Janne Pölönen
@jpolonen.bsky.social
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
📢 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...
More information and registration: www.helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/5t...
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
📢 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...
More information and registration: www.helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/5t...
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🌍 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...
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...
Amplifying global voices: Removing language barriers in academic conferences
We invite you to share your experiences with language barriers at academic conferences. Your insights will help shape more inclusive and multilingual events across disciplines and formats.
This surve...
forms.gle
September 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🌍 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...
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...
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📣 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...
🎧 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...
Special Seminar: Perspectives on the evaluation of science
We are delighted to host a special seminar featuring the members of Eleonora Dagiene’s external PhD committee, held the day after her PhD defence. This session will bring together three distinguished ...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
📣 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...
🎧 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-...
@almasiproject.bsky.social launches The Diamond OA Policy Forum on 29 October 2025, 15:00-16:30 UTC
Register here: almasiproject.org/the-diamond-...
October 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
🌍💎 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-...
@almasiproject.bsky.social launches The Diamond OA Policy Forum on 29 October 2025, 15:00-16:30 UTC
Register here: almasiproject.org/the-diamond-...
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"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
How much are LLMs changing the language of academic papers after ChatGPT? A multi-database and full text analysis
This study investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) are influencing the language of academic papers by tracking 12 LLM-associated terms across six major scholarly databases (Scopus, Web of Scienc...
arxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"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
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Research 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
➡️ Reclaiming academic ownership of the #ScholarlyCommunication system buff.ly/0C0Wqfn
#OpenScience
August 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Research 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
➡️ 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
📚 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
July 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
→ 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
📚 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 Pölönen
The 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:
👉 download.opencitations.net
Ever wondered how these sources overlap? This chart shows where citations are shared and where they're unique:
July 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The 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:
👉 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....
Mapping the publisher types and collaborations behind Web of Science indexed journals
Abstract. Although the organisational aspects of scholarly journals—such as the types of organisations responsible for publishing individual journals, whether independently or in collaboration—have si...
doi.org
July 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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....
Reposted by Janne Pölönen
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...
June 25, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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...
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/...
Explore #DoLS website: www.tsv.fi/en/services/...
June 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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/...
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...
June 25, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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...
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This 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...
OSF
doi.org
June 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This 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...
OSF
doi.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
📢 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 Pölönen
Glad 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.
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
🚧 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
Reclaiming academic ownership of the scholarly communication system
EUA - European University Association
buff.ly
June 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Glad 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.
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.
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
🚧 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
Reclaiming academic ownership of the scholarly communication system
EUA - European University Association
buff.ly
June 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
📖 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
🚧 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
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💎 📖 #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
for Institutions, Funders, Sponsors, Donors, and Policymakers.
ℹ️ buff.ly/bwSeFJL
#OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenScience #SciencePolicy @eudch.bsky.social
DIAMAS releases Diamond Open Access Recommendations and Guidelines
EUA - European University Association
buff.ly
June 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
💎 📖 #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
for Institutions, Funders, Sponsors, Donors, and Policymakers.
ℹ️ buff.ly/bwSeFJL
#OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenScience #SciencePolicy @eudch.bsky.social
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Universities 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
Read EUA's position paper buff.ly/35qwaif
#AcademicFreedom
How universities can protect and promote academic freedom
EUA - European University Association
buff.ly
June 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Universities 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
Read EUA's position paper buff.ly/35qwaif
#AcademicFreedom
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It'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...
Frankie Robertson helped make this happen, with Nordic-RSE, & wrote about it: nordic-rse.org/blog/joss-ju...
JOSS re-evaluated as JUFO 1 in Finland, expands its definition - Nordic RSE
We bring together the community of people writing and contributing to
research software from Nordic universities, research institutes, companies and
other organizations to share knowledge, to organize...
nordic-rse.org
May 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It'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...
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
May 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
@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...
Ilmoittautuminen ja lisätietoa: www.julkaisufoorumi.fi/fi/tapahtuma...
May 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM
📢 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...
Ilmoittautuminen ja lisätietoa: www.julkaisufoorumi.fi/fi/tapahtuma...
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Papers 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...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
PhD Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research Publishing
PhD candidate Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research PublishingThe past decade has seen the rise of distinct new challenges for research integrity in the context of scientific publishing....
www.universiteitleiden.nl
April 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Papers 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...
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!
Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations - Scientometrics
This study explores ways of identifying learned societies within the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a type of organization that so far lacks its own category within the registry. Despite their ...
doi.org
April 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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 Pölönen
Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title ‘free from pressure or influence’
retractionwatch.com/2025/04/07/m...
retractionwatch.com/2025/04/07/m...
Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title ‘free from pressure or influence’
The managing editors and entire editorial board of Mathematical Logic Quarterly, a Wiley title, have resigned, citing “unilateral decisions” by the publisher “that affected the editorial process.”&…
retractionwatch.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title ‘free from pressure or influence’
retractionwatch.com/2025/04/07/m...
retractionwatch.com/2025/04/07/m...
Reposted by Janne Pölönen
April 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM