Google Scholar Indexing Issue

Software Support
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In this case, there is only one solution. It is to specify in the code, meta tags, or somewhere else that this is not a journal, but a repository.

I draw a parallel with EPrints or DSpace.

All our articles uploaded to the platform where the EPrints repository is installed have been in Google Scholar for years.

Now we need to think about how to do this.

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Hi @Oleksandr_Radkevych,

Do I get it right that you have a parallel repository in EPrints that contains the same content as in OJS, and gets indexed in Scholar from there?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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The EPrints repository does not belong to our organization. It operates for many institutions. We are simply required to submit our articles, monographs, theses, etc., there.

Hereā€™s the thing: if you submit an article, monograph, thesis, etc., it will appear in Google Scholar, but the journalā€™s website does not recognize it in any way.

After writing the post, I visited a Scopus Q2, Web of Science journal: https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/ijrvet/article/view/1394

This journal is also missing from Google Scholar

But, to my surprise, I found an article from it: https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/ijrvet/article/view/1394

Here: Google ŠŠŗŠ°Š“ŠµŠ¼Ń–я

And when we go to the site, itā€™s EPrint.
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/274930/

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Hi @Oleksandr_Radkevych, @asmecher, @kmccurley,

our experience is different:
Google Scholar coverage of our journal platform is near 100%. Even articles that have no citations and even very young journals. So I donā€™t think citations are the quality indicator GS takes.
Google Scholar coverage of our EPrints repository stagnates at about 30%, although we have tried many different measures to improve that ratio.
I agree with @openaccessjournals that there might be some quality algorithm by GS that works on content. I see this especially for one journal that has mixed content: scientific content is being indexed very quickly, community content is not (which is correct in my opinion).

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New journals are indexing normally. But after sometime same indexing problem with the new journals also.