We know how important visibility and credibility are to a journal, and including your journal in the right indexing services can help you reach your target audience.
We work with you to ensure journals are included in a range of services. We focus here on the services we get most questions about but if you would like to submit your journal to other services please do get in touch with your in-house editorial contact.
We do not advocate that the way a journal is run be dictated by the conditions of indexing services. However, the submission criteria are useful publication targets and the selection criteria are based on good editorial policy, so they are worth bearing in mind.
Clarivate Analytics
Clarivate own a number of indexing services, including Current Contents, Web of Science and the Science Citation Index. Citation tracking over a number of years by Clarivate enables calculation of an Impact Factor.
Your in-house editorial contact will work with you on a plan to get your journal ready for submission. Once ready, they will help you draft your application and will regularly update you on the evaluation process. Please note Clarivate are very selective and the evaluation process can take a long time.
Journals will be considered for either the Science Citation Index Expanded or the Social Sciences Citation Index depending on scope. All journals will be assessed initially for the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). Coverage in ESCI means increased visibility to your content and more citation data available, but you will not receive an Impact Factor until your journal is accepted into the core products.
Clarivate Analytics outline their criteria in full online here.
Medline
Medline is the National Library of Medicine database of indexed journal citations and abstracts. It is a subset of the articles listed in PubMed, but with additional value-added services such as Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms and access is more restricted.
Their review committee meets three times a year, and we are able to submit journals for review on your behalf
Once your journal is meeting the Medline criteria, your in-house editorial contact will work with you to put together a strong application.
Further guidance on the selection criteria can be found here.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). All articles indexed in PMC are free to download and are also included in PubMed.
We will submit your journal to PMC once you have published 25 peer reviewed articles and will keep you updated on the progress of the application. Journals undergo the following two-step review process which takes several months.
- Scientific and Editorial Quality Assessment. PMC will ask external reviewers to assess the quality of the journal and whether it fits within their scope. See here for further information.
- Technical Evaluation. We will provide PMC with sample articles to test the article feed, and once they are happy we will start sending articles to PMC.
Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature of fields including science, technology and medicine. They will consider journals once they have been publishing for two years. When your journal reaches this milestone we will submit your journal to Scopus.
Journals are assessed by their Content Selection & Advisory Board based on the criteria outlined here.