Discoverability
Indexing and Discoverability
Journal registration, DOI registration, metadata harvesting, scholarly discovery and digital preservation are five different things, and none of them is selective journal-level indexing. This page states which of them applies to the Journal of Medical Informatics and Decision Making, and links the record for each so the status can be checked at source.
ISSN 2641-5526Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302Open accessCC BY 4.0
01 · What these categories mean
Publishers routinely present all of these under one heading. They are not equivalent, and the difference decides what a reader can conclude about a journal. Each row below says what the category is and, just as importantly, what it is not.
| Category | What it is | What it is not |
|---|---|---|
| Journal identification | A registered ISSN identifies the journal in library catalogs and bibliographic systems. | Not an assessment of the journal, and not indexing. |
| DOI registration | Crossref registers a persistent identifier for each article together with the metadata attached to it, so the record stays citable and resolvable. | Not indexing, and not a review of the journal or of any article in it. |
| Metadata harvesting | An OAI-PMH endpoint makes article metadata available to any aggregator that chooses to collect it. | Not evidence that a particular aggregator has collected or listed the journal. |
| Scholarly discovery | Open scholarly graphs and search services build their own records from published metadata and citations. | Not selective indexing: inclusion follows the metadata automatically rather than an editorial evaluation. |
| Selective journal-level indexing | A database evaluates a journal against its own published criteria and then covers the journal as a whole. | Not something a publisher can confer on itself, and not implied by any of the categories above. |
| Digital preservation | An independent archive holds a copy of the published content so it remains available if the publisher cannot serve it. | Not indexing and not discovery, and not the same thing as a website backup. |
02 · Journal identification
The journal is registered with the ISSN International Centre as ISSN 2641-5526. The register entry is a confirmed record, maintained by the ISSN National Centre for the USA, under the key-title Journal of medical informatics and decision making. An ISSN identifies a serial publication; it is assigned on registration and carries no assessment of the journal.
- ISSN
- 2641-5526 (online)
- Register
- ISSN International Centre, via the ISSN National Centre for the USA
- Record
- ISSN Portal record (opens in a new tab)
03 · DOI registration and metadata
Registered articles carry a Crossref DOI under the prefix 10.14302 and keep it permanently. The journal holds a Crossref journal record under Open Access Pub, and each deposit registers the article's metadata alongside its identifier: title, authors, publication date, volume and issue, page range and license.
That deposited metadata is what most other services read. Registering a DOI is infrastructure for citation and resolution — it is available to any member publisher and is not, in itself, indexing.
- Registry
- Crossref
- DOI prefix
- 10.14302
- Record
- Crossref journal record (opens in a new tab)
04 · Metadata harvesting
Open Access Pub publishes an OAI-PMH endpoint, the standard interface aggregators and repositories use to collect metadata. The journal has its own set within it, so a harvester can take this journal's records specifically, in Dublin Core.
Publishing the endpoint makes the records available to be collected. It does not establish that any particular aggregator has collected them, and no aggregator is named here on the strength of it.
- Protocol
- OAI-PMH 2.0, oai_dc
- Endpoint
- https://openaccesspub.org/oai
- Set
- journal:medical-informatics-and-decision-making
- Record
- This journal's records at the endpoint
05 · Scholarly discovery
Two open scholarly services hold a record for this journal and for its articles. Both build their catalogs from published metadata and citation links; a journal appears in them because its metadata is public, not because it has been evaluated against criteria. They are useful for finding and citing work, and they are not selective indexes.
OpenAlex
An open catalog of scholarly works, authors and sources. The journal and its articles are represented in it as a source record. OpenAlex source record (API) (opens in a new tab)
Semantic Scholar
A scholarly search service built on a citation graph. It holds a venue record for the journal, with the articles it has collected listed under it. Semantic Scholar venue record (opens in a new tab)
Author identifiers
Editors and authors are displayed with their ORCID iD where one has been supplied.
06 · Selective journal-level indexing
Selective indexing is decided by each database against its own published criteria, on its own timetable, and a decision applies to the journal as a whole rather than to individual articles. No publisher can grant it to itself, and none of the categories above amounts to it.
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. The status of each was last checked on 10 September 2026.
PubMed Central deposit clarification
Eligible NIH-funded manuscripts may be deposited individually in PubMed Central through the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS). Deposit of an individual manuscript does not indicate that JMID is indexed at the journal level in PubMed, MEDLINE, or PubMed Central.
07 · 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.
Portico’s publisher page lists the participating titles and the current state of each, so the journal’s entry can be read there rather than taken from this page.
- Service
- Portico, operated by ITHAKA
- Listed as
- Medical Informatics and Decision Making, ISSN 2641-5526
- Record
- Open Access Pub on Portico (opens in a new tab)
08 · Check this journal for yourself
Each record below is held by the service that maintains it, not by this publisher. Reading them is the fastest way to confirm anything stated on this page.
| Service | Category | What the record shows |
|---|---|---|
| ISSN Portal (opens in a new tab) | Journal identification | The confirmed ISSN register entry, its key-title and the ISSN National Centre that maintains it. |
| Crossref (opens in a new tab) | DOI registration | Every DOI registered for the journal, with the metadata deposited against it. |
| OAI-PMH endpoint | Metadata harvesting | The journal's records as an aggregator would collect them. |
| OpenAlex (opens in a new tab) | Scholarly discovery | The source record OpenAlex holds for the journal. |
| Semantic Scholar (opens in a new tab) | Scholarly discovery | The venue record and the articles collected under it. |
| Portico (opens in a new tab) | Digital preservation | The publisher's participating titles, including this journal and its ISSN. |
09 · Related pages
JMID · Editorial office
A record that does not look right
If a record linked from this page shows something that does not match what the journal has published — a wrong title, a missing article, a name recorded incorrectly — the editorial office would like to know, and can raise it with the service that holds the record. Write to [email protected].
Journal of Medical Informatics and Decision Making · ISSN 2641-5526 · Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302 · published open access by Open Access Pub under CC BY 4.0. Editorial decisions are independent of any fee, service, membership or role.
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.