The Conference proceedings have ISBN number issued against it. Is it important to have a DOI for the proceedings publications?
Dear Shamudra Dey
yes it is. ISBN identifies a concrete volume (book), while DOI is able to identify a concrete article (work).
There are at least two basic reasons:
1. Citing a given article by DOI, you need not to provide any auxiliary information about cited work - it is enough for full identification.
2. Having the DOI of an article one can easily check all metadata regarding authorship, keywords, including its journal or book, publisher and many others.
In one word the importance of using DOI in the publishing world is comparable to the importance of using EAN (usually expressed as barcodes) in the market of sale of goods.
Hi
It will get you to the online version of the article every time, even if the publisher has changed Web addresses.
Not only the DOI is important because it is useful for identification, but also if the RG score is important to you. Indeed, I noticed (after checking several scores and the offical criteria) that one "unofficial" factor to increase your score is the presence of a DOI number. Of course, that's only if you care about the RG score, which can be "nonsensical" as some users have put it.
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