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Cureus is archived in PubMed Central, a free digital repository that archives open access full-text scholarly articles that have been published in biomedical and life sciences journals. As one of the major research databases developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, PubMed Central is more than a document repository.

Cureus employs the use of ORCID. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher. The ORCID is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication as well as ORCID's website and services to look up authors and their bibliographic output. We encourage our users to include their ORCID in their author profile.

Cureus is indexed in Web of Science*. Web of Science is a website that provides subscription-based access to multiple databases that provide comprehensive citation data for many different academic disciplines. It was originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information and is currently maintained by Clarivate Analytics.

*Cureus indexing in Web of Science is currently on hold pending re-evaluation.

Crossref is the official DOI® link registration agency for scholarly and professional publications. Cureus is a member of Crossref and we coin all peer-reviewed article DOIs through them. The DOI links ensure that there are persistent identifiers to articles published with us.

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Center for Open Science was established with a mission to "increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research." Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. The "TOP" guidelines aim to promote an open research culture. Journals are evaluated based on the degree to which they comply with the TOP Guidelines. This TOP Factor is a metric that reports the steps that a journal is taking to implement open science practices, practices that are based on the core principles of the scientific community. It is an alternative way to assess journal qualities, and is an improvement over traditional metrics that measure mean citation rates.

Cureus upholds the highest ethical standards as a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). COPE provides education and support to editors, publishers, institutions and all parties involved in publication ethics. By influencing through education and resources, COPE aims to normalize ethical practices in academic publishing. Their approach focuses on empowering members, facilitating professional discourse, and nurturing an ethical culture.

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