Editorial Board Transparency: What Readers Should Verify
An editorial board communicates responsibility and expertise; it should never be used as decoration.
An editorial board communicates responsibility and expertise; it should never be used as decoration.
A detailed editorial guide to titles, contributors, dates, DOI URLs, licences, relations and Crossref quality control.
A practical guide to testing OAI-PMH endpoints, records, identifiers, updates and editorial maintenance.
A complete practical checklist for journal identity, governance, ethics, terms, archives and metadata readiness.
Understand the different roles of ISSN, DOI, indexing, directory records, rankings and accreditation.

Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih BozdemirORCID: 0000-0002-2136-5653 Introduction Metadata has become one of the most important components of modern scholarly publishing. While readers often focus on article content, researchers, libraries, search engines and indexing systems depend heavily on metadata to identify,…