When a panellist signs in to the Publication Forum portal, there will be a list of the panellist’s own Panels that are currently under complementary evaluation. The publication channels proposed for Publication Forum Level 1 will be processed in the annual complementary evaluations (Level 1 criteria). The publication channels that will be evaluated are either proposed by the members of the scientific community or journals or book publishers coming through the publication data collection (VIRTA publication data service) of Finnish universities that have not yet been evaluated. In addition, there are proposals for upgrading those on Level 0 to Level 1 or downgrading those on Level 1 to Level 0. If the column that should contain the level is empty, then the channel has not been evaluated before. If there is a zero in the level column, then this is a channel that was rated at Level 0 in a previous complementary evaluation, but which is now back as a candidate for Level 1.
The deadline of the ongoing complementary evaluation period by which the chairperson of the panel must confirm the evaluation, is notified in the column on the left side of the channel name. The processing period is approximately two months. The default value of the publication channel type is “All”, but if there are a lot of items to evaluate, you can also filter the channels by type (book publishers, series, conferences).
More detailed information on a publication channel can be found in the detailed view, which you can access by clicking on the name of the channel. This information includes bibliographical information, proposals by third parties concerning the publication channel and potential earlier evaluations of the channel in question. A useful tool in complementary evaluation is the list of publications DOAJ has removed from its list (see the tab Removed).
It is the chairperson’s or deputy chairperson’s responsibility to confirm the complementary evaluation of their own panel by the deadline. If the evaluations provided by the panellists are conflicting, the channels will be given the level as follows: primarily based on the evaluation of the chairperson, secondarily by that of the deputy chairperson and thirdly by that of a panel member. The publication channels for which none of the panellists have made a classification proposal, shall remain at Level 0.