International Indexing, Bibliographic Recognition, Scholarly Dissemination and Responsible Publishing
L’Europe Unie / United Europe is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal founded in Paris in 2007. The journal publishes research in European Studies, International Relations, Political Science, Contemporary History, European Law, Security Studies, governance and European Union external relations.
This institutional evidence portfolio documents the journal’s confirmed presence, registration, preservation or discoverability across 44 international academic databases, disciplinary indexes, university-library systems, repositories, bibliographic authorities, persistent-identifier infrastructures and scholarly discovery services.
The documented services include ERIH PLUS, EBSCO Political Science Complete, DOAJ, CEEOL, ProQuest and other Clarivate academic-information services, HeinOnline, ICI Journals Master List, J-Gate, SSRN and Mendeley Data within the Elsevier scholarly ecosystem, Crossref, Zenodo, OpenAIRE, DataCite Commons, SSOAR–GESIS, Policy Commons, HAL, IDEAS/RePEc, the ISSN Portal and ROAD, WorldCat/OCLC, BnF, SUDOC/ABES, ZDB, EZB, Mir@bel, MIAR, BASE and other international discovery services.
As of 29 August 2026, the documented portfolio includes 172 citations reported by Google Scholar, 225 DOI-bearing Zenodo/DataCite records and eight verified issue-level SSRN/Crossref DOI records, alongside further article-level records.
The portfolio provides a transparent and verifiable account of the journal’s international academic visibility, bibliographic identity, Diamond Open Access dissemination, DOI infrastructure, digital preservation and citation discoverability. It includes only confirmed and publicly verifiable information.
I. Academic Indexes, Content Platforms and Research Infrastructures
1. ERIH PLUS — Journal record · Additional bibliographic confirmation
Institution and location: Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, HK-dir — Bergen, Norway; infrastructure associated with OPERAS.
Identifier: Journal 500632.
Achievement and contribution: Specialist visibility in the humanities and social sciences. The journal-level record supports identification of the publication within an infrastructure concerned with scholarly publishing standards and editorial practices.
2. EBSCO — Political Science Complete — Official title lists · Coverage spreadsheet
Institution and location: EBSCO Information Services — Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States.
Identifiers: Print ISSN 2780-8173; Online ISSN 2743-4052.
Achievement and contribution: Subject-focused dissemination to political-science researchers and academic libraries. Coverage is documented through EBSCO’s title information and publisher correspondence. This presence is particularly relevant to European governance, international relations and public policy.
3. DOAJ — Directory of Open Access Journals — Journal record · Institutional information
Institution and location: DOAJ Foundation — Roskilde, Denmark.
Identifier: Online ISSN 2743-4052.
Achievement and contribution: Open-access journal discoverability and transparency concerning editorial policies, access conditions and publication charges. This complements the journal’s Diamond Open Access model.
4. CEEOL — Central and Eastern European Online Library — Journal record · Institutional contact
Institution and location: Central and Eastern European Online Library GmbH — Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Identifier: Journal 1955.
Achievement and contribution: Specialist dissemination of humanities and social-science scholarship, particularly research concerning Central and Eastern Europe.
5. HeinOnline — Law Journal Library — Official coverage announcement
Institution and location: William S. Hein & Co., Inc. — Getzville, New York, United States.
Identifiers: Europe Unie / United Europe; ISSNs 2780-8173 / 2743-4052.
Coverage: Volumes 1–23, 2007–2025, announced by HeinOnline.
Achievement and contribution: Specialist access for legal researchers, including scholarship on European affairs, international relations and human rights. The announcement provides an external statement of archive coverage.
6. ProQuest — Clarivate — Dedicated publication record · Journal’s supporting documentation · Earlier supporting documentation · Institutional website
Institution and location: ProQuest, part of Clarivate — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States; parent-group headquarters in London, United Kingdom.
Identifier: Publication 7607442.
Achievement: Signed content agreement and a dedicated publication record.
Contribution: Structured journal discovery and dissemination through academic-library research services. The journal’s supporting documentation records its ProQuest content presence.
7. PAIS International — Clarivate / ProQuest — Official database guide · PAIS overview · Shared journal publication record
Institution and location: ProQuest / Clarivate — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States; parent group in London, United Kingdom.
Identifier: Shared ProQuest publication 7607442; no separate PAIS accession number supplied.
Achievement: Selection for inclusion confirmed by Clarivate on 28 August 2026.
Contribution: Specialist discoverability in public affairs, public policy and international relations. The selection confirmation is distinct from verification of the extent of activated content coverage.
8. Worldwide Political Science Abstracts — Clarivate / ProQuest — Official database guide · Subject coverage · Official title list · Shared publication record
Institution and location: ProQuest / Clarivate — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States; parent group in London, United Kingdom.
Identifier: Shared ProQuest publication 7607442; no separate database accession number supplied.
Achievement: Selection for inclusion confirmed on 28 August 2026.
Contribution: Subject visibility in political science, comparative politics, governance and international relations.
9. International Bibliography of the Social Sciences — IBSS — Official database guide · Content information · Shared publication record
Institution and location: ProQuest / Clarivate — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States; parent group in London, United Kingdom.
Identifier: Shared ProQuest publication 7607442; no separate IBSS accession number supplied.
Achievement: Selection for inclusion confirmed on 28 August 2026.
Contribution: Multidisciplinary discovery across the social sciences, complementing the journal’s historical, political and international research perspectives.
10. Ex Libris — Central Discovery Index — Official CDI information · Ex Libris
Institution and location: Ex Libris, part of Clarivate — parent-group headquarters: London, United Kingdom.
Identifiers: ISSNs 2780-8173 / 2743-4052; individual CDI record number not supplied.
Achievement: Presence confirmed through Ex Libris correspondence.
Contribution: Discovery of journal content through participating libraries’ search systems and integration with library discovery workflows.
11. Ex Libris — Alma Community Zone — Official infrastructure information · Ex Libris
Institution and location: Ex Libris, part of Clarivate — parent-group headquarters: London, United Kingdom.
Identifiers: ISSNs 2780-8173 / 2743-4052; individual Community Zone identifier not supplied.
Achievement: Community Zone presence reported in the confirmation concerning ROAD-derived records.
Contribution: Bibliographic visibility within library resource-management infrastructure.
12. Ulrichsweb CLARIVATE — Global Serials Directory — Directory access
Institution and location: ProQuest / Clarivate — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States; parent group in London, United Kingdom.
Identifiers: ISSNs 2780-8173 / 2743-4052; separate directory record number not supplied.
Achievement and contribution: Serials identification and reference information supporting bibliographic verification. Institutional authentication may be required.
13. SSRN — Elsevier — Volume 16/2020 · Volume 17/2021 · Volume 18/2022 · Volume 19/2023 · Volume 20/2023 · Volume 21/2024 · Volume 22/2025 · Volume 23/2025
Institution and location: SSRN, Elsevier — parent-group headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Account identifier: 7593331. This is an account identifier, not a journal-selection identifier.
Volume identifiers:
- 16/2020: abstract 5410622; DOI 10.2139/ssrn.5410622.
- 17/2021: abstract 7230458; DOI 10.2139/ssrn.7230458.
- 18/2022: abstract 6624878; DOI 10.2139/ssrn.6624878.
- 19/2023: abstract 5405218; DOI 10.2139/ssrn.5405218.
- 20/2023: abstract 7233958; DOI 10.2139/ssrn.7233958.
- 21/2024: abstract 5405148; DOI 10.2139/ssrn.5405148.
- 22/2025: abstract 7266638; DOI 10.2139/ssrn.7266638.
- 23/2025: abstract 7230240; DOI 10.2139/ssrn.7230240.
Contribution: Dissemination of selected volumes and articles, persistent identification and publication-level usage information.
14. Mendeley Data — Elsevier — Public deposit · Persistent DOI
Institution and location: Mendeley Data, Elsevier — parent-group headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Identifiers: Dataset 6dyxm7yjpd, version 1; DOI 10.17632/6dyxm7yjpd.1.
Achievement and contribution: A versioned, citable public deposit associated with the journal. It supports persistent access to deposited material and repository-based dissemination.
15. Mendeley Reference Catalogue and Readership — Elsevier — Example catalogue record · Readership documentation
Institution and location: Mendeley, Elsevier — parent-group headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Identifier: Example catalogue UUID fc75e7a6-7d8f-372d-87fa-9fa7e7b09a4d, associated with The migration crisis as a tool of hybrid warfare.
Contribution: Reference-management discovery and article-level readership signals. Catalogue links were identified through PlumX readership sources. They are distinct from the Mendeley Data deposit.
16. PlumX Metrics — Elsevier — Example volume metrics · Journal’s metrics documentation
Institution and location: PlumX, Elsevier — parent-group headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Identifiers: Example publication DOI 10.2139/ssrn.5405148; Zenodo documentation record 22178860.
Achievement: Documentation covering eight journal volumes, ten individual articles and one Mendeley Data deposit, dated 30 August 2026.
Contribution: Publication-level evidence of usage and readership. These indicators complement, rather than replace, citation evidence. Absence of a displayed citation indicator should not automatically be interpreted as zero citations.
17. Zenodo — Journal community · ProQuest documentation · PlumX documentation · Litmaps documentation · Scilit documentation · DORA commitment
Institution and location: CERN — Meyrin/Geneva, Switzerland.
Identifiers: Community leuropeunie; individual deposit identifiers and DOIs beginning 10.5281/zenodo.
Contribution: Versioned deposits, persistent identifiers and public access to journal content and supporting documentation.
18. HAL — Journal-linked records · Volume 22/2025 · Volume 23/2025 · About HAL
Institution and location: Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe, CCSD — Villeurbanne, France.
Identifiers: HAL journal 1222011; example deposits hal-05010965 and hal-05586767.
Contribution: Open scholarly archiving, structured publication metadata and persistent access through French research infrastructure. Selected HAL records also supply bibliographic information to RePEc services.
19. IDEAS/RePEc — Volume 22/2025 record · NEP–European Economics announcement · HAL Post-Print series · IDEAS
Institution and location: IDEAS, a service using the international RePEc bibliographic network; hosted by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis — St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Institutional account of IDEAS.
Identifier: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05010965.
Source record: HAL hal-05010965.
Publication: 22/2025 L’Europe Unie — EU Enlargement and Resilience: Legal and Economic Reforms on Georgia’s Path to Integration.
Listed names: Simion Costea and Mihaela Daciana Natea.
Achievement: Selected journal content is discoverable through HAL-supplied metadata. Volume 22/2025 was also announced in NEP–European Economics on 21 July 2025, in a report issued by Giuseppe Marotta.
Contribution: Specialist bibliographic dissemination relevant to European integration, enlargement and economic reform. The NEP announcement is an additional dissemination achievement within the RePEc environment, not a separate acceptance of the entire journal.
20. SSOAR — Social Science Open Access Repository — Example deposited volume
Institution and location: GESIS — Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences — Mannheim and Cologne, Germany.
Identifier: Repository document 103552.
Contribution: Open-access archiving and subject-relevant dissemination through a social-science research institution.
21. OpenAIRE — Research discovery portal · Journal’s Zenodo community
Institution and location: OpenAIRE AMKE — Maroussi, Athens, Greece.
Identifiers: Harvested repository records and their DOIs; no separate journal identifier supplied.
Contribution: Integration of repository metadata into a European open-research discovery infrastructure. This describes an infrastructure connection, particularly through Zenodo.
22. DataCite — Institutional website · DataCite Commons search · Institutional identification · Example Mendeley Data DOI
Institution and location: DataCite — International Data Citation Initiative e.V. — Hannover, Germany.
Identifiers: Examples 10.5281/zenodo.22178860 and 10.17632/6dyxm7yjpd.1.
Contribution: DOI registration and interoperable metadata for deposits made through platforms including Zenodo and Mendeley Data. This infrastructure supports persistent identification and citation.
23. Crossref — Institutional website · Example volume DOI · Corresponding SSRN record
Institution and location: Publishers International Linking Association, Inc., operating as Crossref — Lynnfield, Massachusetts, United States.
Identifier: Example DOI 10.2139/ssrn.5410622.
Contribution: Persistent identification and bibliographic metadata for selected publications deposited through SSRN. Crossref is institutionally separate from DataCite. This DOI route does not imply direct journal membership of Crossref.
II. Bibliographic Identity, Publication Policies and Institutional Authorities
24. ISSN Portal and ROAD — Online ISSN record · Print ISSN record · ISSN-L record
Institution and location: ISSN International Centre — Paris, France.
Identifiers: Print ISSN 2780-8173; Online ISSN and ISSN-L 2743-4052.
Contribution: Authoritative serial identification, linkage between publication formats and bibliographic verification of the journal’s French identity. The online record displays ROAD registration.
25. Bibliothèque nationale de France — Catalogue record
Institution and location: Bibliothèque nationale de France — Paris, France.
Identifiers: FRBNF46788002; ARK cb46788002s.
Contribution: National bibliographic registration and authoritative identification in France’s national-library catalogue.
26. SUDOC / ABES — Catalogue record
Institution and location: Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur — Montpellier, France.
Identifier: PPN 179345656.
Contribution: Identification within the French higher-education library network and support for consistent bibliographic description.
27. WorldCat / OCLC — Catalogue record
Institution and location: OCLC — Dublin, Ohio, United States.
Identifier: OCLC 882548888.
Contribution: International library discoverability and cross-catalogue identification of the journal.
28. Jisc Open Policy Finder — formerly Sherpa Romeo — Publication-policy record · Supporting Mir@bel record
Institution and location: Jisc — Bristol, United Kingdom.
Identifier: Publication 46725.
Contribution: Visibility of publication and self-archiving policies. This supports transparency concerning author rights, dissemination permissions and permitted versions of scholarly works.
29. Mir@bel — Journal record
Institution and location: Cooperative network coordinated by Sciences Po Lyon, Sciences Po Grenoble, MSH Dijon and ENTPE — Lyon, Grenoble, Dijon and Vaulx-en-Velin, France.
Identifier: Journal 10418.
Contribution: Structured information about the journal’s publisher, languages, Diamond Open Access model and online access routes. Its record links to other bibliographic and discovery services.
30. ZDB — Zeitschriftendatenbank — Serial record
Institution and location: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek — Berlin and Frankfurt am Main/Leipzig, Germany.
Identifiers: ZDB 2926674-9; IDN 1156053625.
Contribution: Authoritative serial identification and discoverability within German library infrastructure.
31. EZB — Electronic Journals Library — Journal record
Institution and location: University Library of Regensburg — Regensburg, Germany.
Identifier: Journal 338871.
Contribution: Library-oriented information about electronic journal availability and access conditions.
32. MIAR — Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals — ISSN-based record · About MIAR
Institution and location: University of Barcelona — Barcelona, Spain.
Identifier: ISSN 2780-8173.
Contribution: Consolidated information about bibliographic presence and database coverage. MIAR complements, rather than replaces, consultation of each database’s own records.
33. ISNI — International Standard Name Identifier — Publisher identifier · ISNI International Agency · Agency identification at ISO · Publisher information
Institution and location: ISNI International Agency — London, United Kingdom.
Publisher identifier: Association JISR — 0000 0005 3020 7149.
Partner identifiers: Napoca Star — 0000 0005 3026 8179; Institute of Research in European Studies — 0000 0005 3028 6502.
Contribution: Persistent identification and disambiguation of the publisher and publishing partners. These identify organisations, not journal-indexing decisions.
Documentation note: The identifiers are supplied in the journal’s institutional documentation. The publisher’s individual ISNI record could not be fully rechecked through automated access.
34. Ringgold — Institutional Identification — Institutional contact information · Publisher and partner identifiers
Institution and location: Ringgold — North American office: Beaverton, Oregon, United States; European office: Bristol, United Kingdom.
Publisher identifier: Association JISR — 849289.
Partner identifiers: Napoca Star — 850284; Institute of Research in European Studies — 850678.
Contribution: Institutional identification and consistent organisation metadata in scholarly publishing workflows. The identifiers do not constitute journal indexation or editorial accreditation.
35. DORA — Declaration on Research Assessment — Journal’s commitment statement · About DORA · Meaning of signing · DORA website
Institution and location: DORA, an international responsible-assessment initiative; administrative association with the American Society for Cell Biology — Rockville, Maryland, United States. The declaration originated at the Society’s meeting in San Francisco, United States, in 2012.
Journal documentation identifier: Zenodo record 22149367.
Achievement: The journal adopted its commitment on 28 August 2026 and received an acknowledgement concerning its signing submission.
Contribution: A commitment to assess research on its substantive merits and to use quantitative indicators responsibly.
Status distinction: Adoption of the journal’s commitment and receipt of an acknowledgement are documented. Appearance in DORA’s public organisational-signatory list has not been independently confirmed here. DORA is not an indexing database.
III. Academic Discovery and Thematic Dissemination
36. OpenAlex — Source record · ISSN Portal cross-reference · Mir@bel cross-reference · Institutional country record
Institution and location: OurResearch — United States; distributed organisation, with its city not independently verified here.
Identifier: OpenAlex Source S7407061445, linked from the ISSN Portal.
Contribution: Open bibliographic identification and connections between publications, authors, institutions and research topics.
37. BASE — Bielefeld Academic Search Engine — Journal-name search
Institution and location: Bielefeld University Library — Bielefeld, Germany.
Identifiers: Individual harvested records; search name L’Europe unie.
Contribution: Cross-repository discovery and additional routes to openly accessible scholarly material.
38. CORE — Research discovery platform
Institution and location: The Open University — Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.
Identifiers: Individual aggregated records.
Contribution: Discovery of repository-hosted publications.
39. Biblioteca Digitală / ProEuropeana — Publication collection · Institutional information
Institution and location: Institutul Național al Patrimoniului, Digital Heritage Directorate — Bucharest, Romania.
Identifier: Publication collection 9661.
Contribution: Public digital-library access supporting the dissemination of historical and scholarly publications. The identifiable institutional operator and dedicated collection provide a concrete bibliographic and access resource.
40. Policy Commons —Search | Policy Commons Platform · Coherent Digital’s databases
Institution and location: Coherent Digital — Alexandria, Virginia, United States.
Identifiers: Journal ISSNs 2780-8173 / 2743-4052; specific public item identifier not supplied here.
Contribution: Reported dissemination relevant to European policy, governance and international affairs.
41. History Commons — Platform · Coherent Digital’s databases
Institution and location: Coherent Digital — Alexandria, Virginia, United States.
Identifiers: Journal ISSNs 2780-8173 / 2743-4052; specific public item identifier not supplied here.
Contribution: Documented content-upload activity supporting the dissemination of contemporary-history scholarship. Upload activity and independently verified public availability are distinct stages.
42. Africa Commons — Platform · Coherent Digital’s databases
Institution and location: Coherent Digital — Alexandria, Virginia, United States.
Identifiers: Journal ISSNs 2780-8173 / 2743-4052; specific public item identifier not supplied here.
Contribution: Presence reported in the journal’s portfolio, with potential thematic relevance to Europe–Africa relations and international studies. Item-level coverage remains to be documented with a direct public record.
43. Canada Commons — Public content record · Coherent Digital’s databases
Institution and location: Coherent Digital — Alexandria, Virginia, United States.
Identifiers: Artifact 30883532; associated record 31783353.
Contribution: An identifiable content record within the Commons dissemination infrastructure.
Policy Commons, History Commons, Africa Commons and Canada Commons belong to the same institutional family. Their separate presentation describes different platforms, not four independent editorial endorsements.
44. J-Gate — Platform · Operator information
Institution and location: Informatics India Ltd — Bengaluru, India.
Identifiers: Journal ISSNs 2780-8173 / 2743-4052.
Achievement: Signed licensing agreement, according to the journal’s documentation.
Contribution: A contractual basis for dissemination through an academic discovery service. J-GATE has their own rules for accession to content.
45. Index Copernicus — ICI Journals Master List — Journal record · Institutional website
Institution and location: Index Copernicus Sp. z o.o. — Lublin, Poland.
Identifier: Journal 133341.
Achievement: ICV 2024: 100.00, recorded in the journal’s achievements documentation.
Contribution: Structured journal profiling, evaluation and validation.
IV. Additional Discovery Services and Dissemination Profiles
46. Scilit — Platform · Journal’s coverage documentation
Institution and location: MDPI — Basel, Switzerland.
Identifiers: Underlying publication DOIs; Zenodo documentation record 22058237, not a Scilit journal identifier.
Achievement: Documented discovery of volumes 16–23, 2020–2025.
Contribution: DOI-based retrieval and bibliographic discoverability of the journal’s publications. Content discovery.
47. Litmaps — Platform · Journal’s coverage documentation
Institution and location: Litmaps — Wellington, New Zealand.
Identifiers: Publication DOIs; Zenodo documentation record 22173175, not a Litmaps journal identifier.
Achievement: The journal’s documentation records seven volumes and three individual articles.
Contribution: Publication discovery and exploration of relationships between scholarly works. This describes publication-level discoverability, not independent journal accreditation.
48. The Lens — Dissemination profile · Current institutional information · Contact information
Institution and location: The Lens Limited, a subsidiary of SPIE — West End, Queensland, Australia.
Identifier: Profile 672286772.
Contribution: Scholarly search and exploration of connections between research outputs.
49. Google Scholar — Public profile
Institution and location: Google — Mountain View, California, United States.
Identifier: Profile mZF9WCsAAAAJ.
Contribution: An additional route to publication discovery and citation information. The profile is a dissemination tool, not journal accreditation. 172 citations. Numerical indicators evolve.
50. ResearchGate — Dissemination profile
Institution and location: ResearchGate GmbH — Berlin, Germany.
Identifier: Profile Leurope-Unie-Costeasimion.
Contribution: Researcher-facing dissemination, shared publication information and opportunities for scholarly engagement. A profile does not constitute independent journal selection.
51. ResearchBib — Journal record
Institution and location: ResearchBib; operator’s city and country not independently verified.
Identifier: ISSN 2780-8173.
Contribution: Additional journal-directory visibility, including publisher information and a description of the journal’s scholarly scope. Its role is supplementary to authoritative library records, policy services and specialist academic platforms.
For more information, please visit: https://zenodo.org/records/22166846
