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.