Both publishers criticized the move, first reported in Times Higher Education, as lacking transparency and seeming to target fully open-access publishers.
Finland’s Publication Forum (JUFO) "is a rating and classification system to support the quality assessment of research output", which factors into government funding for universities, according to its website. JUFO rates journals on a scale from 1 to 3, with higher ratings corresponding to more points for funding.
One of the most important changes in scientific publishing in Finland is the sharp increase in the number of articles published especially in MDPI and Frontiers open access journals operating with APC (Article Processing Charge) fees.
