The Medical and Pharmaceutical Health Research Journal (MPHRJ) is committed to maintaining accurate, complete, consistent, and accessible bibliographic metadata for all published articles.
Where applicable, each article's metadata should include:
Full article title.
Complete names of all authors in the correct order.
Institutional affiliations of the authors.
Corresponding author's contact information.
ORCID identifiers, when provided and verified.
Abstract and keywords.
Article type.
Publication dates, including submission, revision, acceptance, and publication dates, where applicable.
Journal title, publication year, volume, issue, and page range or article number, as applicable.
DOI, if assigned.
Funding information and declarations of competing interests.
Research ethics approval and informed consent statements, where applicable.
Data availability statements, where applicable.
References and relevant supplementary materials.
The journal aims to ensure that article metadata is consistent across the article landing page, full-text file, issue contents, journal archive, and relevant metadata registration or distribution services.
Article titles, abstracts, and keywords should accurately reflect the content, objectives, methods, results, and conclusions of the published research.
Abstracts must be understandable as standalone summaries and should follow the journal's manuscript preparation requirements for the relevant article type. Where structured abstracts are required, the prescribed headings should be used.
Keywords should be relevant to the subject of the article and support accurate retrieval through scholarly search systems. Authors are responsible for submitting accurate article information, and the editorial team may request corrections when necessary.
The title, author list, abstract, and other bibliographic details displayed on the journal website should correspond to the final published version.
Where a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is assigned to an article, the journal will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the DOI is accurately displayed, registered with the relevant registration agency, and linked to the article's official landing page.
DOIs must not be fabricated, reused incorrectly, or displayed as active identifiers before assignment and registration are completed.
The journal will maintain the associated article landing page and update DOI metadata when necessary, including when bibliographic corrections are made. A DOI identifies a digital object but does not, by itself, guarantee permanent preservation or inclusion in any indexing database.
The journal will clearly identify the access conditions applicable to its published content.
For articles published under an open-access model, the full text should be accessible through the article's official landing page without unnecessary access barriers, in accordance with the journal's stated open-access and licensing policies.
Where available, articles may be provided in PDF and/or HTML formats. Full-text files should be complete, readable, and consistent with the final published version. PDF files should, where practicable, contain searchable text rather than image-only scans.
Article landing pages should provide sufficient information for readers to identify, cite, and access the article, including its title, authors, abstract, publication details, DOI if assigned, and full-text link.
Any supplementary files should be clearly associated with the relevant article and described accurately.
MPHRJ aims to provide structured and machine-readable bibliographic information to support the discovery, citation, and retrieval of its published content.
Where technically available and applicable, the journal may use standardized metadata formats and deposit article metadata with relevant registration agencies or scholarly discovery services.
Metadata submitted to external services should accurately reflect the published record. The journal will correct material metadata errors when identified and will update relevant records where the applicable systems permit.
The availability of metadata to external services does not imply acceptance, indexing, or endorsement by any particular bibliographic database.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their names, affiliations, contact details, author contributions, and other submitted information are accurate.
The journal will not knowingly publish fabricated author identities, affiliations, ORCID identifiers, or institutional credentials. ORCID identifiers should be included only when they have been supplied by the relevant author and appropriately verified.
Funding, competing interests, ethics approval, informed consent, clinical trial registration, and data availability information should be provided whenever required by the journal's policies or applicable research standards.
The journal may request clarification or correction of incomplete or inconsistent information before or after publication.
If an error is identified in an article's metadata or published record, the journal will assess the nature and significance of the error and take appropriate action.
Minor bibliographic errors may be corrected directly when consistent with the journal's correction procedures. Substantive changes affecting the scientific record will be handled in accordance with the journal's Corrections, Retractions, and Editorial Expressions of Concern Policy.
Where appropriate, the journal will update the article landing page, full-text files, DOI metadata, and other affected records while maintaining a transparent record of significant changes.
The journal aims to make its online content usable across common devices and assistive technologies. Where practicable, article pages and files should use clear headings, readable text, descriptive links, and accessible figure descriptions.
The journal will make reasonable efforts to maintain stable article URLs and ensure that links to full texts, supplementary materials, and associated metadata function correctly.
Authors are responsible for submitting accurate manuscript and author information and reviewing the final proofs when proof review is provided.
Editors and journal staff are responsible for checking the completeness and consistency of article metadata as part of the publication workflow.
The publisher or journal's designated technical team is responsible for maintaining article landing pages, publication files, DOI links where applicable, and metadata updates within the scope of its technical and contractual arrangements.
This policy should be read together with the journal's Publication Ethics, Open Access and Licensing, Digital Preservation and Archiving, and Corrections and Retractions policies.
