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