Crossref membership and DOI prefix

King Saud University is Crossref member 19827 and owns DOI prefix 10.33948, under which Crossref reports 1,521 registered DOIs (354 current, 1,167 backfile) as of 2026-09-01. The university's scholarly journals are administered by its Scientific Journals Department at journals.ksu.edu.sa; the flagship Journal of King Saud University series is published through Elsevier, so the hosting platform is a vendor's while the registrant is the institution.

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apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: king-saud-university:crossref
name: Crossref membership and DOI prefix
x-operator: registry
x-operator-basis: Crossref is an identifier registry the institution is registered in. The registry's
  own contract is not King Saud University's; the membership is.
description: King Saud University is Crossref member 19827 and owns DOI prefix 10.33948, under which Crossref
  reports 1,521 registered DOIs (354 current, 1,167 backfile) as of 2026-09-01. The university's scholarly
  journals are administered by its Scientific Journals Department at journals.ksu.edu.sa; the flagship
  Journal of King Saud University series is published through Elsevier, so the hosting platform is a vendor's
  while the registrant is the institution.
humanURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/19827
tags:
- Crossref
- DOI
- Scholarly Publishing
- Registry Membership
properties:
- type: RegistryRecord
  url: https://api.crossref.org/members/19827
- type: Prefix
  url: https://api.crossref.org/prefixes/10.33948
- type: Website
  url: https://journals.ksu.edu.sa/ar