Janne Pölönen works as the Secretary General of Publication Forum at the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. Since 2010, he has developed a community-curated national list of peer-reviewed journals and book publishers, which supports the performance-based research funding system of Finnish universities. Lic.Phil. in history, specialising in ancient Roman law and society research, his recent work is in the fields of research evaluation, bibliometrics, scholarly communication, open science and learned societies. He participates in EU-funded projects on Diamond Open Access publishing standards (DIAMAS) and infrastructures (CRAFT-OA), and open research assessment dataspace (GraspOS). His policy work includes EOSC Task-force on Research Careers, Recognition, and Credit, the National recommendation for the responsible evaluation of a researcher in Finland, and the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication.