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Akershus universitetssykehus HF
Chr. Michelsen Institute
Departementenes Sikkerhets- og Serviceorganisasjon
Direktoratet for strålevern og atomsikkerhet
Folkehelseinstituttet
Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt
GRID-Arendal
Handelshøyskolen BI
Havforskningsinstituttet
Helse Bergen HF - Haukeland universitetssykehus
Høgskolen i Innlandet
Høgskolen i Molde - Vitenskapelig høgskole i logistikk
Høgskolen i Østfold
Høgskulen i Volda
Høgskulen på Vestlandet
Høyskolen Kristiania
Institutt for Energiteknikk
Kreftregisteret - Institutt for populasjonsbasert kreftforskning
Lovisenberg diakonale høgskole
Meteorologisk institutt
Miljødirektoratet
Nasjonalt kunnskapssenter om vold og traumatisk stress
NILU - Norsk institutt for luftforskning
Nofima
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
Nord Universitet
Norges geologiske undersøkelse
Norges Geotekniske Institutt
Norges Handelshøyskole
Norges Idrettshøgskole
Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat
Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi
Norsk institutt for naturforskning
Norsk institutt for vannforskning
Norsk Polarinstitutt
NUBU – Nasjonalt utviklingssenter for barn og unge
Oslo universitetssykehus HF
OsloMet - Storbyuniversitetet
RBUP Øst og Sør
RURALIS – Institutt for rural- og regionalforskning
SINTEF AS
SINTEF Energi AS
SINTEF Manufacturing
SINTEF Narvik
SINTEF Ocean
St. Olavs Hospital HF
Statens arbeidsmiljøinstitutt
Statistisk sentralbyrå
Tannhelsetjenestens kompetansesentre
Transportøkonomisk institutt
UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Universitetet i Agder
Universitetet i Bergen
Universitetet i Oslo
Universitetet i Stavanger
Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge
Universitetssenteret på Svalbard
Universitetssykehuset Nord-Norge HF
Veterinærinstituttet
VID vitenskapelige høgskole

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Year	Scientific Level	Author Shares	Publication Points
2024	1
2023	1
2022	1	0.5714	0.7559
2021	1	0.1429	0.4914
2020	1	0.9583	1.7681
2019	1	0.0	0.0
2018	1	0.6	0.7746
2017	1	0.0	0.0
2016	1	0.0	0.0
2015	1	0.0	0.0
2014	1	0.0	0.0
2013	1	0.0	0.0
2012	1	0.26	0.26
2011	1	0.1	0.1
2010	1	0.0	0.0
2009	1	0.0	0.0
Published in May the following year

Dear Committee,

I would like to inform the committee that the perspective by one or a few researchers in favor or against a journal must not be considered final for making a decision on the inclusion or exclusion of a journal from the list of journals having a nivå.

I have the experience of reviewing for this journal and have seen that the journal does not discriminate between articles with positive or negative results on the effects of an intervention. At least they enter equally to the review process, but what has made the rejection of studies with a nonsignificant result has been mainly weaknesses in the methods section or the whole quality of presentation.
The presence of many studies with positive results of an intervention on an outcome published by this journal can not be considered a bias by the ‘’editorial team’’. Rather it could be the submission of many studies to this journal with such a relationship between the intervention and outcome.

Finally, interests of publishing studies reporting a positive effect of an intervention is a problem affecting all journals nationally and internationally. The following is an example of journal of lancet, as the best journal in health science:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/014067369190201Y

Sincerely,

Dear Mojtaba,

Thank you for your comment.
We decided to put the journal at level X in accordance with the recommendation from the scientific panel. We will reconsider it at the next decision meeting, based on feedback and other available information about the journal, your feedback included.

Kind regards,
Lena-Cecilie Linge

As far as I can tell, Explore: the journal of science and healing, seems to exist in order to publish positive findings of studies of various alternative medicines that have been demonstrated in other, better, journals to have only placebo effects. The editor-in-chief (Larry Dossey) promotes the use of prayer in medicine and many of the editorial board have similarly dubious backgrounds. Co-editor-in-chief Ben Kligler promotes yoga and acupuncture. Dean Radin is an exponent of "quantum waffle" a la Deepak Chopra and thinks that inanimate objects can be psychically imbued with healing powers.

The articles contained in the latest edition (Vol 18, Iss 5) discuss variously: Reiki (reporting positive results), electric cars (not sure how this relates to either spirituality or healing), alien abductions (I am not kidding), aromatherapy (reporting positive results), acupuncture (reporting positive results), telepathy (reporting positive results - again I am not making this up), acupressure (reporting positive results), Ayurvedic "medicine" (something about chakras, again reporting a positive result), thought field therapy (more psychic powers - again, reporting a positive effect), herbal medicine (again, a positive result)... need I go on? This is just a single issue and this journal has been pumping out this nonsense for decades.

The journal even has a "Cochrane Corner" where they "respond" to Cochrane Collaboration systematic reviews, presumably any that they disagree with.

It is utterly outrageous that this journal is STILL listed as Nivå 1 despite an obvious pro-alternative medicine bias in the editorial board and its lobbying against evidence-based medicine. What is equally outrageous is that this journal is also – bizarrely – indexed in Web of Science. I can only assume that once you are indexed in WOS you have to shoot somebody in the street in order to have that status removed.

It is published by Elsevier - a supposedly "reputable" publisher - but they should frankly be taken to task for enabling this journal for so long.

Researchers at Norwegian institutions published in this journal in the years 2011, 2012, 2018, 2020, and 2021. I imagine that they will continue to do so until it is downgraded.

Hi again,

We have decided to put the journal at level X, in accordance with the recommendation from the scientific panel. We will reconsider it at the next decision meeting, based on feedbacks and available information.

Kind regards,
Lena-Cecilie Linge

The journal will be discussed with the committee for health sciences. We will follow it up at the decision meeting in January.

Kind regards,
Lena-Cecilie Linge

Hi,

We will go through the journal again.
We reconsidered the journal in 2019 and could not find reasons for taking it down to 0.

Kind regards,
Lena-Cecilie Linge

International Title:	Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
p-ISSN:	1550-8307 Period: [2005 .. ]
e-ISSN:	1878-7541 Period: [2005 .. ]
Language:	English
Country of publication:	United States
URL:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/1[..]
Publishing House:	Elsevier
ITAR Code:	1006494
NPI Scientific Field:	Public, Environmental and Occupational Health

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

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