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DOAJ & indexing readiness

Check your journal against the real DOAJ application criteria — and the technical items Scopus and Web of Science look for — before you apply. Every line reads from the public record and says how to fix it.

Reads the ISSN Portal, Crossref, DOAJ, OpenAlex and your site live. Nothing is submitted anywhere.

Why check first

DOAJ rejects roughly seven applications in ten, and the top reasons are clerical: the licence, the website not exposing the required information, and ISSN problems — all of which show here in a minute. India's rejected-to-listed ratio is among the worst in the world, almost always for fixable reasons. Check, fix, then apply.

Everything Smart Scholars runsNine sites, one account. A journal starts at the audit; an author starts at Scholar Shield.

For journals & publishers

Start with the audit — it is free, and it is the gate to everything else.

DOI care

Nine services on one journal profile — each previews first and acts only on your approval.

For authors & researchers

Free to use. Nothing you check is shared with the journal.

For institutions, sponsors & DOI operators

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Mon–Sat, 10:00–19:00 IST. The Ask AI button on every page answers about our services at any hour.

What we can register a DOI for

20 kinds of record, one account, one place. Every one gets a DOI that resolves, metadata that indexes read, and a record that stays correct afterwards.
Journals
  • Journal articles
  • Journal titles
  • Pending publications
  • Peer reviews
  • Preprints & posted content
Books & conferences
  • Books
  • Book chapters
  • Book series
  • Book sets
  • Conference proceedings
  • Proceedings series
  • Conference papers
Other research output
  • Theses & dissertations
  • Reports & working papers
  • Report series
  • Standards
  • Databases
  • Datasets
  • Figures, tables & supplements
Funding
  • Grants & funding awards

Elsewhere

The same company, in the places our publishers already read.
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