The ICME Journal of Laboratory Medicine is committed to enhancing the global visibility, discoverability, accessibility, and citation of its published research. The journal seeks to facilitate reliable retrieval and long-term access through appropriate discovery services, digital preservation practices, and standardized bibliographic metadata.
ICME Journal of Laboratory Medicine aims to align its publishing practices with the transparency principles reflected in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) criteria and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Core Practices. The journal uses persistent identifiers, structured bibliographic metadata, and open access licensing to support wider discovery, access, and responsible reuse of published medical research.
ICME Journal of Laboratory Medicine supports the discovery, registration, and preservation of published content through the following services and systems:
Authors are encouraged to provide validated ORCID iDs to improve author identification, accurate citation, and cross-platform attribution.
Discovery services and standardized metadata help clinicians, researchers, librarians, and policymakers locate and cite relevant biomedical research. Structured metadata can also support interoperability, responsible text and data mining where permitted, and broader scholarly visibility.
ICME Journal of Laboratory Medicine intends to seek inclusion in major international scholarly directories, repositories, and citation databases, including DOAJ, PubMed Central (PMC), Scopus, and Web of Science, as the journal becomes eligible and meets the technical, editorial, and publishing requirements of each service.