Metadata & Research Discoverability

Each journal should maintain accurate information concerning its identity, publishing arrangements, and scholarly scope.

Journal-level metadata should be reviewed when there are material changes to the journal title, ISSN, publication frequency, publisher, ownership, URL, language, scope, or publishing platform.

A journal should not use metadata belonging to another publication or represent an identifier, title, or publication history inaccurately.

Abstracts should provide an accurate and concise representation of the scholarly work.

For original research, an abstract should normally communicate the research purpose, principal approach or methodology, important findings, and main conclusion where applicable.

Abstract metadata should correspond with the abstract appearing in the Version of Record.

Claims or numerical results that are not supported by the article should not be introduced into metadata merely to increase visibility or perceived significance.

Author names should be recorded carefully and consistently so that scholarly contributions can be attributed to the correct individuals.

The spelling, initials, order, and presentation of author names in metadata should correspond with the authorship information approved for publication.

Authors should verify their names and authorship order before final publication.

Fabricated author identities, purchased authorship, undeclared authorship, or metadata manipulation intended to misrepresent scholarly contribution is inconsistent with Macaw Publications research-integrity requirements.

Authors may provide an ORCID iD or another supported persistent researcher identifier where available and applicable to the journal workflow.

Persistent researcher identifiers can assist in distinguishing authors with similar names and connecting researchers with their scholarly outputs.

Researcher identifiers should be associated only with the individual to whom they genuinely belong.

The journal title and applicable ISSN or eISSN should be represented consistently across the journal website, article files, article metadata, DOI records, and other scholarly services where applicable.

Print and electronic identifiers should be distinguished where separate registered identifiers exist.

An ISSN identifies a serial publication and should not be represented as evidence of selective indexing or journal accreditation.

Volume, issue, page range, article number, or electronic location information should be recorded according to the publication model used by the journal.

Bibliographic identifiers should remain consistent across the article, landing page, citation information, DOI metadata, and related publication records.

Journals using article numbers rather than conventional pagination should apply their numbering system consistently.

Reference metadata should identify cited scholarly sources as accurately as practicable.

Authors are responsible for verifying references, while editors and production processes should seek to identify material bibliographic inconsistencies before publication.

Where technically supported, reference metadata may be supplied to scholarly infrastructure to strengthen citation matching and relationships among research outputs.

References must not be fabricated or manipulated to influence citation indicators, journal metrics, author profiles, or indexing evaluation.

Where technically supported, article metadata should include accurate information concerning copyright and the licence governing access and reuse.

Licence metadata should correspond with the licence displayed on the article landing page and in the published Version of Record where applicable.

Metadata should not identify an article as being distributed under a particular Open Access licence where that licence has not actually been applied.

Supplementary files formally associated with an article should be labelled and linked clearly where they form part of the publication record.

File descriptions should enable readers to understand the relationship between supplementary material and the associated article.

Supplementary metadata should not describe a file as data, software, code, or another research object where the content does not correspond with that description.

Post-publication editorial actions should be reflected appropriately in article records and metadata.

Where a correction, retraction, Expression of Concern, or other formal notice affects a published article, relevant relationships should be maintained so that readers can understand the current status of the scholarly record.

Substantive corrections should not be implemented through silent metadata replacement where a transparent post-publication record is required.

Macaw Publications journals are managed through Open Journal Systems (OJS).

Authors, editors, and publishing personnel should complete and verify relevant OJS metadata fields carefully because information entered into the publishing system may support article display, DOI registration, metadata exchange, and downstream scholarly discovery.

Technical automation does not eliminate the need for human verification of bibliographic information.

OJS metadata should be corrected when material discrepancies are identified between the publishing system and the authoritative Version of Record.

Macaw Publications supports legitimate improvement of research discoverability through accurate titles, informative abstracts, relevant keywords, persistent identifiers, structured metadata, and accessible article landing pages.

Discoverability practices should not involve deceptive keyword stuffing, false affiliations, misleading titles, manipulated citation relationships, fabricated metadata, or inaccurate indexing claims.

Scholarly accuracy takes priority over attempts to maximise search-engine traffic.

Metadata quality improves the ability of scholarly content to be identified and discovered, but does not guarantee acceptance by a selective indexing service.

Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ, and other external services determine journal inclusion independently according to their own policies and evaluation procedures.

DOI registration, search-engine visibility, repository availability, metadata distribution, or library discovery should therefore not be represented as equivalent to selective journal indexing.

Metadata maintenance continues after publication.

Where an error is identified, the journal should determine whether the matter is a metadata correction, a correction to the published scholarly record, or both.

Appropriate updates may need to be made in OJS, article landing pages, DOI metadata, published files, or other services that contain the affected information.

Material changes to authorship, results, conclusions, or other substantive article content should not be treated merely as silent metadata corrections where a formal post-publication notice is required.

Metadata and discoverability should be considered together with the wider Macaw Publications publishing framework, including:

DOI & Crossref Services; Indexing & Abstracting; Digital Preservation Policy; Open Access, Copyright & Licensing; Publication Ethics & Research Integrity; and Post-Publication Corrections & Retractions.

Journal-specific metadata enquiries

Questions concerning an article title, author name, affiliation, abstract, DOI, publication date, licence, bibliographic information, or other journal-specific metadata should normally be directed to the editorial office of the relevant journal.

Publisher-level enquiries concerning metadata standards, persistent linking, Crossref metadata, research discoverability, or correction of publisher-level metadata may be directed to:

Macaw Publications
H.No. 4-123/8/172, Road No. 1, Indraprastha Colony,
Hathiguda, Hayath Nagar, Hyderabad,
Telangana – 501505, India

Email: publisher@macawpublications.com