Essentials of Abstracting and Indexing for Research Paper Writing

"One of the earliest forms of recording human experiences on earth has been through rock paintings found in most parts of the world" (National Research Council 1986). Indexing and abstracting are very much encouraging words for authors, editors, reviewers, publishers, and all the stakeholders in the research domain. It showcases different aspects of researched information in a way how it is stored, searched, found, measured, and cited so on. These index methods are used for quality assessment of the journals and articles. Web of Science of Clarivate Analytics, Scopus of Elsevier, EBSCOhost (Elton B. Stephens Company), ProQuest, and many more are the organizations taking care of Abstracting and Indexing databases processes. In this paper the authors give the overall idea of Journal Indexing and rules to get indexed, ethical practices, peer-review types and processes, different research metrics, about COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), A case study on Scopus, types of indexes, and citation indexing. Finally, a comparison of Journal indexing for two indexing agencies is analyzed.