# Predecessor and Successor Journals

**URL:** <https://community.crossref.org/t/predecessor-and-successor-journals/13210>\
**Category:** Metadata Retrieval\
**Tags:** metadata-retrieval, journal, relationships\
**Created:** [18 February 2025 14:15 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/predecessor-and-successor-journals/13210 "2025-02-18T14:15:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![HieuBVN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.crossref.org/hieubvn/32/1898_2.png) [@HieuBVN](https://community.crossref.org/u/HieuBVN)\
**Post date:** [18 February 2025 14:15 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/predecessor-and-successor-journals/13210/1 "2025-02-18T14:15:48Z")

</div>

Hi everybody,

I am new with Crossref and would like to ask whether Crossref provide any metadata form showing the relation between two journals with one is predecessor/successor to each other? For example: The journal “Behavior Science Notes” (pISSN: 0005-7886) is predecessor of the journal “Cross-Cultural Research” (eISSN: 1552-3578; pISSN: 1069-3971)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ifarley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.crossref.org/ifarley/32/44_2.png) [@ifarley](https://community.crossref.org/u/ifarley)\
**Post date:** [18 February 2025 21:14 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/predecessor-and-successor-journals/13210/3 "2025-02-18T21:14:06Z")

</div>

Hello @HieuBVN ,

Thanks for your message. Technically speaking, a journal with a title change significant enough to warrant a new ISSN is considered a different journal by the ISSN Centre and our system. And, no, unfortunately, we don’t (yet) have a relationship at the journal level that can connect predecessor/successor journals to each other.

But, you can see records for each ISSN in our API:  
“Behavior Science Notes” - [https://api.crossref.org/journals/0005-7886/works](https://api.crossref.org/journals/0005-7886/works)  
“Cross-Cultural Research” - [https://api.crossref.org/journals/1552-3578/works](https://api.crossref.org/journals/1552-3578/works)

I wish I had a more satisfying answer,  
Isaac

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![HieuBVN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.crossref.org/hieubvn/32/1898_2.png) [@HieuBVN](https://community.crossref.org/u/HieuBVN)\
**Post date:** [24 February 2025 10:05 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/predecessor-and-successor-journals/13210/5 "2025-02-24T10:05:06Z")

</div>

Thank you very much @ifarley for your clear explanation with the two links.