Indexing your journal in Scopus

Prior verification

Check if your journal is not already indexed in Scopus: list of journals.

Selection criteria

Criteria required for assessment

To be considered as a journal, the document must meet at least the following criteria:

• the journal is reviewed by a reading committee and must render the detailed review process accessible to peers.
• publication must be regular
• publication is identified by an ISSN
• the journal must offer content that is “relevant and understandable by an international audience”, and headings and abstracts must be written in Roman script.
• the journal must make public any ethics statement and misconduct in publication practices.

Quality assessment of the review

The journals are then evaluated according to 5 criteria:

• Editorial policy
• Content
• Prestige of the journal
• Regularity of publication
• Online visibility

Application form

To submit a journal for indexing on Scopus, the online form must be returned.

In case of refusal

Possibility to reapply.