Indexing, DOIs, and Making Your Research Discoverable
Keywords:
DOI, indexing, ORCID, discoverability, metadata, Crossref, DOAJ, Scopus, Google Scholar, OAI-PMH, persistent identifier, metadata harvesting, JATS XML, Dublin Core, impact factor, CiteScore, h-index, altmetrics, bibliometrics, citation analysis, COUNTER metrics, usage statistics, Web of Science, PubMed, full-text search, similarity check, plagiarism screening, data availability statement, FAIR data, reproducibility, transformative agreement, continuous publishingAbstract
Publication is only the beginning of a paper's life; discoverability determines whether it is read and cited. This article covers the infrastructure that makes research findable: persistent identifiers such as DOIs and ORCID, structured metadata for indexing services, and the OAI-PMH interface that lets aggregators harvest a journal's content. We explain how to register DOIs through a registration agency, why clean and complete metadata matters for services like Crossref, DOAJ, and Google Scholar, and how indexing decisions are made. Editors will find concrete, prioritised steps to improve a journal's visibility, from enabling identifiers to auditing the metadata of every published item.
