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Judging Evidence Quality
Discipline-specific indexing
Discipline-specific indexing is the principle that indexing status should be checked against databases relevant to a paper's actual field, a journal absent from Scopus might still be properly indexed in a smaller, discipline-specific database like PsycINFO or CINAHL.
In context
You'll usually need this when a journal absent from Scopus or Web of Science might still be legitimately indexed elsewhere in its own field.