Smart Scholars
Hyderabad, India · serving journals in India and the Global South
Who we are
Smart Scholars is a Hyderabad-based service company for scholarly journals. Most of our clients run on Open Journal Systems, publish open access, and want to be found in DOAJ, Google Scholar, Scopus and the national registers their authors' universities recognise. We give them the technical standing those bodies check, and keep it there.
We built our own tools to do it — Journal Audit, GetIndexed and DOI Doctor — because the alternative for a small journal was a spreadsheet, a sponsor's Excel file and hope.
Memberships
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) — Smart Scholars is a member and is listed in its member directory. See the listing ↗
European Association of Science Editors (EASE) — Our Authorised Signatory, Rahul Raj Akkali, is an individual member of EASE, and Smart Scholars is listed in EASE’s Register of Editorial Services. See the listing ↗
Programmes
Internet Archive uploader; Zenodo community manager for client journals.
Contact
- Organisation
- Smart Scholars
- Address
- 304, MK Residency, Srinivasa Colony, Uppal, Hyderabad – 500039, Telangana, India
- Phone / WhatsApp
- +91-9885134413
- mou@smartscholars.in
- Authorised signatory
- Rahul Raj Akkali
Our mission
To give every scholarly journal, however small, the technical standing that indexes and readers check — DOIs that always resolve, records that are complete and true — and to show the evidence for every line.
Our vision
A scholarly record in which every work can be found, cited and trusted, and in which the checking is done in the open, where anyone can see it.
What we hold to
- Evidence on every line: every figure we show links to the register it came from.
- Nothing is deposited, sent or published for a journal until the journal approves it.
- No citations for sale, no impact factors claimed, no guarantee of acceptance by any index.
- A DOI is forever: once given, it is never given again and never stops resolving.
- Accountable: Rahul Raj Akkali — for our policies, the Registry, and how we handle your data. Governance
