Journal of Family Medicine · ISSN 2640-690X
Indexing and Discoverability
Where Journal of Family Medicine is registered, how its articles are identified and discovered, and how the published record is preserved.
Identifiers, discovery services, journal-level indexing and preservation each serve a distinct purpose for librarians, funders and assessment committees, and each is listed under its own heading.
Identifiers
Registration and identification
Registration gives the journal and each registered article a permanent, citable identity in library and bibliographic systems.
- ISSN register
- ISSN 2640-690X The International Standard Serial Number identifies this title in library and bibliographic systems. ISSN Portal record
- Crossref
- Crossref member title Article DOIs and metadata are deposited with Crossref so that citations resolve to the published version. Crossref record for this ISSN
- ORCID
- Author and editor identifiers are displayed where they are recorded An ORCID iD distinguishes a researcher from others with a similar name and connects their record across services.
Discovery
How articles are found
Discovery services collect open metadata and full text so that readers can find the journal’s articles; each service sets its own coverage and schedule.
OpenAlex
The journal has a source record in OpenAlex, the open scholarly index, under its ISSN-L 2640-690X and the publisher name Open Access Pub. Articles deposited with Crossref appear there. OpenAlex source record
Metadata for search engines
Every article page publishes its bibliographic metadata in the tag set academic search engines read, including the journal title, ISSN, authors and their institutions, publication date, volume, issue, page range, DOI and a direct link to the PDF.
Open full text
Every article is openly available on publication in HTML and PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which makes it readable by anyone who finds it and reusable by aggregators with attribution.
Discovery and selective indexing
Discovery records show that an article exists and where it can be read. Selective indexing, in which a database assesses a journal against its own published criteria, is listed in the next section.
Selective indexing
Verified journal-level indexing
Status last checked September 14, 2026.
The journal’s confirmed registrations and deposits are the ISSN register, Crossref DOI registration, the OpenAlex source record and Portico preservation.
Selective databases assess journals against their own published criteria and schedules. Journal-level listings and journal metrics are added to this section, with the date of confirmation, when the issuing service confirms them.
Preservation and repositories
Keeping the record available
Preservation keeps the published record readable over the long term, independently of any single platform.
Digital preservation
This journal’s content is committed to Portico, a not-for-profit digital-preservation archive run by ITHAKA (the organization behind JSTOR). As articles are deposited they enter Portico’s permanent archive, so the scholarly record stays available for the long term — even if a title one day ceases to publish.
Deposit in PubMed Central
Eligible NIH-funded manuscripts may be deposited individually in PubMed Central through the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS).
Self-archiving
Because articles are published under CC BY 4.0 with copyright retained by the authors, an author may deposit the published article in an institutional or subject repository, provided the original is attributed. Data archiving and permissions
Publication records
Why the distinctions matter
Authors choosing where to publish, and committees assessing a publication record, look for evaluation by a body that applies published criteria. Identifiers, discovery records and selective indexing each answer part of that question, and each is listed here by name.
Updates to any listing are welcome at [email protected].