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Digital Object Identifier System

A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique, persistent alphanumeric code that identifies a scholarly work (journal article, book chapter, dataset, preprint) and persists even if the URL changes. Introduced in 1998 by Norman Paskin and the International DOI Foundation, DOIs are now standard in academic publishing. They consist of a prefix (assigned to a publisher or organization) and a suffix (assigned to an individual work), formatted as 10.XXXX/XXXXX (e.g., 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000097). DOIs are registered with international agencies (CrossRef, DataCite, mEDRA) and resolve through the centralized resolver https://doi.org/, ensuring that a DOI will direct users to the correct article regardless of whether the publisher's website changes location.

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Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.

DOI: Persistent Identifiers for Scholarly Research Objects
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / research-skills
  • Paskin, N. (2010). Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 3rd ed., 1586–1592. · ISBN 978-0-8493-9712-7
  • Crossref: The scholarly link network. https://www.crossref.org · URL
  • International Organization for Standardization (ISO). (2012). ISO 26324:2012 Information and documentation - Digital object identifier (DOI). ISO. · URL
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Related methods

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Same method familyAltmetrics and Article-Level Metricsmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyCitation Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyCitation Management Toolsmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyORCID Researcher Identifiermachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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Sources recorded, not reviewed

Bibliographic sources are present. Claim-level evidence review has not been performed.

Sources

3 recorded citations, copied from the method source record.

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