Academicus International Scientific Journal

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Academicus International Scientific Journal has been published in English since 2010. Its print ISSN is 2079-3715, and its electronic ISSN (e-ISSN) is 2309-1088. The journal is also identified by the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) 0000000509611104, assigned through the relevant registration system by the British Library.

​Academicus International Scientific Journal firmly upholds a Diamond Open Access publishing model, providing unrestricted free access to its content without charging any publication fees to authors. Building upon its foundational recognition in the landmark OA Diamond Journals Study published by Science Europe, the journal is now formally certified as a Trusted Source within the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) Registry and Diamond Discovery Hub. This institutional validation officially attests to Academicus's rigorous adherence to European standards for sustainable, non-profit scholarly publishing, reinforcing its transparency and visibility across the European Research Area.


The journal is classified as a Blue Journal in Jisc Open Policy Finder (formerly Sherpa Romeo). Its articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). Academicus International Scientific Journal uses the DOI prefix 10.7336 and benefits from mEDRA’s professional DOI infrastructure, including its DOI Resolver interface and associated metadata services, supporting the identification, resolution and accessibility of the journal’s scholarly publications.. Academicus also uses ONIX (Online Information Exchange), a standard for exchanging publication metadata.


Assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to a scholarly publication is far more than applying a passive digital label or an ephemeral web URL. At Academicus ISJ, every published manuscript is integrated into a sophisticated Metadata Resolution Architecture in partnership with mEDRA (Multilingual European DOI Registration Agency). Under our dedicated prefix structure (10.7336/academicus.year.issue.paper), each article receives an immutable, standardized identity code that permanently links the work to Academicus ISJ across the global scientific network. Unlike basic web indexing, Academicus ISJ embeds a comprehensive, high-tier metadata payload into the resolution registry, including bibliographic mapping, detailed author profiles (ORCID iDs, academic titles, affiliations, contact metadata, and biographies), abstracts, article keywords, subject classifications, publication timestamps, issue covers, and active citation indexing. When a DOI is resolved, the global system queries this dynamic metadata record, ensuring that the article is seamlessly ingested by international databases, library aggregators, and academic search engines. By establishing this high-level resolution framework, Academicus ISJ guarantees that every author’s work remains permanently citable, fully protected against broken links, and positioned within the highest tier of international scholarly visibility.


Academicus International Scientific Journal (Academicus ISJ) is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), an international organisation that promotes ethical standards, transparency and best practices in scholarly Open Access publishing. OASPA membership is granted following a rigorous assessment of an applicant’s publishing practices, editorial policies, transparency and commitment to responsible scholarly communication.

In keeping with the principles of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, adopted in November 2021, Academicus ISJ supports the international movement towards more transparent, accessible and interconnected scholarly communication. The journal participates in the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), which promotes unrestricted access to structured, machine-readable citation data, and the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA), which advocates the open availability of scholarly abstracts. These initiatives improve the discoverability of research, facilitate citation analysis and enable more comprehensive connections between scholarly publications.


Academicus International Scientific Journal (Academicus ISJ) supports the automated harvesting and exchange of article metadata through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). This protocol enables libraries, repositories and scholarly information services to collect structured bibliographic metadata, facilitating the discovery and dissemination of published research. The journal also provides metadata in standardised formats, including Dublin Core, supporting interoperability across digital repositories, library catalogues and scholarly discovery platforms.

Academicus International Scientific Journal preserves its published scholarly content through Portico, a digital preservation service, and the Epoka University Institutional Repository (DSpace). These preservation arrangements support the long-term accessibility and continuity of the journal’s scholarly record, helping safeguard published research for future access and consultation.

The editorial workflow, peer-review management, and metadata distribution of Academicus ISJ are powered by the Academicus™ Publication Management System, a proprietary software platform protected by copyright and trademark rights. The system has been designed, developed, and maintained in-house by the journal’s team, with contributions from students through voluntary academic collaboration.

Developed as an independent technological solution, the platform supports the automated collection, structuring, and distribution of scholarly article metadata through XML and formats compatible with the requirements of relevant scholarly services, including CrossRef, Doaj, Ebsco, and RePEc. It also supports the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), providing dedicated Dublin Core metadata exports for every article in each issue. These features enable institutional repositories, metadata harvesters, and international library services to retrieve structured metadata directly from the journal’s platform.

Academicus ISJ is an independently published, non-profit scholarly journal issued twice a year. Its economic model combines revenue from the sale of print copies and electronic editions with voluntary academic collaboration and arrangements that help contain publication and distribution costs. Copies are also distributed free of charge to students, scholars, universities, and libraries.

The journal does not charge authors publication fees. Its publishing model is designed to preserve editorial independence, allowing manuscripts to be evaluated and publication decisions to be made on the basis of scientific merit rather than commercial or financial considerations. Revenue from the sale of print and electronic editions contributes to the journal’s financial sustainability, while the combination of voluntary work, controlled costs, and independent management supports the continuation of its publishing activities.

The hard copies of Academicus ISJ are held by libraries and academic institutions in Albania, including the National Library of Albania in Tirana, the Vlora City Library, the Library of the Academy of Sciences of Albania, and the library of the Ministry of Education. The journal is also catalogued by the British Library, including its print editions and the special issue "Essays on Culture, Politics and Power", featuring essays by the sociologist Franco Ferrarotti.

Academicus ISJ is discoverable through WorldCat, the global library catalogue supported by OCLC, which connects bibliographic records from libraries and institutions around the world.


The journal makes its articles available through its Open Access publishing platform and is discoverable through international scholarly databases, repositories, and academic information services, and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), OpenAire, RePEc (Research Papers in Economics), Scilit, ScienceOpen, Ingenta, Cejsh, Econis (Catalogue of the ZBW - German National Library of Economics)

The journal is also covered by subscription-based and specialist academic services, including EBSCOhost, (Sociology Source Ultimate, SocIndex,Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS), and Humanities Full Text) ProQuest (Social Science Database, Sociology Collection, Political Science Database, and Research Library), the Central and Eastern Europe Online Library (CEEOL), and the MLA International Bibliography, subject to the coverage and access arrangements of each service.

Academicus ISJ is represented in a range of national scholarly evaluation systems, research registers, and academic information resources. These include relevant ANVUR lists in Italy ( Area 13 and Area 14) and Spanish scholarly information and evaluation resources such as Carhus +, MIAR, CIRC Clasificacion. The journal is also represented in relevant Norwegian  NSD (Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills) and Finnish scholarly registers and classification systems (Julkaisufoorumi). The specific status and classification depend on the criteria and current records of each system.Furthermore, the journal is officially indexed in Mir@bel, a European network tracking and certifying open access policies and editorial standards.

The journal is discoverable through national and international library catalogues and scholarly information networks, including SLSP Swisscovery in Switzerland, Jisc Library Hub Discoverr in the United Kingdom, the German Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB) and Electronic Journals Library (EZB), BASE, France’s SUDOC ABES network, the Royal Danish Library catalogue KGL Bibliotek, Sweden’s LIBRIS, and Poland’s  Biblioteka Nauki.

Academicus ISJ supports the discovery and monitoring of the scholarly impact of its published articles through citation services and research-information platforms, including Google Scholar, Crossref Cited-by, Dimensions, and RePEc’s Citec service, where applicable. These services provide complementary information on citation activity and the dissemination of scholarly publications.

The journal also uses PlumX and Altmetric, where available, to provide complementary indicators of research attention and online engagement. These indicators are distinct from citation counts and should be interpreted according to the methodology of each service.

The Academicus Publication Management System incorporates a Direct Citation function for individual articles, facilitating access to article-level citation information and supporting the visibility and traceability of scholarly references.

Academicus International Scientific Journal has also been referenced in materials and research initiatives associated with international organisations, including UNESCO and UNDP, as well as in academic contexts relating to the Balkans and South and Central Europe.




Academicus
International Scientific Journal

pISSN 2079-3715
eISSN 2309-1088

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