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Publication Type D

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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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Publications intended for professional communities

Definition of professional publication (professional audience)

Professional publications refer to publications that disseminate information based on research, development and innovation as well as professional expertise for use by the professional community.

  • The readership of professional publications mainly includes persons trained in the field, applying the information to their practical work. The target audiences of scientific and professional publications may be partly the same, and individual articles published in both groups may be very similar.

Trade journals are an exception to this rule in that they also publish peer reviewed scientific articles. The target audience of refereed scientific articles published in trade journals classified on levels 1 to 3 by the Publication Forum (e.g. Duodecim, Suomen lääkärilehti, Liikunta ja tiede) is entered as “scientific” despite the fact that these journals are primarily aimed at the professional community. The target audience for non-refereed articles in these journals is entered as "professional".

Typically commissioned and published by a public party such as a ministry, agency or state research institution, various analyses and reports based on scientific research and development produced to support political or professional decision-making are also

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