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Publications intended for professional communities

Publication Type D

D Publications intended for Professional Communities

  • Fulfil the definition of a professional publication
  • These also include publications in journals with no ISSN -identifier or scientific books with no ISBN identifier
  • If the article is an introduction to a book or a journal, the author must provide a research contribution to it and the writing must be related to the author's work. Introductions or prefaces that merely describe the editorial work or table of contents of a publication are not reported.

D1 Article in a Trade Journal

  • Article in a trade journal

  • An article in a scientific journal that does not have an ISSN

D2  Article in a Professional Research Book (incl. editor’s introduction)

  • An article in a professional manual or guide, information system or research book, text book material or short articles in an encyclopaedia.

D3 Professional Conference Proceedings

  • Published regularly in the printed or otherwise publicly available publication of a scientific conference.
  • A complete written version of a conference presentation (full paper)

D4 Published development or Research Report or Study

  • A published development or research report or study based on research or expert work that is publicly available.
  • The publisher is generally a non -scientific publisher, usually a public party such as a ministry, a financier, a higher education institution or research institution.

N.B! A publication of a D4 publication type is always recorded as just one monograph -type publication, even if it consists of several sub-articles.

D5 Text book, Professional Manual or Guide or a Dictionary

  • A published professional book, text book, a professional manual or guide or a dictionary.
  • The book has an ISBN number.
  • (The category does not include handouts, online or other similar material created solely for a single course)

D6 Edited Professional Book

  • An edited, published professional research book consisting of articles by various authors or an editorial in a thematic issue of a professional  journal.
  • The authors have been in charge of editing the book, and their names are indicated among the editors.

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