Metadata completeness — one score
Any journal by its ISSN, any DOI prefix, any Crossref member: how much of the metadata indexes read is on the record, what is missing, and who fixes it. Free, no account — every figure is Crossref's own.
SAGE Publications
Crossref member 179 · Crossref member record ↗ · Crossref participation reports ↗ · What Crossref holds about you ↗
Read from Crossref — 15 Oct 2026, 00:59. Counted over the member's journal articles, as Crossref counted them on 14 Oct 2026.
This is the record as it was kept on 15 Oct 2026 — a page of its own you can send as proof. Today's figures →
The seven signals indexes read
Of the 3,448,386 journal articles, how many carry each one. The impact numbers sum to 100 and make the score — the weighted share of what is there; a signal Crossref gave no figure for is left out of the score, never counted as 0.
| Signal | Share | Without it | What it means — and who fixes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reference lists impact 22 |
61.3% | 1,333,463 | The engine deposits the reference list of each article — this is what feeds Cited-by, OpenAlex and Scholar. Run the Reference Booster / DOI Doctor. The engine deposits it. |
| Abstracts impact 18 |
51.1% | 1,685,534 | No abstract in the record means weaker discovery everywhere. DOI Doctor reads it from the PDF and deposits it. The engine deposits it. |
| Licences impact 16 |
91.7% | 284,758 | A licence in the record is what marks the article open access and DOAJ counts it. DOI Doctor deposits the licence your article page states. The engine deposits it. |
| ORCID iDs impact 14 |
15.9% | 2,900,113 | Author ORCIDs tie the work to its authors for ORCID, funders and OpenAlex. The engine deposits them when the article page carries them; otherwise add them in OJS first. Needs the value on the page first. |
| Author affiliations impact 12 |
70.9% | 1,002,631 | A machine-readable affiliation is what gives the institution credit and lets NIRF / NAAC counts find the work. Add affiliations to the article metadata; the engine deposits them. Needs the value on the page first. |
| ROR institution ids impact 10 |
0% | 3,448,386 | A ROR id (ror.org) is the machine-readable name of the institution — the strongest institutional-credit signal there is. Add each institution's ROR to the affiliation; the engine deposits it with the affiliation. Needs the value on the page first. |
| Funder data impact 8 |
6.6% | 3,222,372 | Funder ids link the work to the grant that paid for it — read by funders and OpenAlex. Add the funder to the article metadata; the engine deposits it. Needs the value on the page first. |
Beside the score
The other elements of Crossref's participation report. They are shown here, and they are not part of the score.
| Element | Share | Without it | What it is for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Award numbers | 5.3% | 3,266,374 | The grant number beside the funder — what lets a funder find the work its grant paid for. |
| Crossmark update policy | 38.7% | 2,112,505 | Crossmark tells a reader, on the article itself, whether it has since been corrected or retracted. |
| Similarity Check URLs | 95.8% | 145,138 | A full-text link that Crossref's Similarity Check service reads, so new manuscripts can be compared against this article. |
| Text-mining URLs | 90.1% | 341,444 | A full-text link for text and data mining — how Crossref and mining services reach the article itself. |
Fix these
In the order that moves the score most — impact × how much is missing. Each is a metadata deposit at Crossref, not a re-write of any article.
- ORCID iDs — 2,900,113 without it (15.9% carry it) · needs the value on the page first
- ROR institution ids — 3,448,386 without it (0% carry it) · needs the value on the page first
- Abstracts — 1,685,534 without it (51.1% carry it) · the engine deposits it
- Reference lists — 1,333,463 without it (61.3% carry it) · the engine deposits it
- Funder data — 3,222,372 without it (6.6% carry it) · needs the value on the page first
- Author affiliations — 1,002,631 without it (70.9% carry it) · needs the value on the page first
- Licences — 284,758 without it (91.7% carry it) · the engine deposits it
DOI repair & monitoring (DOI Members): the journal is added to your portfolio, then the order for one journal, twelve months — the repairs are deposited under the journal's own Crossref login, each one read back before it counts. DOI Doctor is where a journal's owner runs the same repairs.
Every DOI, yes or no — the gap list
One row for every journal article Crossref lists for member 179, and for each element whether that record carries it.
⬇ Gap list — every DOI, yes/no per element (CSV)The same file as "What Crossref holds about you" makes: up to 5,000 records (5 requests of 1,000, Crossref's maximum per request); a member with more gets the first 5,000 as Crossref lists them, and the file says so. A finished list is kept for 6 hours; a fresh read counts as one lookup (12 an hour from one place; 60 for a signed-in account).
Before and after
First recorded 9 Oct 2026: 49 (D) → latest 16 Oct 2026: 49 (D)
| Signal | First | Latest | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reference lists | 61.3% | 61.3% | no change |
| Abstracts | 51.1% | 51.1% | no change |
| Licences | 91.7% | 91.7% | no change |
| ORCID iDs | 15.9% | 15.9% | +0.1 pts |
| Author affiliations | 70.9% | 70.9% | no change |
| ROR institution ids | 0% | 0% | no change |
| Funder data | 6.5% | 6.6% | no change |
Every record kept — one a day, the day's last reading — each a page of its own you can send as proof: 16 Oct 2026 — 49 (D) · 15 Oct 2026 — 49 (D) · 14 Oct 2026 — 49 (D) · 9 Oct 2026 — 49 (D)
What large publishers reach, read on 16 Oct 2026
Each scored exactly as any member is scored here — from its own Crossref member record, by the same seven signals and weights. Names are Crossref's own. The median of the 12 is 41.
SAGE Publications: 49 — 8 points above the large publishers' median, and 17 points above all of Crossref.
How the score is made
- Reference lists — impact 22
- Abstracts — impact 18
- Licences — impact 16
- ORCID iDs — impact 14
- Author affiliations — impact 12
- ROR institution ids — impact 10
- Funder data — impact 8
The score is the share of each signal on the record, weighted by its impact (the impacts sum to 100). A signal Crossref gives no figure for is left out and the rest are weighed as before — never counted as 0. Grade A from 85, B from 70, C from 55, D from 40, otherwise E. A journal is read off Crossref's journal record (its current and backfile DOIs, weighted by how many each holds); a prefix and all of Crossref by counting every DOI with Crossref's own has-… filters; a member off its member record, as What Crossref holds about you reads it. The members door's engagement dashboard prints the same score from the same functions.
Sources: Crossref REST API · Crossref participation reports · ROR · ORCID · doi.org. This page reads only what is public; it says what a database sees when it looks the record up — not whether a journal is well run.
