Scholarly Communication

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.

OJS Mastery
Certified Open Journal Systems setup, custom themes, and journal indexing support
Crossref & DOIs
Automated metadata deposit, permanent DOI registration, and Crossmark integration
Anti-Plagiarism
Comprehensive similarity checking and AI originality detection for academic outputs
Academic Rigor & Global Indexing

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)
Publishing Infrastructure

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.

Publishing Partners

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.

Launch or Upgrade Your Academic Journal Platform

Talk to MERIC's scholarly publishing consultants for platform demos, OJS migration plans, and similarity checking licenses.

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