Discoverability
Indexing, Registration and Preservation
Where International Marine Science Journal is registered, where its metadata is discoverable, and where its content is preserved — each stated as the kind of service it actually is.
A journal identifier, a DOI registration, a discovery service and a selective index are four different things, and none of them implies another. They are kept separate below so that a reader can see exactly what is in place.
ISSN 2643-0282 (electronic)DOI prefix 10.14302Publisher Open Access Pub
Registration
Journal identifier
- ISSN
- 2643-0282, registered for the electronic edition and resolving to this title in the ISSN Portal. An ISSN identifies a serial; it is a registration, not an assessment of quality and not an index.
- Publisher
- Open Access Pub, which holds the Crossref membership under which this journal's identifiers are registered.
Identifiers
DOI registration
Crossref is DOI and metadata infrastructure. Registering a DOI makes an article citable and persistently addressable; it is not selective indexing and does not imply evaluation of the journal.
- Registration agency
- Crossref, under the publisher prefix 10.14302. Every article carries a DOI in the form 10.14302/issn.2643-0282.imsj-YY-NNNN.
- Coverage
- Every record in the journal's published archive, including correction and retraction notices, which carry their own registered DOI.
- What it provides
- A persistent link that continues to resolve independently of any change to this website, and a metadata record that other services can retrieve. Cite the DOI in preference to a web address.
Every article's DOI is printed on its record in the Archives and on the Current Issue page.
Discovery
Discovery services and scholarly graphs
These services gather metadata broadly and index by crawling or harvesting. Inclusion is not a selective editorial assessment of the journal, and is listed here as discoverability rather than as indexing.
- Google Scholar
- Article pages carry the full Highwire citation metadata set — title, authors, journal title, ISSN, publication date, volume, issue, pagination and DOI — which is the metadata Google Scholar reads.
- OpenAlex
- The journal is held in OpenAlex as source S4210167844, with its works linked to it through their registered DOIs.
Permanence
Digital preservation
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.
Selective indexing
Verified journal-level indexing
A selective index evaluates a journal against published criteria before accepting it, and can remove it. This section lists only services that have been independently confirmed for this journal.
Journal-level indexing entries identify the relevant service and its confirmed coverage. Journal identifiers, DOI registration and broad metadata discovery are described separately above.
The journal's review model is single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Editorial standards and the integrity framework that indexing services assess are set out on the Editorial Policies page, and the journal's published record is in the Archives.
Boundaries
Interpreting coverage
Individual manuscript deposit and broad metadata discovery are distinct from selective journal-level indexing.
- PubMed, MEDLINE and PubMed Central
- Eligible NIH-funded manuscripts may be deposited individually in PubMed Central through the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS). Deposit of an individual manuscript does not indicate that IMSJ is indexed at the journal level in PubMed, MEDLINE, or PubMed Central.
- Citation record
- The journal's citations are openly recorded in OpenAlex under source S4210167844 and can be consulted there directly. The journal publishes no citation-derived metric of its own.
- Metadata harvesting
- Where a third-party service holds this journal's records through DOI registration or metadata harvesting, that is described above as discovery, not as indexing.
Digital preservation
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. Read our preservation policy.