Publication Forum started operating in 2010, first in project form. The decision to establish the Forum was based on persistent work to develop research quality assessment, started in the mid-90s as universities took over result-oriented management models.
Publication Forum (in Finnish often referred to as JUFO) is a rating and classification system to support the quality assessment of research output. To account for the different publication cultures characteristic of various disciplines, the classification includes academic journals, book series, conferences as well as book publishers. The three-level classification rates the major foreign and domestic publication channels of all disciplines as follows:
Publication Forum review of ratings in 2022
On this page you can search summaries of statements issued by the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK concerning allegations of violations of research integrity (RI).
Allegations of RI violations are always investigated within the organisation in which the suspected violation occurred or where the person against whom the allegation is made was working when it occurred. Once the allegation has first been addressed under the organisation’s RI process, the party dissatisfied with the ruling may request a statement from TENK.
On this page is a list of organisations that have committed to compling with The ethical principles of research with human participants and ethical review in the human sciences in Finland. Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK guidelines 2019 (PDF).
Universities
On this page is a list of organisations that have committed themselves to following TENK's guidelines The Finnish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and Procedures for Handling Alleged Violations of Research Integrity in Finland 2023 (PDF) also known as the RI Guideline and Responsible conduct of research and procedures for handling allegations of misconduct in Finland.
Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK was founded in 1991 to address ethical questions relating to research and to the advancement of research ethics in Finland (Decree 1347 of 15 November 1991).
According to the decree, TENK shall
The Responsible Research series (ISSN 2670-062X) is published by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) and the Committee for Public Information (TJNK). The publisher is established in Helsinki. The series will be published as open access web publications. It may also be published in print.
Here you will find publications of the Committee for Public Information including the memoranda, reports and other material created in conjunction with or relation to the Committee’s operations.
