On 15th of December 2021 a paper was published on www.frontiersin.org: “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Avoidance of Health Care, Symptom Severity, and Mental Well-Being in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease”.
Frontiers is a leading Open Access Publisher and Open Science Platform with multiple peer-reviewed and editorial board led journals.
Neither Google, Bing nor DuckDuckGo did index it until today (24th of December). The paper was posted to ResearchGate on 17th of December. The ResearchGate page was indexed within days by Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo.
Now let’s see how long it will take the search engines to index this post (first published on 24th of December). To test this I will search for “Neither Google, Bing nor DuckDuckGo” and the paper title.
Update 26th of December:
This post was indexed by DuckDuckGo. Google and Bing do not yet show it in their results when searching for “Neither Google, Bing nor DuckDuckGo”. None of the search engines finds the paper.
Update 27th of December:
The Frontiers paper and this post was indexed by Bing. DuckDuckGo now also links to Frontiers when searching for the title. No results from Google yet.
Update 29th of December:
Google indexed this post. However, it still doesn’t find the paper on frontiersin.org
Update 4th ofJanuary:
Google finally indexed the frontiersin.org page.
Conclusion: FrontiersIn.org admins need to look into their SEO.
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