Requirmennt to get your journal to be published and indexed on Scopus

1. Requirements to be indexed on
good indexing services

2. Journal Website
Following information must be available on the journal website.
 Aims and scope
 Instructions for authors
 Charges even (if it is zero)
 Open access, licensing and copyright policy
 Contact details
 Editorial Board

3. Open Access Policy Statement
University of Wah Journal of science and Technology (UWJST) is an open-access journal.
Open-access means content is freely available without charge to the user or institution.
Users are allowed to read, download, distribute, print, search, link to the full texts of the
articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose without asking prior permission from the
publisher or the author.
UWJST is committed to promote the global knowledge exchange through free research
available to the public. Therefore, it provides open access to all the published contents
immediately. Full text of the articles are made available in the Archives section of the
official website.

4. copyright policy
Author retain the copyrights and will grant the University of Wah Journal of science and
Technology (UWJST) with non-exclusive rights of first publication of the manuscript
electronically and in print form and to identify UWJST as the original publisher
under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. It will allow others to
share the contents with an explicit indication of the authorship and its initial publication in
UWJST. Under these licensing terms, the authors confirm that all the contents of the
published manuscript will be distributed in the public domain and other researchers may
use it exclusively for any scientific purpose with the obligatory acknowledgment of
authorship.

5. licensing
University of Wah Journal of science and Technology (UWJST) uses Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0 International License to protect the author’s work from
misuse. Under this license, the author’s published in UWJST retain the copyright and
publishing rights of their scholarly work. All other authors using the content of UWJST
are required to cite the names of the author(s) as well as of the journal in their work.
Articles of UWJST can be read and shared for purposes under the following condition:
BY: Attribution must be given to the source (Attribution)

7. Essential Information on Journal
Homepage
 Editor / Editor in Chief/ Editorial Boards and/or International Advisory Board members.
 Author guidelines.
 Peer-review process publishing ethics guidelines. The publishing ethics guidelines
should make it clear what.
 Action the Editor or Editorial Board will take if any malpractice is suspected.
 (if relevant) Clear information about criteria and costs of Open Access options.
 How potential readers can get access to the full-text articles published in the journal.
 The role and organization of the publisher of the journal.

8. Minimum Criteria for indexing
 Two Years condition (Minimum 2 years old journal)
 Journal has a unique title, not identical to one we already index in Scopus
 Journal should be peer reviewed.
 Abstracts, titles and keywords are in English.
 References are presented.
 Journal is published regularly and per publishing schedule, which available at
journal's website.
 Ethics and malpractice statement is available in English at journal's website
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9. Selection Criteria Stage
 Journal Policy.
 Convincing editorial concept / policy.
 Type of peer review.
 Diversity geographic distribution of editors. Who are they? Where are they from?
 Diversity geographic distribution of authors. Where are they from?
 Journal Standing.
 Citedness of journal articles in Scopus.

10. continue
 Editor Standing. Papers in Scopus,
 Citations. (Cite score)
 Quality of content (h-index) (plum index) (impact factor)
 Academic contribution to the field. What is the content about?
 Clarity of abstract. Language quality? Content quality?
 Quality and conformity with stated aims and scopes.
 Readability of articles. Language? Formatting?