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Africa: Rivista ... is a well-known academic journal on Africa, available in many university libraries.
According to the publisher is it indexed by Scopus and other services. The highly selective
JSTOR provides access to the journal's archive, up to 2021.
Merging this journal article with an institutional article? The problem is that
the publishing institute has changed during the lifetime of the journal, so the correspondence journal - institute is insecure. Publisher was IsIAO, but is currently Centro Studi per i Popoli Extraeuropei “Cesare Bonacossa”, University of Pavia, which lacks a Wikipedia article.
journal and publishing institutes are and were separate entities, on Wikidata and
idem on the Italian Wikipedia.
So i think it is best not to merge the articles of the journal and of any publishing institutes.
Thank you,
Hansmuller (
talk) 13:35, 17 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Going through this point for point:
"well-known": any evidence?
"indexed by Scopus and other services: NOT in Scopus, only in some EBSCO and MLA databases (see
here).
Cited in WP: absolutely trivial.
That is not a reason why merging to the current publisher should not be done.
Journal and publisher articles have separate Wikidata entries: absolutely trivial
Separate entries on Italian WP: also absolutely trivial.
In short: no notability, so deletion or merging would be the only options. --
Randykitty (
talk) 17:19, 17 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Going through this point-by-point:
"available in many university libraries": in well over 100 univ. libraries, incl. Cambridge, Frankfurt, Berlin, Madrid, Paris, London, Oxford, Princeton etc.; "well-known": see
https://www.aegis-eu.org/african-studies-journals ; ref. in Brill's African Studies Companion ;
"within WP cited 66 times": not trivial, if you care to take a look at the citations;
Merging is a bad idea, mainly because they journal and institute are not connected any more. This journal merits a separate article;
Several studies have shown the limitations of bibliometrical studies in the field of humanities. Luckily, the focus of evaluations of researchers, journals and scientific organisations is gradually shifting away from only measuring quantity.
Vysotsky (
talk) 21:34, 17 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Oppose merge, withdrawing support: The journal is in Scopus, meeting
WP:NJournals. I probably missed that before because the infobox presented an outdated ISSN. If
Headbomb agrees, the merge template can be removed. --
Randykitty (
talk) 16:42, 20 January 2024 (UTC)reply
I'll oppose merge solely on the grounds that the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient is no longuer associated with it. Passing
WP:NJOURNALS is another. I'll remove the merge template. Headbomb {
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This article is within the scope of WikiProject Academic Journals, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Academic Journals on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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Africa: Rivista ... is a well-known academic journal on Africa, available in many university libraries.
According to the publisher is it indexed by Scopus and other services. The highly selective
JSTOR provides access to the journal's archive, up to 2021.
Merging this journal article with an institutional article? The problem is that
the publishing institute has changed during the lifetime of the journal, so the correspondence journal - institute is insecure. Publisher was IsIAO, but is currently Centro Studi per i Popoli Extraeuropei “Cesare Bonacossa”, University of Pavia, which lacks a Wikipedia article.
journal and publishing institutes are and were separate entities, on Wikidata and
idem on the Italian Wikipedia.
So i think it is best not to merge the articles of the journal and of any publishing institutes.
Thank you,
Hansmuller (
talk) 13:35, 17 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Going through this point for point:
"well-known": any evidence?
"indexed by Scopus and other services: NOT in Scopus, only in some EBSCO and MLA databases (see
here).
Cited in WP: absolutely trivial.
That is not a reason why merging to the current publisher should not be done.
Journal and publisher articles have separate Wikidata entries: absolutely trivial
Separate entries on Italian WP: also absolutely trivial.
In short: no notability, so deletion or merging would be the only options. --
Randykitty (
talk) 17:19, 17 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Going through this point-by-point:
"available in many university libraries": in well over 100 univ. libraries, incl. Cambridge, Frankfurt, Berlin, Madrid, Paris, London, Oxford, Princeton etc.; "well-known": see
https://www.aegis-eu.org/african-studies-journals ; ref. in Brill's African Studies Companion ;
"within WP cited 66 times": not trivial, if you care to take a look at the citations;
Merging is a bad idea, mainly because they journal and institute are not connected any more. This journal merits a separate article;
Several studies have shown the limitations of bibliometrical studies in the field of humanities. Luckily, the focus of evaluations of researchers, journals and scientific organisations is gradually shifting away from only measuring quantity.
Vysotsky (
talk) 21:34, 17 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Oppose merge, withdrawing support: The journal is in Scopus, meeting
WP:NJournals. I probably missed that before because the infobox presented an outdated ISSN. If
Headbomb agrees, the merge template can be removed. --
Randykitty (
talk) 16:42, 20 January 2024 (UTC)reply
I'll oppose merge solely on the grounds that the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient is no longuer associated with it. Passing
WP:NJOURNALS is another. I'll remove the merge template. Headbomb {
t ·
c ·
p ·
b} 18:53, 20 January 2024 (UTC)reply