Badge Kit

What the badge for an indexed journal looks like — seven shapes, light and dark. These are the files themselves, not mock-ups. An indexed journal collects its own, carrying its title, from the Publisher Panel.

“Indexed in” and “Listed in” are not the same badge, and both are honest

This kit says INDEXED IN CiteLink. It is produced only for journals that have been through indexing, and today that is three. It is not available for a journal that is merely in the catalogue, and it never will be — that is what makes it worth displaying.

Every journal profile also offers a smaller badge saying Listed in CiteLink. All 63,664 catalogued journals may use that one. It claims exactly what is true of them: the record exists here and can be checked. Neither badge carries a metric — a pasted image cannot update itself, and a number printed on one would go on asserting itself long after the profile had moved on.

The badge, in seven shapes

These carry no journal title — they are the generic form, which is also what a publisher with several indexed journals would use on a portfolio page. A badge naming a particular journal is issued to that journal.

Shape Ground

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Your journal’s own badge

A badge carrying your journal’s title, in all seven shapes plus the House colours plate in your own palette, is collected from the Publisher Panel or from the Badge & Widgets tab on your journal’s profile. Those know which journal you are working with, so they hand you your files and your snippet rather than a list to pick through.

This page does not list them, and that is a choice rather than a restriction: the files are world-readable and must be, because a badge embedded on your site has to load for your readers. What stops misuse is not secrecy — every badge links back to the profile it belongs to, so anyone displaying another journal’s badge is publishing a link to that journal.

Rules, and they are short

The badge must link back to the journal’s CiteLink profile. Every snippet here already does.
Do not alter the artwork, the wording or the proportions. Scale it freely; the files are vector.
Use it only while the journal is indexed. If a journal is delisted, the badge comes down — and that costs nothing: delisting is never a paid matter.
The House colours shape carries the journal’s own palette around an unchanging seal. It is for the journal’s own site, where its colours are already the background.

Indexing certificates

Every certificate issued so far, with its number. This list is the registry: a certificate is worth something because the issuer publishes what it has issued, which is why these are shown rather than kept. The file itself belongs to the journal it was issued to and is collected the same way the badge is. The public URL that would let a reader verify a number without writing to us is planned, not built — so a certificate is evidence to a person, not yet to a machine.

A machine-readable list of every badge, with sizes and link targets, is at assets/badges/manifest.json. The Listed in CiteLink badge — the one every catalogued journal may use — is generated from the Publisher Panel or from the Badge & Widgets tab on any journal profile.