Journal of Otolaryngology Advances · Indexing
Where JOA is registered, harvested and preserved
Every service that carries this journal is named on this page, in the section for what that service actually does, with a link to the record so it can be read at the source. The status of each was last checked on 10 September 2026.
ISSN 2379-8572 (electronic) Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302 OAI-PMH set journal:otolaryngology-advances
Four different things, kept apart
Registering an identifier, depositing a DOI, exposing metadata for harvest and being selected by an indexing database are four different relationships, and only the last of them is what a researcher normally means by “indexed”.
A single list headed “Indexed in” hides that difference, and a journal that mixes the four is asking a reader to infer selective coverage from an identifier registration. This page keeps them in separate sections and states, for each service, what it does and what it does not establish.
The categories below distinguish journal identifiers, DOI registration, metadata harvesting, scholarly discovery, selective journal-level indexing and digital preservation.
Journal identifiers
An identifier makes the journal citable and machine-resolvable as a distinct title. It says nothing about editorial selection, and it is not indexing.
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ISSN
International Standard Serial Number
The journal holds a confirmed electronic ISSN, 2379-8572, registered through the ISSN National Centre for the USA. The register records the key title Journal of otolaryngology advances and the variant title JOA. The linking ISSN is the same number.
portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2379-8572 (opens in a new tab)
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ROAD
Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
ROAD is the ISSN International Centre’s directory of open-access scholarly resources. It is a register of open-access titles that hold an ISSN, and inclusion follows from the ISSN record rather than from an editorial assessment of the journal.
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ORCID
Author and editor identifiers
ORCID iDs are displayed for editorial board members who have supplied one, and authors are asked for an iD at submission so that a person can be distinguished from every similarly named person in the literature. ORCID identifies people; it does not index journals.
DOI registration
A DOI is a permanent identifier and a metadata deposit. Registering one places an article’s bibliographic record in a public infrastructure that reference-linking, citation matching and reference managers all read. It is a registration, not a selection.
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Crossref
DOI registration and metadata deposit
The journal deposits article metadata with Crossref under the prefix 10.14302, and Crossref holds a journal record for ISSN 2379-8572 with Open Access Pub as the publisher. Each registered DOI resolves through doi.org to the article’s page on this site. Crossref also supplies the Similarity Check service, powered by iThenticate, used during screening.
Registered DOIs are printed with each record in the archive. Where an article carries no DOI line, no identifier has been registered for it and the article’s own page is the citable location.
Metadata harvesting
Harvesting is how repositories, aggregators and library discovery layers collect records without a bilateral agreement. The publisher exposes an open endpoint; any service may read it. Being harvestable is a property of the infrastructure, not a coverage decision by any database.
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OAI-PMH
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
The publisher runs an OAI-PMH version 2.0 endpoint that serves Dublin Core records. This journal’s records form the set journal:otolaryngology-advances, which a harvester can request on its own.
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Article metadata
Bibliographic tags on every article page
Each article page carries the Highwire-style citation_ metadata tags that scholarly crawlers read, including title, authors, journal title, ISSN, volume, issue, page range, publication date and a direct link to the PDF. The tags are in the page source and can be inspected on any article.
Scholarly discovery services
A discovery service builds an open index of scholarly works from DOI deposits, harvested metadata and crawling. Coverage is automatic and broad rather than selective, so appearing in one records that a work is findable — not that a database has evaluated the journal.
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OpenAlex
Open catalog of scholarly works
OpenAlex holds a source record for the journal under ISSN 2379-8572, with Open Access Pub as the host organization, and links the journal’s works to it.
api.openalex.org/sources/issn:2379-8572 (opens in a new tab)
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Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar corpus
Articles from this journal appear in the Semantic Scholar corpus under the venue name Journal of Otolaryngology Advances, with their DOIs attached.
semanticscholar.org — Journal of Otolaryngology Advances (opens in a new tab)
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Search engines
General and scholarly web search
Article pages, the archive and this journal’s issue pages are open to crawlers, and each article carries the bibliographic tags described in section 04 together with a linked full-text PDF. That is the arrangement scholarly search engines read; how any one of them then ranks or clusters a record is decided by that engine, not by the publisher.
Selective journal-level indexing
A selective index evaluates a journal against published criteria and then admits the title as a whole. It is the strongest discoverability claim a journal can make, and it is the one claim this page will not make on inference.
Every service that carries this journal is named on this page, in the section for what that service actually does. Nothing appears here that has not been checked at the source, and the check date is stated at the top of the page. If you need written confirmation of the journal’s status with a particular database for a funder, promotion or institutional report, the editorial office will supply what the record shows.
Journal-level evaluation is a continuing editorial responsibility rather than a milestone, and it rests on the things this journal can control: a complete and accurate metadata deposit for every article, a published and applied editorial policy, a declared license, and a stable archive. Those are the subject of the editorial policies page.
PubMed Central deposit for NIH-funded work
Eligible NIH-funded manuscripts may be deposited individually in PubMed Central through the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS).
This is a route for an individual manuscript, opened by the funding attached to that manuscript. Individual manuscript deposit does not establish journal-level indexing, and it should not be read as PubMed, MEDLINE or PubMed Central coverage of the journal.
Authors with an NIH award should tell the editorial office at submission so the accepted manuscript, the license and the award number are prepared in the form NIHMS expects.
Digital preservation
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.
Read our preservation policy. The publisher’s own Portico record lists this journal by title and ISSN and can be read directly.
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Portico
Publisher preservation record
The Portico publisher page for Open Access Pub lists Otolaryngology Advances with ISSN 2379-8572 among the titles in the publisher’s preservation arrangement, together with the status of each.
What an author controls
Most of what decides whether a published article is found again is fixed at submission and at proof, by the author. A record with a misspelled name, a missing affiliation, an absent ORCID iD or an unstated funder is harder to attribute, harder to aggregate and harder to credit, and every one of those is corrected far more easily before publication than after.
- Author names are given in the form you publish under, with the same spelling on every submission
- An ORCID iD is supplied for each author who has one
- Affiliations are complete, including department and country
- Funders and award numbers are named in the funding statement
- The abstract states the question, the method and the finding, in the words a colleague would search for
- Keywords name the anatomy, the condition, the intervention and the study design
- Datasets and trial registrations are cited with their own identifiers, in the references as well as in the statement
- The proof is checked against the manuscript for names, affiliations and reference details before it is approved
Preparation requirements are set out in full on the instructions for authors page.
Where to go next
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Archive
The complete published record, with the registered DOI printed against each article.
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Editorial policies
Ethics, corrections, retractions and the standards that a metadata record reflects.
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Instructions for authors
How to prepare a submission so its published record is complete and accurate.
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Copyright and license
The license under which articles are published and what reuse it permits.
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Aims and scope
The subject territory, the study designs accepted and the boundary of the journal.
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About the journal
What the journal publishes, for whom, and how a manuscript is handled.
Confirming the journal’s status
Every record named on this page is public and can be opened from it. If a funder, an institution or a promotion committee needs the journal’s status with a specific service in writing, the editorial office will confirm what the record shows.
Journal of Otolaryngology Advances (JOA)
ISSN 2379-8572 · Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302 ·
Published by Open Access Pub ·
Articles are published under CC BY 4.0 with copyright retained by the authors.