Identifiers, discovery and preservation
Indexing
What is registered, where the journal’s metadata reaches, and how the record is kept, with each service named for the role it plays.
Registration, metadata distribution, discovery, selective indexing and long-term preservation are distinct functions, and this page treats each of them separately.
The editorial office will help an author trace a specific article, or confirm coverage for a particular database or reporting requirement, on request.
The journal
- Published by
- Open Access Pub
- ISSN
- 2641-9181
- Short code
- IJNR
- Access
- Open access, CC BY 4.0
Registration
Identifiers
These make the journal and its articles citable and permanently resolvable.
ISSN
The journal is registered under ISSN 2641-9181.
DOI registration (Crossref)
Articles are assigned DOIs beginning 10.14302/issn.2641-9181, under the publisher’s Crossref prefix 10.14302, and their metadata is registered with Crossref after acceptance and metadata validation. DOI registration establishes a persistent identifier and citation link; selection for an index is a separate editorial assessment, made by each service against its own criteria.
ORCID
Authors are asked to supply an ORCID iD for each author, connecting a person to their work across systems.
Distribution
Metadata and discovery
Metadata deposited for an article travels to services that help readers find it. Inclusion in a discovery service reflects metadata coverage rather than editorial evaluation.
Crossref metadata
Deposited metadata — titles, authors, affiliations and reference lists — is openly available to any service that consumes the Crossref feed.
Google Scholar
Articles are openly available for crawling on the journal platform. Inclusion in Google Scholar depends on its own inclusion criteria and crawling schedule.
The journal platform
Every article is freely readable on the journal site with structured citation metadata, full text and a downloadable PDF and XML.
Preservation
Keeping the record
Long-term availability is a separate commitment from discovery, and is handled by an independent archive.
This journal’s content is committed to Portico, a not-for-profit digital-preservation archive run by ITHAKA (the organization behind JSTOR). As articles are deposited they enter Portico’s permanent archive, so the scholarly record stays available for the long term — even if a title one day ceases to publish.
PubMed Central
Funder deposit
This route applies only to manuscripts arising from NIH-funded research.
Eligible NIH-funded manuscripts may be deposited individually in PubMed Central through the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS).
An individual manuscript deposit places that article in PubMed Central. It is a funder compliance route for the article concerned, and is separate from journal-level indexing.
Selective indexing
Journal-level indexing
A selective index assesses a journal against its own published criteria before deciding whether to cover it. An ISSN, a DOI or a discovery service involves no such assessment.
As checked on 2 October 2026, the journal’s coverage consists of the identifier, metadata, discovery and preservation services described on this page.
If a selective database confirms coverage of the journal, it will be named here with the date of confirmation.
Tracing an article
Checking where an article appears
Metadata deposits and platform sitemaps are what discovery services read, and coverage can vary by platform over time. To check a specific article, send its link and publication date to the editorial office at [email protected] and the deposit record will be checked.
Accurate author names, affiliations and ORCID iDs, funding sources with grant numbers, a structured abstract, and complete references with DOIs in the submitted manuscript are what make an article findable later.
Submission routes
Primary route
Alternative route
Assisted route
Authors must use only one submission route for the same manuscript.