. Ministry of Education and Culture data collection takes into account the full written versions of conference presentations (full paper) and the so-called short paper/work‐in‐progress types of papers. The types of articles are defined in accordance with the conference's own practices, and the number of pages is not the only decisive factor. Only the publication types used by the scientific community in the evaluation of publication activities according to established practices are taken into account in the statistics on publication activities. Abstracts, extended abstracts, posters or PowerPoint presentations of conference papers are not considered in publishing statistics, but they can be entered in Research.fi.
Peer review in conference publications means a peer review carried out on the basis of a entire manuscript, not just an abstract.
Publication Forum
Based on the Publication Forum classification, a level classification is assigned to the publication channel (journal, series, conference or book publisher) in which the publication has been published. Both refereed and non-refereed publications may appear in the same publication channel.
Publications published in channels listed for levels 1 to 3 are refereed scientific publications (A to C), with a few exceptions: Some trade journals (e.g. Suomen lääkärilehti, Duodecim, Liikunta ja tiede, Suomen hammaslääkärilehti ja Suomen eläinlääkärilehti) publish both refereed scientific articles and articles targeted at a professional audience.
If the publication has been published in a scientific publication channel that has not been classified in the Publication Forum, an evaluation of the publication channel in question can be proposed. Proposals can be made on the JUFO portal after logging in. See more detailed instructions at https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/proposals.
The concepts and definitions used in these instructions and in publication data collection are consistent with those used in the Publication Forum.
Field of science classification
In publication data collection, a field of science refers to the subject matter of a publication. The field of science is not primarily determined based on the publication channel or the home department or unit of the authors, but rather on the contents of the specific publication.
One to six fields of science are given for the publication in the order of relevance of each field to the publication. The first field is the so-called primary field of science used for instance for the compilation of statistics on publications. Information on the field of science is essential for monitoring scientific publishing activities.
For the classification of publications, the 2010 Statistics Finland Field of science classification is applied.
Open access
With regard to the open access of a publication, data on the (current) open access of the publisher's version of the publication, the type of open access to the publication channel and the Green Open Access (self-archived) of the publication are collected separately in the publication data collection. Based on this information, it is possible to determine the open access of the publication. In addition, in connection with the open access of the publication, data is collected on the open access fee paid to the publisher as well as on the open access of the PrePrint version of the publication. Regardless of the open access status of the publication channel, it is important that all publications be self-archived to ensure long-term access to them.
Open access to the publication can be achieved through the openness of the publisher's version or parallel recording.
The open availability of a publisher's version of a publication means that the publication is immediately and permanently available in the publisher's service. The publication may have been made open without a separate fee or the publisher may have been paid for the open access of the publication. If the publisher's version is only openly available after the embargo period specified by the publisher, the publisher's version of the publication is not considered open according to the data collection definition, but information on delayed open access can be reported as part of the data collection. However, it is possible to report information on the delayed open access as part of the data collection.
The open availability of a parallel recording (Green OA) version of a publication means that it is permanently available in an organization or scientific field-specific publication archive, either immediately or after an embargo period specified by the publisher.
In all cases, open access to a publication means that the following conditions are met:
- The publication can be read online in full and without restriction, printed out and copied at least for private use.
- The publication is freely available from a service provided by either a publisher or research organization that enables the harvesting of the descriptive information of publications and the indexing of their content to other search services, and which supports references and links to publications using URLs based on permanent identifiers (DOI, URN, Handle)
- The freely available version of the publication is, depending on the publication contract or publisher's policy, either the author's last parallel-archived version or the final version published via the publisher's service If the publication is refereed, the open access version must also be refereed.
In particular, the different development stages of technical systems and the ability to provide a website address that is based on permanent identifiers must be taken into account in the interpretation of condition 2. If the publication has not been given a permanent address, a non-permanent web address can be reported instead. The fulfilment of condition 2 is not yet necessary for parallel storage services maintained by domestic research organizations.
The ability to report the availability of an open PrePrint version of the publication in an organization or scientific field-specific publication archive has also been added to data collection. However, the open version of PrePrint is not considered equivalent to an open publication as defined in the data collection.
As a general rule, so called Free articles, which are opened by journals for marketing purposes and might only be temporarily open, are not to be reported as open access publications unless it is certain that they will remain permanently open.
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Publication outside data collection
Ministry of Education and Culture publication data collection concerns publications that are important to the monitoring of research, development and innovation activities. In addition to these, when an organization decides to do so, it is also possible to submit some publications that are not taken into account in official publication statistics. Such exceptions include conference posts and abstracts, blog publications that do not meet the data collection requirements of the Ministry of Education and Culture and translation versions of publications that do not meet the criteria for producing new information. Publications outside data collection can be browsed in the Research.fi service.
However, even for publications outside data collection, the condition that an author must be connected to the reporting organization must be met. For example, publications produced while affiliated with a foreign organization may not be submitted to the VIRTA publication information service.
However, you can also use the Researcher’s Profile Tool to import publications from your ORCID profile that cannot be submitted through the VIRTA publication information service to your profile in Research.fi.
Publication description - attributes and more detailed references describing the type of publication
Key data included in the publication description is the attributes describing the type of publication (see below), the audience of the publication (scientific, professional, popular), the type of parent publication (e.g. journal, compilation or conference) and the peer review information of the publication.
In the data collection, the publication is reported with attributes that describe the type of publication in question and with more detailed references, such as who has paid for the publication or in which country the publication has been published. Open access references are a key part of publication data collection.
Attributes describing the type of publication
The data collected essentially depends on the format of the publication. Below is a list of all the different publication formats. Click on the title to see what information is reported for publications in each publication format
Articlecan be either original, review, or data article. A few other types of articles may also be reported. The article category also covers introductions and forewords to a book or journal, short research reports, editorials, discussion speeches and comments.
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Monographmay have a scientific, professional or popular audience. Includes monographs/books, development, research or innovation reports based on RDI work, assessments, white papers, working papers and discussion papers. Scientific theses also fall into this group.
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Editorial workmay focus on a journal, a book or a conference publication. The authors are responsible for the editing of the publication, and their names are listed among the editors. Editorial work on books that contain articles by several authors or special journal issues of journals are recorded as editorial work.
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Blogis a blog post based on the author's expertise that is published on an online platform. If there is no editorial board or ISSN ID on the online platform, the blog post will be marked as a publication outside data collection. In the data collection, either professional or popular audiences are reported as the target audience of the blog post.
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Art publicationis the public result of artistic activities. They may be either independent artistic works or separate partial outputs valued in accordance with the practices of different art fields. Examples of the latter include scenography, a work in a joint exhibition or an actor performing a role. In addition, partial artistic outputs that are part of a publication whose context is not primarily artistic, but whose artistic component is valued in the art community in question, are considered an artistic publication. Examples of these include the designs of an architect or designer. Additionally, publications exclusively intended for marketing communications are not reported on. Artistic theses can also be reported.
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Audiovisual publicationis a non-written publication using sound and/or images. An editorial board always decides on the publication of an audiovisual publication, or it has an external client.
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ICT applicationis the source code or algorithm of an ICT application published as commercial or free software. It should be noted that, for example, a web page that utilizes the application is not recorded - only the source code or algorithm of an application stored in an open version management service (e.g. GitHub) is to be reported. It must be possible to refer to both source code and algorithm with a permanent identifier.
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Patents and invention disclosure notificationsA patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by the state to an inventor for the professional utilization of an invention, in return for which the inventor must allow public disclosure of the invention. A patent can be granted for an industrially applicable invention which is new and differs significantly from previous ones. Only one patent issued per invention is entered for foreign patents. In other words, patents granted to different regions/countries are not entered separately. An invention disclosure notification is a written notification that the inventor must immediately submit to a higher education institution when they have created an invention falling within the scope of the Act on the Right in Inventions made at Higher Education Institutions (369/2006). Patents and invention disclosure notifications are only recorded as quantity data. For more detailed definitions, see the Publication data collection instructions for researchers. |
Publications not included in the Ministry of Education and Culture publication statistics
Abstractis a summary of the research methods used in conducting the research, the research results obtained and the interpretations and conclusions drawn from them. Conference abstracts and expanded abstracts can be reported as abstracts. An abstract must be published and at least its reference data must be openly available. Note: Abstracts are not part of the Ministry of Education and Culture's publication statistics, so they are always marked as publications outside data collection.
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Posteris a poster that presents research results in connection with conferences and other events. A poster must be published and at least its reference data must be openly available. Note: Posters are not part of the Ministry of Education and Culture's publication statistics, so they are always marked as publications outside data collection.
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Detailed reference data
Detailed reference data describing the publication concerns open access to the publication and other bibliographical description data, such as the publisher or country of the publication. The requirements for detailed reference data depends on the format of the publication. However, in addition to the required information, it is recommended that the publication be described as comprehensively as possible with any other applicable information. The values used in any code sets are related to data collection and are not per se hierarchical, valuable or evaluation criteria.
Below is a list of all currently used reference data fields.
Reference data concerning open acces
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Open access in the publisher’s service | Open access in the publisher’s service at the time the publication is reported. 0 = Not open | Mandatory for publications with the format Does not apply to research institutes and university hospitals. | ||||||
| OA status of the publication channel | Open access type of publication channel.
| Mandatory, if the publication is marked as openly available in the publisher's service. | ||||||
License of the version in the publisher's service | License of the publication located in the publisher's service. 0 = other license | - | ||||||
Publication fee, open availability, sum | The amount of the fee paid by the organization to the publisher for the open availability of the publication is stated in euros. | - | ||||||
Publication fee, open availability, payment year | Year of payment of the fee paid to the publisher for open access to the organization's publication. | Mandatory if the publication fee has been announced. | ||||||
Self-archived | Information on whether the publication has been self-archived in an organizational or discipline-specific publication archive. 0 = Not self-archived | Mandatory for publications with the format | ||||||
Address of a self-archived publication | Web address (e.g. URN) of the parallel-archived version in the organizational or discipline-specific publication archive. | Mandatory, if the publication is self-archived. | ||||||
Version of a self-archived publication | The version of the self-archived publication according to the following code: 0 = Final draft | - | ||||||
License of a self-archived publication | The licence of the self-archived publication according to the following code: 0 = other license | - | ||||||
Expiration date of the self-archived publications embargo period | Expiration date of the self-archived publications embargo period | - | ||||||
Preprint version | Information on whether a preprint version of the publication is available in the organization- or discipline-specific publication archive. Mark according to the following code: 0 = pre-print version is not available | - | ||||||
Address of preprint version | The web address (e.g. URN) of the preprint version of the organizational or discipline-specific publication archive. | Mandatory, if the availability of the preprint version is marked. |
Other reference information describing the publication
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Subunits | List of subunits involved in making the publication. Code value according to the organization's own code system. | Mandatory information for all publications. Does not apply to research institutes and university hospitals. | ||||||
Artikkelinumero | Article number with which the article was published. Reported as presented in the original article or source database. | - | ||||||
Keywords. | Publication keywords. | - | ||||||
DOI | The DOI identifier of the publication. | Mandatory for publications in the form of: Alternatively, you can enter the information "Permanent Address" | ||||||
The name of the parent publication | The name of the published work in which the article is published. | - | ||||||
Editors of the parent publication | Editors of the published work in the form and order in which they are listed in the original publication or source database. | - | ||||||
First names | First names of the organization's own author. | - (see Last name) | ||||||
ISBN | ISBN of the publication. | Either ISBN or ISSN is mandatory for publications, A3 | ||||||
ISSN | The ISSN number of the series that published the journal, monograph or parent publication, primarily according to the printed version. If there is no printed version, the ISSN number of the electronic version is indicated. | Mandatory for publications, A2 B1 Either ISBN or ISSN is mandatory for publications, A3 | ||||||
Country of publication | Country of publication of the journal, series, monograph or parent publication. | - | ||||||
Publication name | The name of the publication as it is mentioned in the article or work. If necessary, the name of a foreign-language publication can be reported as a transliterated version. | Mandatory information for all publications. | ||||||
Publication id | Identifier for the publication given by the organization | Mandatory information for all publications. | ||||||
Year of publication | The year in which the publication was first published in a version with complete reference information. | Mandatory information for all publications. | ||||||
Internationality | The country of the publisher of the publication or the country where the publication is primarily published. Mark according to the following code: 0 = Domestic publication (The publisher of the domestic publication is Finnish or the publication was published primarily in Finland.) 1 = International publication (The publisher of the international publication is not Finnish or the publication was primarily published elsewhere than in Finland.) | Mandatory information for all publications. Does not apply to research institutes and university hospitals. | ||||||
| Language | The language in which the publication was written according to the Statistics Finland's Languages 2010 classification. | - | ||||||
Conference name | The established name of the conference. | Mandatory information for conference articles (not Editorial work). | ||||||
The publication's place of publication | The town or towns indicated in connection with the name of the publisher of the publication. | - | ||||||
Publisher's name | The name of the publisher as completely as possible. | Mandatory for publications, Either publisher's or journal's name is mandatory for publications, | ||||||
ID of the source database | The identifier or ID number of the publication in the database from which its record was retrieved. | |||||||
Journal's name
| The name of the journal/series as complete as possible and written completely open (no abbreviations). | Mandatory for publications, Either publisher's or journals name is mandatory for publications, | ||||||
Journal's number | Number of the journal or series in which the article appeared. | - | ||||||
ORCID-id | The person's ORCID identifier. | - | ||||||
Permanent identifier (web address) | A web address based on the publication's permanent identifiers (e.g. DOI, URN or handle) that takes you directly to the full-text version of the publication (the access-restricted version located on the publisher's server). | Mandatory for publications in the form of: Alternatively, you can enter the information "DOI" | ||||||
The page numbers | The page numbers of the publication on which the article has appeared in the form as presented in the original article or in the source database. | - | ||||||
Last name | The last name of the organization's own author. There can be several authors and they are reported separately. The name of at least one author must be stated. | Mandatory information for all publications. All authors must also be reported, see Authors | ||||||
Arts | Mandatory for publications in the form of: | |||||||
Authors | Provide full authorship information for the publication in the form and order in which it is listed in the original publication or source database. If only the name of the consortium or research group (=authors jointly responsible) is mentioned as the author name in the original publication, the publication can be reported if the following conditions are met:
If the researcher's name only appears in the acknowledgments section, the publication cannot be reported. Consortium or working group members are not recorded as actual authors, even in the event that a number of individual authors have been separately named as authors of the article, and the consortium or research group is included as a community author. In this case, it is considered that TENK's defined "significant contribution" and research ethical responsibility (see TENK Agreeing on the authorship of scientific publications) are fulfilled only by individuals who have been separately marked for the publication, and that the membership of the consortium or research group is then so-called activity. (See Types and Roles of Activities and Awards; Subsection 5: Membership) | Mandatory information for all publications. The organization's own authors must also be reported, | ||||||
Number of authors | The total number of authors of the publication. | - | ||||||
Academic disciplines | 1-6 disciplines according to Statistics Finland's Fields of science, in the order of which discipline the publication is most concerned with. | Mandatory information for all publications. | ||||||
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Volume | The volume of the journal or series in which the article appeared. | - | ||||||
Joint publication information | Internationality Information on whether the publication is an international joint publication. Reported according to the following code: 0 = Is not an international joint publication A joint publication with a company Information on whether the publication is a joint publication with the company. Reported according to the following code: | Mandatory information for all publications. |
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