Journal of Nephrology Advances · ISSN 2574-4488
Indexing and Discoverability
Where this journal’s records go, what each service actually does, and the evidence for every arrangement named here.
Six different things are often collected under the word “indexing”. They are set out separately below, because an identifier, a DOI registration, a harvesting endpoint, a discovery catalog, a selective index and a preservation archive each do something different for an author. Every entry carries the date it was checked.
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Journal identifiers
An identifier names the journal so that a record anywhere can point at it unambiguously.
The journal is registered with an International Standard Serial Number, which is the identifier catalogs, libraries and citation systems use to distinguish it from every other title.
EvidenceISSN 2574-4488, registered at the ISSN Portal. Checked 14 September 2026.
An ISSN registration identifies a journal. It is not an assessment of it, and it is separate from every service below.
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DOI registration
A DOI is a permanent handle for one article, so a citation keeps resolving when a URL changes.
The journal registers a Digital Object Identifier for every published article with Crossref, under the publisher prefix 10.14302, and deposits the article metadata — title, authors, affiliations, publication date, license and references — with it. Crossref then makes that metadata available to the many services that read from it.
EvidenceThe Crossref REST API returns a registered work for every article in the journal’s published record under ISSN 2574-4488. Checked 14 September 2026, and open to anyone at api.crossref.org.
Registering a DOI is a metadata service. It is not journal-level indexing, and no database selects a journal because its articles have DOIs.
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Metadata harvesting
Harvesting lets any repository or aggregator collect the journal's records automatically.
The publisher exposes an Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting endpoint, so aggregators, institutional repositories and discovery systems can collect the journal’s article records in Dublin Core without a bilateral arrangement.
EvidenceThe endpoint at openaccesspub.org/oai answers the OAI-PMH Identify request. Checked 14 September 2026.
Articles also carry an ORCID iD for every author who supplies one, and the editorial board records ORCID iDs where members have them, so a person can be followed across the literature rather than matched by name.
Harvesting and author identifiers make records available and resolvable. Each is a different thing from a database choosing to cover the journal.
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Discovery services
A discovery service builds a searchable index from openly available metadata.
OpenAlex, the open scholarly catalog, holds a source record for this journal and links its articles from the Crossref deposits.
EvidenceOpenAlex source S4210214523. Checked 14 September 2026.
A discovery service builds its index from metadata that is already open. Appearing in one reflects the availability of the journal’s records, and each service applies its own coverage rules.
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Selective journal-level indexing
A selective index evaluates a journal against published criteria before covering it.
Databases of this kind — the ones that assess a title and then decide whether to cover it — publish their own criteria and run their own review cycles. This page names a selective index only where the journal’s inclusion has been confirmed, together with the date the confirmation was checked.
StatusAs checked on 14 September 2026, the services this journal can evidence are the identifier, registration, harvesting, discovery and preservation arrangements described on this page. The journal applies to selective indexes as it becomes eligible under their criteria, and any admission will be named here with the date it was confirmed.
Authors who need to know the journal’s status with a particular database for a funder, a promotion committee or an institutional list are welcome to write to info@openaccesspub.org, and the editorial office will answer directly.
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Digital preservation
Preservation keeps the published record readable if the publisher's own systems one day stop.
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.
EvidenceThe publisher’s Portico record is at portico.org/publishers/openap. Checked 14 September 2026.
Authors with NIH funding have a separate route into PubMed Central. Eligible NIH-funded manuscripts may be deposited individually in PubMed Central through the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS).
An individual deposit of that kind places one manuscript in PubMed Central. It is a funder route available to the author, and it is a different thing from a journal being covered by PubMed Central or MEDLINE.
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What this means for a submission
Discoverability follows from the record the journal keeps and the license it publishes under. The pages below carry both.
- Copyright and License — CC BY 4.0, and what anyone may do with a published article
- Data Archiving and Permissions — archiving arrangements and permissions
- Archive — the complete published record, with DOIs
- Editorial Policies — how the record is corrected when something is wrong