publicationcompatible

Publicationcompatible is a term used to describe artifacts that are prepared in a way that makes them readily acceptable for publication by journals, repositories, and other scholarly outlets. It applies to manuscripts, datasets, figures, code, and supplementary materials, and signals alignment with the expectations of professional publishers and digital platforms.

The concept encompasses formatting, metadata, licensing, and documentation required to satisfy submission and indexing workflows. Common aspects include adherence to a specified citation style, clear figure labeling and resolution, accessible and machine-readable files, and the inclusion of metadata such as authorship, affiliations, abstracts, and data availability statements.

For code and data, publicationcompatibility often involves providing a permissive license, a thorough README, containerization or environment specifications for reproducibility, and linking to persistent identifiers such as DOIs and ORCID iDs. Publisher guidelines frequently itemize these criteria in a Publication Compatibility Checklist or equivalent validation tools.

In practice, achieving publicationcompatibility reduces back-and-forth during peer review, shortens production times, and enhances discoverability and reproducibility of research outputs. It is a growing focus in open science and data stewardship initiatives, reflecting a broader move toward standardized, interoperable scholarly artifacts.

See also: reproducible research, metadata standards, JATS XML, Crossref, ORCID, Creative Commons licenses, open access.