Indexing, DOIs, and Making Your Research Discoverable
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 publishing
Abstract
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.