Sustainable Biomaterials & Bioengineering (SBME) is committed to ensuring the broad visibility, accessibility, discoverability, and long-term scholarly impact of all published content through progressive integration with internationally recognised indexing and abstracting services.

The journal has been strategically structured from inception to align with the technical, editorial, ethical, and publishing standards required by major international indexing databases and scholarly discovery systems. Through rigorous peer review, transparent editorial governance, ethical publishing practices, and open-access dissemination, SBME aims to maximise the global reach and citation impact of the research it publishes.

Current Discoverability and Accessibility

As a newly established international journal, SBME is actively pursuing inclusion in major indexing and abstracting databases. Published articles are currently accessible through:

Google Scholar
ResearchGate
Institutional and repository-based discoverability systems
Open web scholarly indexing and metadata harvesting platforms

The journal’s open-access publishing model ensures immediate global accessibility of all published content without subscription barriers.

Current and Prospective Indexing Targets

SBME is actively pursuing, or strategically preparing for, inclusion in the following indexing and abstracting services:

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Google Scholar
ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
Crossref for DOI registration and metadata dissemination

Long-term strategic indexing objectives include:

The journal’s editorial structure, publication policies, peer review framework, and archiving infrastructure are being progressively developed to support future evaluation by these services.

Benefits of Indexing

Indexing and abstracting in recognised scholarly databases contribute significantly to:

Increased global visibility and discoverability of published research
Enhanced academic credibility and scholarly recognition
Improved citation potential and research impact
Greater accessibility for researchers, clinicians, engineers, policymakers, and industry professionals
Broader dissemination of interdisciplinary scientific knowledge
Long-term preservation and metadata integration across scholarly ecosystems

The journal is committed to maintaining the publishing standards required for inclusion in internationally recognised indexing systems.

Abstracting and Metadata Dissemination

SBME collaborates with scholarly metadata systems and abstracting services to improve content discoverability and interoperability across academic search environments.

Article metadata, abstracts, and indexing information are structured to support:

Scholarly search engine discoverability
Citation tracking
Repository harvesting
Cross-platform metadata integration
Long-term digital accessibility

Open Access and Scholarly Visibility

As a fully open-access journal, SBME supports unrestricted access to scientific knowledge and promotes the broad dissemination of interdisciplinary research in sustainable biomaterials, bioengineering, biotechnology, and environmental innovation.

All published content is freely accessible immediately upon publication under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Policy Review and Updates

The journal periodically reviews and updates its indexing and abstracting strategy to ensure continued alignment with internationally recognised standards in scholarly publishing, digital discoverability, metadata dissemination, and open-access best practices.

Any updates to indexing status, database inclusion, or abstracting partnerships will be communicated transparently through the official journal website and editorial announcements.

Through its commitment to rigorous peer review, ethical publishing, open science, and international visibility, Sustainable Biomaterials & Bioengineering aims to establish itself as a globally recognised scholarly platform for sustainable biomaterials and translational bioengineering research.