Google Scholar Indexing Issue After Server Downtime – OJS 3.4.0

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Describe the issue or problem
Our OJS-based journal website (https://journals.kmanpub.com/) has not been indexed by Google Scholar for over 110 days following a server shutdown. Previously, the journal’s articles were consistently appearing in Google Scholar without any issues. Despite ensuring that sitemaps are updated, meta-tags are correct, and the Google Scholar Indexing Plugin is enabled, no new publications have been indexed since the downtime.

Steps I took leading up to the issue

  1. The site experienced a server shutdown 110 days ago, lasting approximately one week, along with a few other shutdown incidents in the two months prior.
  2. Once the server was back up, I verified that the sitemaps were re-uploaded and the Google Scholar Indexing Plugin was re-enabled.
  3. Checked that Google Scholar indexing meta-tags were properly added to each article page.
  4. Confirmed that the new publications are being indexed on Google Search but not on Google Scholar.

What application are you using?
OJS 3.4.0

Additional information
I’ve also reached out to Google Scholar support but have not yet received any helpful feedback. Below are some example articles that should have been indexed:

If anyone has faced a similar issue or has suggestions on how to get articles indexed again, I would greatly appreciate your advice.

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Facing same problem for more than 6 months
After 4 years the google scholar stopped showing articles and despite all efforts as you mentioned not able to indexed again
www.bcsrj.com

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I am using latest version of OJS (OJS 3.4.0-7) for our journals (https://gassjournals.com/). But our articles are not getting indexed by Google Scholar. Please Guide us what to do

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We have similar experiences, almost all of us had our Google Scholar indexing paused around June-July 2024.

I checked the Google Scholar search of your website and as of July 1, your data is no longer included on Google Scholar. Ours started around June 25th. I have found in this forum that there is data no longer included on Google Scholar starting June 20th, June 21st.

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I also noticed that other people in the forum were experiencing similar issues around June-July. After going through the forum, I came up with two potential reasons that I think might be the cause:

  1. Google Scholar’s policy was adjusted in June/July 2024 to gradually exclude OJS users who did not comply with the policy;
  2. problems with plug-ins that interfered with Google Scholar’s indexing when OJS was upgraded with version 3.4.0.x.
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Then what do you think what is the solution because I would like to index our all journals in Google Scholar

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Your journal is now indexing with Google scholar so what you did tell us please so we will also follow same protocols to get index our journal quickly

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Hello all –

There are a lot of “me too” threads about recent Google Scholar issues, so I’ll direct them into one place and close off the other threads in order to help organize the forum.

I’ll leave this thread open:

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team