Everything Smart Scholars runsNine sites, one account. A journal starts at the audit; an author starts at Scholar Shield.
What we do: DOIs registered from what a journal already has · Crossref records completed — references, abstracts, licences, ORCID iDs, affiliations and ROR IDs, funding · DOIs that resolve · articles preserved · journals rated on the public record · see everything we do →
For journals & publishers
Start with the audit — it is free, and it is the gate to everything else.
- What Crossref holds about youyour own public record, read back in under a minute — no account needed
- Metadata completeness scoreone score for any journal, DOI prefix or Crossref member, beside large publishers — free, no account
- Journal Audit — free readiness audit121 criteria: identity, governance, ethics, access, technical, content
- Fix list & re-audita plain list an editor can hand to the OJS host
- GetIndexed — indexing applicationsan 8-stage ladder from ISSN and DOIs to the selective indexes
- Index directory (153 databases)what each database wants, before you apply
- Open-access books: DOAB and OAPENfor publishers of peer-reviewed open-access books
- Reference Boosterreference lists read from the PDFs, matched to DOIs, written into OJS and Crossref
- Citation Checkwhat stops citations, article by article — proof, path and meaning
- Never citedevery zero-citation article checked in the open citation sources
- Digital archivesevery PDF mirrored to the Internet Archive, Zenodo and the Wayback Machine
- Article formattinga manuscript typeset to the journal template, with galleys
DOI care
Every service on one journal profile — each previews first and acts only on your approval.
- DOI Doctor — check & repairevery DOI tested at doi.org and Crossref; dead links, abstracts, licences, ORCIDs
- Smart Deposita new DOI from your PDF, Word file, article page, JATS XML or spreadsheet — every value shown with its source, deposited once you confirm it
- DOI census (Excel)site against Crossref, both directions, with a copy-paste fix per article
- Backfile DOIsDOIs for older articles that never had one — no per-DOI fee of ours
- Write DOIs into OJSthe verified DOIs pushed onto your article pages through your own API
- Silent-failure monitorweekly checks of site, OAI-PMH, Scholar tags, ISSN, preservation, hijack lists
- Verified metrics & badgesa public, dated, source-linked metrics page and a "cited by" badge
- Quality dossier (PDF)one PDF for universities, authors and reviewers
- Author citation enginethe citation steps emailed to each author from the journal's own mailbox
- JATS XMLmachine-readable JATS per article
- Duplicate articlesthe same paper published twice — you choose which copy stays
For authors & researchers
Free to use. Nothing you check is shared with the journal.
For institutions, sponsors & DOI operators
- Research Integrity Deskfor universities, funders and government
- Evaluate a journalone journal, with the method shown
- Methodologyexactly how every figure is arrived at
- Watchlistthe journals your people are publishing in
- Research Integrity OSfaculty vault, policy engine, compliance desk, QR-verified reports
- Risk radar for institutionsevery journal in your vault re-scored weekly, with alerts on the journals you watch
- Pre-submission screeningmanuscripts screened for AI-writing, paper-mill, reference and image signals before they go out
- Portfolio Consolefor sponsors, hosts and societies — many journals at once
- DOI Membersthe repair layer for DOI operators
- Journals hubCOPE, CRediT, robust links, readiness and rating in one place
- Screening desk for editorssubmissions, your recent output as the record shows it, and reviewer reports that look alike
Smart Scholars
Mon–Sat, 10:00–19:00 IST. The Ask AI button on every page answers about our services at any hour.
- About uswho we are, what we hold to, and who is accountable
- Memberships and commitmentswhat we belong to, what we have applied for, and what we hold ourselves to
- How it worksthe order things happen in
- What Smart Scholars doesevery live service, by what it puts right in a Crossref record
- All serviceseverything on one page
- Questions and answerswhat journals, authors and institutions ask us most
- Communityquestions, suggestions and facts, discussed in the open
- Reviewswhat clients and authors say, in their own words
- Contact formsend us the journal and what you need
- WhatsApp +91-9885134413a person, in working hours
- Email mou@smartscholars.infor anything with an attachment
Policies
- Privacywhat we collect, what we do not — read out of the code
- Our cookiesevery one, when it is set and for how long
- Trust and securitywhere your data lives, how it is kept safe, what happens if something goes wrong
- Terms of servicethe rules for the sites and our services
- Cancellation & refundswhen money comes back, and how fast
- How services are deliveredonline, and how quickly
- Accessibilitywhat we checked, what we put right, what is still to do
- Deleting your dataone email, and exactly what happens after it
- Responsible research assessmentwhere citations and journal grades count in our tools — said plainly
- Licencesnewsroom posts CC BY 4.0 · DOI metadata CC0 · everything else ©
- Multilingual metadataa title in its own script, transliterated and translated; an author in two scripts — one record, every form
- Registry governancewho runs it, how its rules change, if it stops
- Registry policiesnaming, metadata, persistence, privacy, fees
What we can register a DOI for
20 kinds of record, one account, one place. Every one gets a DOI that resolves, metadata that indexes read, and a record that stays correct afterwards.Journals
- Journal articles
- Journal titles
- Pending publications
- Peer reviews
- Preprints & posted content
Books & conferences
- Books
- Book chapters
- Book series
- Book sets
- Conference proceedings
- Proceedings series
- Conference papers
Other research output
- Theses & dissertations
- Reports & working papers
- Report series
- Standards
- Databases
- Datasets
- Figures, tables & supplements
Verified
Each badge opens the register or the source that holds the fact.Elsewhere
The same company, in the places our publishers already read.
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