Indexing And Abstracting

Discoverability and Metadata Transparency

Indexing and Abstracting

Multidisciplinary Journals (MJ)  |  e-ISSN 3047-8499

Multidisciplinary Journals (MJ) makes its published content and metadata discoverable through the verified services and scholarly infrastructure listed on this page. Each service is described according to its actual function so that an ISSN registry, DOI registration agency, search engine, citation-discovery platform, repository, and abstracting or indexing database are not presented as equivalent.

IdentityISSN and journal title record
RegistrationDOI and deposited metadata
DiscoverySearch, abstracts, and citations

1. Journal Identity and Metadata Infrastructure

Clarification: ISSN registration identifies the serial; Crossref registers DOI metadata; and OAI-PMH enables harvesting. These services support journal identity and interoperability but are not, by themselves, evidence of citation-index coverage or national accreditation.

2. Discovery, Abstracting, and Directory Services

Coverage can differ by service and article. A journal profile does not guarantee that every article has been harvested, indexed, cited, or displayed correctly. Authors should use the DOI and the official MJ article page as the authoritative publication reference.

3. Status Disclosure

No implied equivalence Inclusion in a search engine, directory, DOI registry, or metadata service does not mean that MJ is indexed by Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, or DOAJ, and does not establish a SINTA accreditation ranking. MJ will display such a status only after it can be verified through the official database or accreditation decree, including the applicable validity period where required.

The journal does not use a privately issued “impact factor,” journal score, badge, or certificate in a manner that could be confused with Clarivate Journal Citation Reports, CiteScore, SCImago Journal Rank, or an official national accreditation result.

4. Metadata Requirements for Authors

Accurate and complete metadata improves discovery, attribution, citation linking, and long-term identification. Authors must ensure that the article template, title page, manuscript, and OJS submission record contain consistent information.

Metadata Element Author Requirement
Title and abstract Use an accurate, specific title and a structured or informative abstract that reflects the objective, method, principal findings, and conclusion, following the article template.
Keywords Provide specific keywords representing the topic, method, population, discipline, or geographic context; avoid repeating only words already contained in the title.
Authors and affiliations Enter every author's name, agreed order, institutional affiliation, city, and country consistently. ORCID iDs are strongly encouraged and must belong to the named author.
Declarations Provide contributor roles, funding, competing interests, ethics approval, informed consent, data availability, acknowledgements, and permitted generative-AI disclosure where applicable.
References and identifiers Ensure that references are complete, cited in the manuscript, and formatted consistently. Include verified DOI links in the form https://doi.org/... whenever available.
Submission consistency The OJS metadata, title page, blinded manuscript, accepted manuscript, and publication proof must remain consistent, subject to double-blind-review anonymisation requirements.

Detailed layout, language, structure, citation style, and file-format instructions remain governed by the Author Guidelines and the official MJ article template. This page addresses discoverability requirements and does not replace those documents.

5. Journal Metadata Responsibilities

  • assign and activate a unique DOI for each eligible published item;
  • deposit accurate bibliographic metadata, URLs, dates, author information, licensing, references, and updates with the relevant registration service;
  • maintain functional article landing pages, PDF files, OAI-PMH output, and archive links;
  • use standard OJS metadata fields and avoid hidden keywords, deceptive metadata, citation manipulation, or SEO-spam;
  • correct metadata errors and communicate material changes to relevant services where technically possible;
  • monitor unexpected redirects, malicious links, unauthorised pages, and search-engine indexing anomalies; and
  • retain the authoritative scholarly record under the journal's Digital Preservation and Post-Publication policies.

6. Corrections to Indexing and Metadata

Authors and readers may report a missing article, duplicate record, incorrect author name, affiliation error, broken DOI, inaccurate title, suspicious external link, or another discovery problem. The journal will first verify the version of record and OJS metadata, correct its own record when appropriate, and then request an update from the relevant third-party service where that service provides a correction mechanism.

Third-party databases control their own coverage, update schedule, citation counts, merging, ranking, and display. MJ can submit accurate metadata and correction requests but cannot guarantee when or how an independent service will implement them. A substantive change to the published scholarly record must follow the journal's Corrections, Expressions of Concern, or Retraction policies rather than being made silently for indexing purposes.

7. Verification and Contact

Indexing and discovery coverage can change. MJ reviews the links and descriptions on this page periodically and removes or revises claims that can no longer be verified. A new database, ranking, accreditation, or metric will be displayed only with a direct official record.

Report a Metadata or Indexing Issue Include the article title, DOI or OJS URL, affected service, and evidence of the discrepancy. Journal Contact Page MJ Archives
Verification note: Links and descriptions reviewed against available official or direct service records in August 2026. Service coverage and third-party displays may change after review.