Publication Forum is a classification of publication channels created by the Finnish scientific community to support the quality assessment of academic research. Publication Forum expert panels decided to downgrade 60 journals to level 0 from the beginning of 2025 based on the research community's feedback on the quality assessment practices of scientific journals. mer om nyheten på Retraction Watch https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/28/finland-group-downgrades-60-journals/ klipp The Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO) classifies and rates journals and other scholarly publications to “support the quality assessment of academic research,” according to its website. JUFO considers the level of transparency, the number of experts on a publication’s editorial board, and the standard of peer review to make its assessment, which academics can use to determine the credibility of a given title or its publisher. JUFO’s classification ranges from 3, for “supreme-level” publications, to 1, which still counts as legitimate publication. Level 0 means the journal is excluded from the ranking, which may dissuade researchers from publishing with them, James Heathers, a scientific sleuth said. Finland’s university funding model relies on JUFO as a publication quality metric. klipp The 60 journals will be downgraded from level 1 to level 0 at the start of 2025. Of these, 21 are from MDPI, three from Wiley, and three from Frontiers. En av dessa 60 är International Journal of Molecular Sciences som utges av MDPI En koll i Libris visar att den finns på 31 bibliotek https://libris.kb.se/bib/13546608 DOAJ har indexerat 86.235 artiklar i denna populära tidskrift https://doaj.org/toc/1422-0067 En sökning i Swepub på ISSN ger som resultat 1059 artiklar, i denna nollade tidskrift Jan -- Jan Szczepański F.d Förste bibliotekarie och chef för f.d Avdelningen för humaniora, vid f.d. Centralbiblioteket, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek E-post: Jan.Szczepanski63(a)gmail.com