Is it save to change the journal initials of a journal with already published issues? The background of the question is that we would like to change the initials in brackets in the system emails.Are there any other places where the initials are used?
If you assign Digital Object Identifiers to any items in the journal and use the journal initials in formulating DOIs, changing the initials may be a concern for you. Any DOIs generated by the system moving forward will have the new initials. Also, if you ever select the “reassign DOIs” button, that will change all off the old DOIs to the new initials, therefore making the older DOIs incorrect.
thanks for your replies. But fortunately we don’t use the journal initials as part of the DOI. But good to know for others facing the same idea of changing the initials.
Hi,
i work on journal and need now to change Journal initials in Journal Settings, but i see the Journal initials part of the address, can you change without and loss
i mean the Journal initials that can reach from setting → journal setting–>Journal initials