Journal of Family Medicine · ISSN 2640-690X
Indexing and Discoverability
Where this journal is registered, how its articles are identified and found, and how the record is preserved. Each entry below names what the service actually does.
Six different things are often called “indexing”. They are kept apart on this page, because they carry very different weight when a librarian, a funder or a promotion committee looks at where you published.
Identifiers
Registration and identification
Registration establishes that a title and an article exist, and gives each a permanent name. It is not an assessment of quality, and no registry below evaluates the journal.
- ISSN register
- ISSN 2640-690X The International Standard Serial Number identifies this title in library and bibliographic systems. ISSN Portal record
- Crossref
- A DOI is registered for each published article The journal is a Crossref member title, and each article’s DOI and metadata are deposited so that citations resolve permanently. Crossref record for this ISSN
- ORCID
- Author and editor identifiers are displayed where they are recorded An ORCID iD distinguishes a researcher from others with a similar name. Displaying one is not a form of indexing.
Discovery
How articles are found
Discovery services gather content by crawling and by reading open metadata. They aggregate rather than evaluate, and each decides its own coverage and timetable.
OpenAlex
The journal has a source record in OpenAlex, the open scholarly index, under its ISSN-L 2640-690X and the publisher name Open Access Pub. Articles deposited with Crossref appear there. OpenAlex source record
Metadata for search engines
Every article page publishes its bibliographic metadata in the tag set academic search engines read, including the journal title, ISSN, authors and their institutions, publication date, volume, issue, page range, DOI and a direct link to the PDF. Whether any given service includes an article, and how quickly, is that service’s decision.
Open full text
Every article is openly available on publication in HTML and PDF, with no subscription, registration or embargo, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Open availability is what makes an article reusable by aggregators and readable by anyone who finds it.
What discovery does not establish
Appearing in an aggregator, holding a DOI or being registered with the ISSN register are all statements that an article exists and can be found. Selective indexing, where a database assesses a journal against its own criteria before admitting it, is a separate thing, treated below.
Selective indexing
Verified journal-level indexing
Status last checked September 14, 2026.
The journal’s confirmed journal-level registrations and deposits are the ones named on this page: the ISSN register, Crossref DOI registration, the OpenAlex source record, and Portico preservation. Databases that select journals do so against their own published criteria and on their own timetable; where this journal is admitted to one, it will be named in this section with the date its status was confirmed.
No impact factor, ranking or citation metric is published for this journal, and readers should treat any figure of that kind attributed to it elsewhere as unverified.
Preservation and repositories
Keeping the record available
Preservation answers a different question from discovery: whether the article will still be readable in twenty years, whoever is publishing it then.
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.
Deposit in PubMed Central
Eligible NIH-funded manuscripts may be deposited individually in PubMed Central through the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS).
Self-archiving
Because articles are published under CC BY 4.0 with copyright retained by the authors, an author may deposit the published article in an institutional or subject repository, provided the original is attributed. Data archiving and permissions
Reading this page
Why the distinctions matter
An author choosing where to publish, and a committee assessing where someone has published, are asking whether a journal has been evaluated by a body that applies criteria. A DOI, an ISSN and an aggregator record do not answer that question, and this page does not present them as though they do.
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