Janne Pölönen works as the Secretary General of Publication Forum at the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. Since 2010, he has developed community-curated quality classification of peer-reviewed journals and book publishers (Publication Forum), which supports the performance-based research funding system of Finnish universities. His recent publications are in the fields of research assessment, bibliometrics, scholarly communication, open science and learned societies. He is also involved in policy work, including the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication, the National recommendation for the responsible evaluation of a researcher in Finland, and EOSC Co-creation project on Making FAIReR Assessments Possible.