Guide to Scholarly Indexes

Lead authors

OpenEdition Center

Contributors 

Arnaud Gingold , Nathan Cuel-Oller , Alessia Bardi , Barbara Wachek , Antti-Jussi Nygård

Introduction

Indexing is crucial for scientific journals to be findable and visible. Being listed in established indexing services is considered a sign of scientific quality, but it takes effort from journals or publishers to be listed there. In the Guide to Scholarly Indexes we describe in a structured way those services that index scientific publications. All descriptions follow the same structured template, which allows you to make easy comparisons between the services and helps you to compile the necessary information for applying to be indexed.

Description

The Guide to Scholarly Indexes is a collection of structured and synthesized documentation about academic publications indexes. The Guide records detailed information about the indexes’ main characteristics, with a particular focus on their data and metadata collection process and requirements. When available, the Guide also provides links to the more exhaustive documentation on the indexes’ websites.

The Guide consists of two outputs: the Knowledge Base (a spreadsheet) and the Catalogue (a Github repository). These two outputs differ in terms of format and usability, but contain the same information. The Knowledge Base is a spreadsheet gathering all the documentation in one file; the Catalogue contains distinct browsable files for each index. 

Link(s) to the output

CRAFT-OA Knowledge Base of Scholarly Indexes
Documentation about indexes for scholarly publications

References

• CRAFT-OA deliverable D5.3 (D5.1 v2): Gingold, A., Cuel Oller, N., Bardi, A., Wachek, B., & Nygård, A.-J. (2025). Update scalable and adjustable documentation of how to understand the aggregators' technical requirements (CRAFT-OA Deliverable 5.3). Zenodo. Update scalable and adjustable documentation of how to understand the aggregators' technical requirements (CRAFT-OA Deliverable 5.3)

• CRAFT-OA deliverable D5.1: Gingold, A., & Cuel-Oller, N. (2024). CRAFT-OA Deliverable 5.1 Scalable and Adjustable Documentation of How to Understand the Aggregators' Technical Requirements (Draft). Zenodo. CRAFT-OA Deliverable 5.1 Scalable and Adjustable Documentation of How to Understand the Aggregators' Technical Requirements