International Journal of Neonatology
Indexing and preservation
Six different things are often called indexing. This page separates them and says what is in place for this journal, with the date each was checked.
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Identifier
Journal identifier
An ISSN identifies the journal as a publication. It is a registration, and it is what a library catalog or a citation uses to be sure which journal is meant.
Journal
International Journal of Neonatology
ISSN
2998-4785
Publisher
Open Access Pub
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Persistent links
DOI registration
Articles in this journal are issued with a DOI and registered with Crossref, so that a citation keeps resolving to the article even if the address changes. DOI registration is an identifier service; it is a different thing from a database deciding to index the journal.
Registration agency
Crossref
DOI prefix
10.14302
Where the DOI appears
On the article page, in the article’s citation metadata, and in the record Crossref holds.
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Harvesting
Metadata harvesting
Harvesting is how an aggregator collects a journal’s records in bulk. The publisher runs an OAI-PMH repository, and this journal’s records form a set within it that any harvester can request. Harvesting makes the records available to a service; it does not by itself mean a given service has taken them.
Protocol
OAI-PMH 2.0
Repository
Set for this journal
journal:international-journal-of-neonatology
Metadata format
oai_dc, the Dublin Core format every OAI-PMH harvester supports.
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Being found
Discovery
Discovery services and reference managers read bibliographic metadata from the article page itself. Each article page for this journal exposes that metadata in the standard fields, so the title, authors, affiliations, journal, ISSN, volume, issue, pagination, date, DOI, keywords and full-text link are all machine-readable.
Metadata standard
Google Scholar citation fields, in the article page head.
Fields exposed
The citation record includes the DOI, ISSN, journal title, authors, pagination and a link to the full text.
Full text
Open access, with no subscription and no reader charge.
Reuse
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), stated on each article.
Whether any particular service has taken up a given article is that service’s decision and is recorded by that service, not here. Checked on a published article of this journal, 19 September 2026.
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A separate assessment
Selective journal-level indexing
Some databases assess a journal as a whole — its scope, editorial process, publication record and adherence to standards — and list the journal when it meets their own published criteria. That assessment belongs to the database, and each one keeps its own authoritative record of which journals it covers.
This is the category that the four above are most often mistaken for. An ISSN, a registered DOI, a harvestable record and machine-readable citation metadata are each real and useful, and none of them is selective indexing.
Where the International Journal of Neonatology holds coverage in a selective database, that database’s own record is the authority for it, and this page carries the confirmation once it can cite that record.
For the current position on any specific database, write to [email protected].
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The long term
Digital preservation
Portico
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.
Deposit in PubMed Central for NIH-funded work
Eligible NIH-funded manuscripts may be deposited individually in PubMed Central through the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS).
This is a route available to an author for an individual manuscript. It is separate from journal-level coverage by PubMed, MEDLINE or PubMed Central, which is a database assessment of the kind described above.
Author self-archiving
Authors may deposit the published version in an institutional or subject repository immediately on publication, with no embargo, under the article’s license. A repository copy adds a second place the work survives.
Research data
Authors are encouraged to deposit the data supporting a published article in a repository that issues a persistent identifier, so the work remains independently accessible and reusable. Data-availability expectations are set out in Editorial Policies.
Related
Questions about coverage
Questions about coverage or identifiers are welcome at [email protected].
- Editorial PoliciesReview, ethics, rights and the published record.
- ArchivesThe journal’s published record.
- Aims and ScopeWhat the journal publishes.
The submission page carries the approved routes and the requirements that apply to each.