Publishing & Research Integrity
Empowering universities, scholarly societies, and academic publishers with Open Journal Systems (OJS), streamlined peer-review workflows, DOI assignment, and advanced plagiarism and research integrity verification tools.
Elevating Regional Journals into Internationally Indexed Outlets
For Arab university journals to gain recognition in Scopus, Web of Science, and DOAJ, they require rigorous peer-review infrastructure, automated XML publishing, and airtight research integrity checks. MERIC provides turn-key digital publishing platforms, editorial team training, and originality screening.
The MERIC Publishing Advantage
A complete suite of tools addressing every stage from manuscript submission to international citation tracking.
- Seamless submission, double-blind peer review, and editorial decision tracking
- Native Arabic and English manuscript handling with bilingual interfaces
- Integrated similarity checking before peer review begins
- Consultation for indexing application compliance (DOAJ, Scopus, Clarivate)
Comprehensive Solutions for Scholarly Publishers
End-to-end publishing technology for university presses and scholarly associations.
Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Complete deployment and managed hosting of OJS 3: author submission portals, reviewer assignment, copyediting, and production queues.
Plagiarism & Similarity Checking
Enterprise originality checking tools comparing submitted manuscripts against billions of web pages and millions of published scholarly papers.
DOI & Crossref Integration
Automated Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration, XML metadata export, citation linking, and ORCID author identifier sync.
JATS XML & Galley Production
Automated conversion of Word manuscripts into structured JATS XML, interactive HTML web articles, and publication-ready PDF galleys.
Indexing & Quality Consulting
Editorial board advisory on ethics policies (COPE compliance), peer-review standards, and successful application dossiers for Scopus/WoS.
Institutional Publishing Portals
Unified portals hosting multiple faculty journals, university press monographs, and conference proceeding collections under one portal.
Serving the Scholarly Community
Empowering editors, deans, and research directors.
University Presses
Faculty journal suites, open-access monographs, and dissertations.
Scholarly Societies
Annual conference proceedings and specialized peer-reviewed journals.
Research Institutes
Technical report series, working papers, and policy periodicals.
Chief Editors & Boards
Automated reviewer assignment tools and anti-plagiarism screening.