POSI - Panorama Scholarly Index

Data Sources

POSI aggregates metadata from multiple open scholarly infrastructure providers. Source identifiers and provenance are preserved wherever available. Third-party metadata remains attributed to its original source.

POSI's primary focus is journal-level metadata and policy evidence. Article-level metadata is used as supporting evidence for DOI coverage checks, metadata completeness assessments, publication activity, and citation visibility analysis — not as an end in itself. External metadata records are automatically discovered from open scholarly infrastructure and are not equivalent to POSI Verified Journal Records.

23,827

Journal Records

18,708,634

DOI Records

23,792

DOAJ-listed Records

2026-08-17

Last Sync

Source Status Overview

SourceTypePrimary UseStatusLast Sync
POSI CoreInternalJournal records, PQF assessments, policy evidencePrimary2026-08-17
DOAJExternal OAJournal verification, OA status, license dataIntegrated2026-08-17
CrossrefExternalDOI records, article metadata, reference listsLiveReal-time
OpenAlexExternalCitation visibility, source matching, author IDsLiveReal-time
OAI-PMHHarvestDiscontinued — replaced by Crossref + OpenAlexDiscontinued
RORExternalInstitution identifier resolutionIntegratedPeriodic
ORCIDExternalAuthor identifier linkingIntegratedReal-time
OpenCitationsExternalOpen citation links and cited-by countsLiveReal-time
ZenodoExternalRelated datasets/software linked to POSI articlesLiveReal-time

Open Data Principle

POSI only aggregates data from openly licensed sources. All data displayed on this platform is attributed to its original source. No proprietary or paywalled data is used. Where data is sourced from multiple providers, conflicts are flagged and provenance is shown.

POSI

POSI Core

Primary

Primary editorial and journal-level metadata from Panorama Scholarly Group journals

Journal recordsPQF evaluationsTechnical discoverability assessmentsMetadata quality scoring

Update Frequency

Manual (editorial cycle)

License / Terms

CC BY 4.0

Crossref

Crossref

DOI registration, article-level metadata, reference lists, and publisher verification

DOI recordsArticle metadataReference listsPublisher dataJournal ISSN registry

Update Frequency

Real-time (API)

License / Terms

CC0 1.0

OA

OpenAlex

Open scholarly knowledge graph for citation visibility, author disambiguation, and institution records

Citation countsAuthor recordsInstitution affiliationsConcept taggingSource IDs

Update Frequency

Real-time (API)

License / Terms

CC0 1.0

OCI

OpenCitations

Open citation dataset providing attributed citation links between scholarly works

Citation linksCited-by countsReference resolution

Update Frequency

Real-time (API)

License / Terms

CC0 1.0

DOAJ

DOAJ

Integrateddoaj.org

Directory of Open Access Journals for OA verification, license data, and journal indexing status

OA status (external reference only)License typeArticle-level records

Update Frequency

Periodic (API)

License / Terms

CC BY-SA

OAI

OAI-PMH

Formerly used for per-journal article harvesting from OJS platforms; discontinued in favor of Crossref (DOI registry) and OpenAlex, which proved more reliable at build time

Article recordsTitle/author dataAbstractPublication dates

Update Frequency

Discontinued

License / Terms

Varies per journal

ROR

ROR

Integratedror.org

Research Organization Registry for institutional identifier resolution and affiliation disambiguation

Institution identifiersCountry dataOrganization names

Update Frequency

Periodic (API)

License / Terms

CC0 1.0

ORCID

ORCID

Integratedorcid.org

Open Researcher and Contributor ID for author disambiguation and profile linking

Author identifiersPublic work recordsAffiliation data

Update Frequency

Real-time (API)

License / Terms

CC0 1.0

ZEN

Zenodo

Open research repository used to surface datasets/software explicitly linked to a POSI article via related-identifier metadata

Related datasetsRelated softwareSupplementary evidence — not counted toward citation stats

Update Frequency

Real-time (API)

License / Terms

Varies per deposit

Data Provenance Disclaimer

POSI preserves source identifiers and provenance information whenever available. Third-party metadata remains attributed to its original source. POSI does not claim ownership of external data and is not responsible for errors in third-party records. If you identify a data quality issue, contact the respective data provider.