Indexing and Abstracting

CABI / CAB Abstracts

Indexed in CAB Abstracts and Global Health, ensuring systematic indexing across applied life sciences, agriculture, and public health.

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

Evaluated and accepted for indexing in the DOAJ, verifying strict standards for open-access transparency, copyright retention, and editorial review (https://doaj.org/toc/2588-1582).

Adding NAJFNR to the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) serves several essential strategic, reputational, and technical purposes for an open-access journal:

• Legitimacy & Quality Standard: Serves as a primary whitelist for trusted, peer-reviewed Open Access (OA) journals, protecting NAJFNR from predatory labels and fulfilling a prerequisite for higher-tier indexation.
• Global Metadata & Library Discovery: Automatically ingests article-level XML metadata into major discovery platforms (EBSCO, Ex Libris, WorldCat, ProQuest, Google Scholar) and university library catalogs worldwide, optimizing crawlability.
• Funder & Plan S Compliance: Aligns NAJFNR with international research funder mandates (e.g., cOAlition S / Plan S), making authors eligible for institutional APC grants and funding.
• Standardized Licensing & Copyright: Ensures clear Creative Commons licensing and unrestrictive author copyright retention, a strict requirement for many international institutions.
• Higher Submissions & Citation Reach: Attracts quality submissions from researchers seeking vetted OA journals while boosting full-text downloads, visibility, and citation rates.

FAO - AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology)

Indexing NAJFNR in AGRIS, maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, aligns the journal with global agri-food systems and international development:

• Targeted Agri-Food & Nutrition Focus: Positions NAJFNR at the critical intersection of primary food production, food composition, post-harvest handling, and human health within the premier database for agricultural and nutritional sciences.
• Semantic Search via AGROVOC: Utilizes the FAO’s multilingual thesaurus (AGROVOC in over 40 languages) to standardize article indexing for regional staples (e.g., dates, durum wheat, olive oil, camel milk) and overcome localized terminology barriers.
• Direct Policy & UN Agency Impact: Reaches development practitioners and technical staff across UN bodies (FAO, WFP, IFAD, CGIAR), ensuring regional data informs international food composition tables and Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) policies.
• Linked Open Data (LOD) & Open Science: Integrates metadata into global semantic web networks via OAI-PMH and RDF standards, ensuring interoperability, broad institutional repository harvesting, and long-term digital preservation.
• Bridging the Global South Research Divide: Amplifies non-commercial and developing-region scholarship, ensuring North African food analysis and dietary surveys contribute directly to global food system governance.

SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR)

Listing NAJFNR on the SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) serves as a vital public benchmark of academic prestige and international reach:

• Official Quartile Rankings (Q1–Q4): Categorizes NAJFNR into subject quartiles (e.g., Food Science, Nutrition & Dietetics), providing the universal benchmark required by university councils for doctoral defenses, faculty promotions, and grant eligibility.
• Paywall-Free Bibliometric Access: Offers 100% free, public visibility without requiring an expensive Scopus subscription, allowing authors, department heads, and evaluators worldwide to instantly verify the journal's indexing and metrics.
• Prestige-Weighted Impact (SJR Indicator): Applies PageRank-based algorithms to weight citations based on the prestige of the citing journal, measuring NAJFNR's objective structural impact within the global scientific network.
• Transparent Editorial Analytics: Displays multi-year dashboards of core health metrics—including the journal H-index, international collaboration ratios, citable document counts, and 2- to 4-year citation velocity.
• Elevating National & Regional Prestige: Contributes directly to Algeria's and North Africa's aggregated SCImago Country Rank in agricultural, biological, and health sciences, showcasing regional research on an authoritative global stage.

AJOL (African Journals Online)

Indexing NAJFNR in African Journals OnLine (AJOL) strengthens its regional leadership, quality benchmarks, and policy impact across the continent:

• Pan-African Leadership & Scientific Exchange: Embeds NAJFNR within the world’s largest library of African research, bridging North and Sub-Saharan Africa to foster South-South collaboration on shared food security and malnutrition challenges.
• JPPS Star-Level Accreditation: Assesses the journal under the Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS) framework, providing external, globally recognized validation of editorial transparency and peer-review integrity.
• Targeted Continental Discovery: Reaches researchers and policy-makers across Africa while syndicating metadata to global aggregators (WorldCat, Crossref, Google Scholar) for multi-channel article visibility.
• Direct Public Health Policy Support: Provides localized, empirical evidence on indigenous dietary patterns and regional epidemiology to international organizations operating in Africa (African Union, WHO AFRO, FAO Africa, UNICEF).
• Scholarly Sovereignty & Countering Bias: Elevates African-led editorial governance, countering the historical underrepresentation of continental research in commercial Western databases while supporting open-access infrastructure.

DOI Implementation (CrossRef)

Registered with CrossRef, depositing unique Digital Object Identifiers (DOI prefix: 10.51745/najfnr) for all published original research, reviews, and short communications.

Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals (MIAR)

Adding NAJFNR to the MIAR (Matriu d'Informació per a l'Avaluació de Revistes / Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals) database serves several key strategic, visibility, and evaluation purposes:

• Calculation of the ICDS (Secondary Index of Diffusion)
• Visibility Among Academic Evaluation Committees (Spain, Latin America & Francophone Systems)
• Reassuring Authors Against Predatory Practices
• Enhancing Institutional Library Discovery

African Index Medicus (AIM / WHO)

Indexed in the World Health Organization’s African Index Medicus (AIM) to increase discoverability across African biomedical and clinical literature.

ASJP (Algerian Scientific Journals Platform - DGRSDT / MESRS)

Hosting NAJFNR on the Algerian Scientific Journal Platform (ASJP), maintained by CERIST under the MESRS, fulfills fundamental national and regional objectives:

• Official Institutional Recognition & Categorization: Serves as the official gateway for DGRSDT journal classification (Categories A, B, C) and formally certifies NAJFNR articles for doctoral defenses, habilitations, and faculty promotions across Algerian universities.
• Central Domestic Reach & National Archiving: Functions as the primary reference portal for Algerian researchers and students, providing barrier-free access and long-term national repository archiving for regional food science and public health research.
• Compliance with MESRS Editorial Standards: Demonstrates adherence to national regulatory guidelines on periodicity, peer-review tracking, and publication ethics, laying the necessary groundwork for national category upgrades toward international indexing.
• Maghreb Visibility & Regional Impact: Enhances discoverability across Tunisia, Morocco, and Mauritania, centralizing accessible data on North African dietary patterns, local food composition, and regional epidemiological trends.
• Standardized Metadata & OJS Architecture: Leverages CERIST's integrated Open Journal Systems (OJS) infrastructure and OAI-PMH harvesting standards to ensure seamless national metadata interoperability and long-term digital preservation.

Google Scholar

Indexing NAJFNR in Google Scholar provides the universal foundation for visibility, citation tracking, and technical compatibility:

• Maximized Discovery & Readership: Serves as the primary search engine for global researchers, offering direct one-click [PDF] access to full-text articles that drive immediate site traffic.
• Comprehensive Citation Capture: Tracks citations across a broader range of scholarly sources—including theses, dissertations, preprints, and regional journals—with dynamic “Cited by” links.
• Author Career & Profile Support: Automatically syncs published papers to authors' public Google Scholar profiles to boost their h-index and citation metrics, incentivizing future submissions.
• Eligibility for h5-Index Rankings: Qualifies NAJFNR for annual Google Scholar Journal Metrics (h5-index and h5-median) to benchmark cumulative 5-year impact within food science and nutrition subcategories.
• Technical & OJS Synergy: Leverages native Open Journal Systems (OJS) metadata tags (citation_pdf_url, citation_author) to ensure the journal’s architecture meets international machine-readable standards.

Foundation & International Identifiers

• Launch & ISSN Allocation: Established in 2017 as a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal focusing on food sciences, clinical nutrition, and public health in North Africa and globally.
• ISSN: Awarded, in 2017, the official electronic identifier e-ISSN: 2588-1582.