SOCIOPLASTICS: During the inevitable latency of Google Scholar indexing

The deliberate deposition of ten discrete documents endowed with persistent DOIs constitutes an act of ontological multiplication that strategically saturates the basal layer of scholarly infrastructure while reserving evaluative consecration for subsequent stages. Rather than conflating visibility with prestige, this manoeuvre recognises that durable inscription precedes hierarchical recognition; by multiplying traceable artefacts within reputable repositories, the researcher engineers serial density, expanding the surface area for accidental citation, algorithmic discovery, and temporal priority claims. Immediate consolidation through ORCID ensures attributive coherence, immunising the corpus against fragmentation and constructing a stable identity scaffold upon which future metrics may aggregate. During the inevitable latency of Google Scholar indexing, intellectual labour is redirected towards the argumentative distillation required for Q1 submission, transforming infrastructural waiting time into apical refinement. A hypothetical case illustrates the synthesis: a scholar deposits ten thematically interlocking theoretical instalments on epistemic governance, synchronises them under a unified identifier, observes gradual indexing traction, and concurrently refashions the strongest strand into rigorously tightened manuscripts tailored to elite journals. The DOIs function as scaffolding rather than monument; their purpose is to secure persistence and probabilistic discoverability, not immediate prestige. When executed with thematic discipline and effort asymmetry—modest infrastructural input paired with intensive apical refinement—the strategy exemplifies infrastructural literacy, converting basal saturation into upward momentum and enabling a calibrated pursuit of epistemic sovereignty within a stratified academic order.

Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics