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What we have actually done

Every claim on this page carries the link that proves it — Crossref, OpenAlex, the ISSN Portal. Nothing here is a promise about the future; it is a record of work that has landed. · RSS feed

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DOI Doctor — check & repair

Every DOI tested at doi.org and Crossref; dead links, abstracts, licences, ORCIDs.

27 September 2026 Read →

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What Crossref holds about you

Your own public record, read back in under a minute — no account needed.

26 September 2026 Read →

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DOIs for funding

Grants & funding awards — 1 of the 20 record types we register.

25 September 2026 Read →

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DOIs for other research output

Theses & dissertations, reports & working papers, report series, standards, databases, datasets and figures, tables & supplements — 7 of the 20 record types we register.

24 September 2026 Read →

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DOIs for books & conferences

Books, book chapters, book series, book sets, conference proceedings, proceedings series and conference papers — 7 of the 20 record types we register.

23 September 2026 Read →

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DOIs for journals

Journal articles, journal titles, pending publications, peer reviews and preprints & posted content — 5 of the 20 record types we register.

22 September 2026 Read →

Milestone

20 kinds of record, one DOI account, one place

Smart Scholars registers 20 kinds of record with Crossref — not journal articles alone, but books, chapters, conference papers, theses, datasets, standards and grants.

21 September 2026 Read →

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Everything you can put a DOI on

Twenty kinds of record, not just articles - books, chapters, proceedings, theses, datasets, peer reviews, grants and more.

20 September 2026 Read →

Everything Smart Scholars runsNine sites, one account. A journal starts at the audit; an author starts at Scholar Shield.

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
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 (151 databases)what each database wants, before you apply
Reference Boosterreference lists read from the PDFs, matched to DOIs, written into OJS and Crossref
Citation Boosterwhat 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

Nine services 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
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 agent fee
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.

Scholar Shieldis this journal safe to publish in?
Journal Checkone journal, checked against the public record
Journal Risk Radaran early-warning score 0–100: the behaviour that precedes delisting, hijacking and retractions
Manuscript ScreenAI-writing, paper-mill, reference and image signals with the evidence — before you submit
ScholaRef — reference checkyour reference list checked for retractions and dead DOIs
My recordyour own publications, gathered and kept current
Visibilitywhere your work is findable, and where it is not
Alertstold when something changes about a journal you published in
Certificate & passporta dated record you can attach to an application

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
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, and who is accountable
How it worksthe order things happen in
All serviceseverything on one page
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
Privacywhat we collect, what we do not — read out of the code
Deleting your dataone email, and exactly what happens after it
WhatsApp +91-9885134413a person, in working hours
Email mou@smartscholars.infor anything with an attachment

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

Funding

Grants & funding awards

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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