§ Glossary · analytical

DOI

Digital Object Identifier — a permanent unique identifier for an academic paper or other published artefact.

A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a permanent, unique identifier assigned by Crossref (and other registration agencies) to an academic paper, dataset, or other digital artefact. DOIs do not change even if the publisher's URL changes — they resolve via doi.org/{identifier}. For research peptide literature, a DOI is the most permanent way to cite a paper; PMIDs are usually preferred for biomedical work because PubMed indexing is curated.

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