Indexing

Smiley face Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other scholarly literature, including court opinions and patents. While Google does not publish the size of Google Scholar's database, scientometric researchers estimated it to contain roughly 389 million documents including articles, citations and patents making it the world's largest academic search engine in January 2018. Previously, the size was estimated at 160 million documents as of May 2014.


Smiley face An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication, such as a magazine. The ISSN is especially helpful in distinguishing between serials with the same title. ISSNs is used in ordering, cataloging, interlibrary loans, and other practices in connection with serial literature.


The German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB) is one of the world’s largest databases for journals, newspapers, monographic series and other serial publications from all countries, in all languages, without time restrictions, in printed, electronic or digitised form. The participation is free of charge and open for all libraries and institutions. Currently more than 3.700 libraries in Germany and Austria catalogue serial titles and local holdings information in the ZDB. Title records already existing can be reused. The ZDB provides access to data and services related to periodicals and thus forms the basis for a variety of services offered by the library networks and libraries in Germany and Austria.


Smiley face ICI World of Journals is a global database dedicated to scientific journals from around the world. Each Editorial Office registered in the ICI World of Journals database obtains free of charge access to the IT system that gives a possibility to run a Journal Passport – an up-to-date showcase of a journal on the Internet. Apart from information about the Editorial Board Team, publisher, journal website, or a description, the Editorial Office can publish information about scientific articles.


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ResearchBib is indeed an open-access indexing database with high standards, aimed at researchers and publishers. It focuses on freely indexing various research materials, including journals, papers, calls for papers, and research positions. The platform emphasizes building research communities and maximizing the impact of researchers' work.


WorldCat.org is a resource for locating unique, trustworthy materials that you often can't find anywhere except in a library. By connecting thousands of libraries' collections in one place, WorldCat.org makes it easy for you to browse the world's libraries from one search box and it is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.


Semantic Scholar is an artificial-intelligence backed search engine for academic publications developed at the Allen Institute for AI and publicly released in November 2015. It uses advances in natural language processing to provide summaries for scholarly papers. The Semantic Scholar team is actively researching the use of artificial-intelligence, machine learning, Human-Computer interaction, and information retrieval.


The SJIF refers to "Scientific Journal Impact Factor" and RJIF to "Research Journal Impact Factor." The former is an indexing service for journals while the latter is used to evaluate the prestige of journals. SJIF Publishers Panel is full list of journals from database of SJIFactor.com. It contains currently over 22000 journals from all over the world.This section allows you to place information about the journal, editors, and publisher, etc.