Indexing, Archiving & Discoverability

How the journal is preserved, identified, and made findable worldwide.

Hosting & Long-term Archiving

Identifiers, Metadata & Open Standards

DOI (Crossref)

Every article is assigned a DOI under the prefix 10.11532.

Full-text JATS XML

Articles are produced in JATS-compliant XML, plus HTML and PDF.

Open citations (I4OC)

Reference lists are openly available in line with the Initiative for Open Citations.

ORCID & licences

ORCID iDs and machine-readable licence data are embedded in article metadata.

Discoverability

Because full-text and structured metadata are openly available on J-STAGE with registered DOIs, articles are discoverable through general and scholarly search engines, including Google and Google Scholar. Open licensing of newly published articles further supports indexing, text mining, and reuse.

Indexing Roadmap

The journal is actively working to broaden its indexing in international databases. We are preparing for evaluation by, and intend to apply to, the following services as eligibility criteria are met:

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Scopus Web of Science (ESCI)

This page will be updated as the journal is accepted into additional indexes.