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BioScience has been languishing for years with no infobox or independent sources. Someone should really fix that (I'd do it myself but I'm sick of doing it for lots of other journals). Jinkinson talk to me 01:17, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
As Wikipedian in Residence at the Royal Society, the National Academy for the sciences of the UK, I am again pleased to say that the two Royal Society History of Science journals will be fully accessible for free for 2 days on March 25th and 26th. This is in conjunction with the Diversity in Science Edit-a-thon on 25 March. The event is held by the Royal Society and there are currently a couple of places available, as well as online participation which is very welcome, as are suggestions for articles relevant to the theme of "Diversity in Science" that need work, and topics that need coverage.
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Hi, I have started a discussion about the categorization of nursing journals here and the input of interested editors is welcome. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 11:22, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I am having trouble finding the impact factor for some T&F journals. However, I have discovered a PDF for 2013 impact factors and other information. Of course, this is still the 2012 impact factors.
And, here is the 2012 edition of this PDF - [1]. --- Steve Quinn ( talk) 06:33, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
I believe that our dab page Historia is missing fr:Historia (revue), which is Historia (Q3138323), claiming a 1909 year of commencement. The French Wikipedia page uses ISSN 0998-0091, added back in 2006 [2].
As far as I can see, that ISSN 0998-0091 is wrong, and it is allocated to a book series by the same/similar name published from Perpignan, France. bibliothèque de l'Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (Q16338024)'s record calls it Collection Col.leccio Historia, and Stanford SearchWorks has two records which include that ISSN.
There is also Historia (Q15750593), which is included in the ERA journal list (as a 'C' ranked journal in 2010), and whose ISSNs given are 1270-0835 and 1625-6581, which report it was published by Éditions Tallandier (Q3237900), 1956-, 1995- and 2000- in various records, with one note that says "Mensuel. / Fait suite à [continues]: Historia. Historama." and the another also mentions ISSN 0018-2281 and ISSN 1283-453X. This and that say it commenced in June 1955. This has the very informative note: "Suite de : Historia, Historama. = ISSN 1255-8230 qui est une fusion de : Historia (1956) = ISSN 0018-2281 et de Historama, Histoire magazine = ISSN 0752-3408. - A comme supplément(s) : Le Point Historia = ISSN 1969-9859" [Continues Historia, Historama. ISSN 1255-8230, which was a merge of Historia (1956) ISSN 0018-2281 and Historama, Histoire magazine ISSN 0752-3408. Supplement blah blah ]. It seems the merge happened around 1995.
After consulting this, I am basicly ready to conclude that Historia (Q3138323) = Historia (Q15750593), it has had many different names over its long history, and someone needs to write it up , as the French article isnt very informative.
One issue is that Historia (Q3138323) is listed as published by Sophia Publications (Q16336113), where as Historia (Q15750593) is published by Éditions Tallandier (Q3237900). According to fr:Artémis (holding) and [3], they are both controlled by the Pinault family. My guess is Sophia was created during a restructure of Tallandier Éditions. John Vandenberg ( chat) 08:32, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
This newspaper is at AFD. Although not an academic journal, the AFD discussion centers (among other things) on the possible use of this newspaper as an academic source, so this may be of interest to some editors here. -- Randykitty ( talk) 13:33, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
There's a discussion over the proper name for the category Philatelic journals editors here may be interested in. -- Randykitty ( talk) 19:16, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
If one or more of you would take a look at Psychological Injury and Law (Journal) I would greatly appreciate it. I am on the Board of Directors of the professional society that sponsors the journal and I am an occasional editor and one-time author in the journal. I therefore tried to be extra careful about WP:NPOV. If you see anything that looks slanted, biased, promotional, etc., please have at it! Many thanks - Mark D Worthen PsyD 17:07, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Markworthen:, I have created Psychological Injury and Law (Q16736827) in Wikidata, and added some of the information which was removed from the Wikipedia article, where possible. It is a good place to add details for things which do not yet have a Wikipedia article, such as the editor, organisation, etc, and it is also OK to all of the main editors, as each has a ' rank'. It is also a good place to collect the details where a conflict of interest is less burdensome, as you cant easily introduce bias in data, and then others can construct the prose around those facts free of suggestion from the person with the COI. Othertimes it is not an option to store details in Wikidata. e.g. impact factors are probably not able to be put into Wikidata - see d:Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive/2014/Properties/1; coverage in bibliographic databases was rejected at d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative_work#indexed in, etc. Like others here, I appreciate you notifying this WikiProject about your COI with the topic. Hopefully you create more articles about journals in your discipline area. Here are 'missing' English Wikipedia articles for periodicals, where we have an article in German Wikipedia, in French Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia, or Russian Wikipedia ;-) John Vandenberg ( chat) 09:35, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
In order to migrate data from infoboxes to Wikidata, I need to avoid migrating template:infobox journal data when the article is about a different thing. As a result, my scripts now have a rule that if the infobox is more than 200 characters from beginning of the page content, I assume the infobox should be ignored. Below is a list of all articles with {{ infobox journal}} that not on a 'journal' article.
Some of those might be able to be split to separate articles about only the journal, but in many cases the journal and society are not both separately notable. John Vandenberg ( chat) 18:06, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Can anybody cleanup this AfC draft before we send it into Main? I'd appreciate a check of the impact factor (best I could do was ResearchGate) and indexing (only Elsevier, really?) as well as the content (which is underreferenced and a bit peacocky). Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 19:51, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Those of you involved in writing for, editing, or publishing journals may be interested in
ORCID. ORCID is an open system of identifiers for people - particularly researchers and the authors of academic papers; but also contributors to other works, not least Wikipedia editors. ORCIDs are a bit like ISBNs for books or DOIs for papers. You can register for one, free, at
http://orcid.org As well as including your ORCID in any works to which you contribute, you can include it in your user page using {{
Authority control}} thus: {{Authority control|ORCID=0000-0001-5882-6823}}
(that template can also include other identifies, such as VIAF and LCCN - there's an example on my user page). ORCID identifiers can also be added to biographical articles, either directly or via Wikidata.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 12:22, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
An original new way of making people think you're a respectable journal: look for a respectable title that folded long ago and claim you're the continuation and tht your new journal actually was established back in the 50s... -- Randykitty ( talk) 12:08, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
As of today, I am Wikipedian in Residence at ORCID. The role is described in Announcing ORCID's Wikipedian-in-Residence. Please let me know if I can assist you, in that or any other capacity. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:24, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
I created an article on Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine. The impact factor seems low, but the journal seems respectable enough. If anyone can improve the article, that would be appreciated. I first encountered the journal as a reference for Wobbly hedgehog syndrome. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 04:14, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
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I have started a discussion on the application of notability guidelines to academic journals at the Village Pump here. Opinions are welcome. -- Randykitty ( talk) 17:40, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Could other editors look at Journal of International Translational Medicine? I am not sure that it is notable. I converted another editor's speedy to a prod to allow time for others to look at the article. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 16:13, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
I accepted Journal of Financial Studies. I think it's notable, but if you feel it isn't, please tag the article accordingly. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 23:03, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
The new impact factors are online (if you have access to the JCR, but publishers usually update their websites quite rapidly). Please also update any references when updating IFs: many articles have the IF not only in the infobox, but also in the text. The publication year needs to be changed to 2014, the title to "2013 JCR". Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 07:36, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
There's an article to be written here. I've started it, but it could be expanded to a much better article, and likely get a WP:DYK from it if we work fast enough. Not sure about how feasible it is to take to GA (or even FA status), but this one has more potential than a lot of things under the umbrella of WP:JOURNALS. Just dropping by to let you know I'm planning on working on this one (plus member journals) over the next few days. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:27, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
If you could please weigh in here. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 13:25, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
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Could other editors please look at International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets? I am not sure that the journal is notable. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 23:42, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
Many reputable organizations publish a journal of minor influence which do not meet even WP:NJOURNALS. How would anyone feel about them existing as categorized redirects to the organization's Wikipedia article?
Consider the Faculty Dental Journal of the Faculty of Dental Surgery. This organization is an influential authority on dental practices. This journal is their journal, and I presume it publishes excellent boring information which never will be critiqued in other third party sources and therefore will not meet Wikipedia's inclusion criteria.
Could the article on this journal persist as a redirect to the organization's article, but be categorized in Category:Dentistry journals? I presume that this journal is at least worth mentioning in that organization's article, and it probably could be listed in an article called "List of dentistry journals", but I agree it does not meet Wikipedia's inclusion criteria. However, it would be more useful to categorize it then mention it in odd places, yet categorization only happens for items with their own Wikipedia page. That page can be a redirect and still get the categorization.
Randykitty, any thoughts? You PROD'd the page. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:11, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
I have been informed on my talk page, essentially the images I placed on series of articles have been replaced. These have become orphaned non-free images: File:ISI Web of knowledge logo.jpg; File:Search result from ISI Web of Knowledge image.jpg; and File:Web of science and web of knowledge.gif.
It may be that these images are dated. However, interestingly, I did a Google search for Web of Knowledge. There are almost no hits in the first 30 slots for Web of Knowledge. There are only links to Web of Science. Does anyone know if Web of Knowledge still exists? If not then we might need to do some rewriting on Web of Knowledge and Web of Science articles. Also, I won't have time to work on these until December. Sorry. --- Steve Quinn ( talk) 05:11, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
OK. I may have found an answer on a Thomson Reuters' WoS page ( click on link here) -- "You asked for a more intuitive search experience. And on January 12th, we unveiled an easier and more streamlined way for you to navigate our carefully curated citation index. We have improved your user experience, and renamed it. The Web of Knowledge — as you know it — is now simply the Web of Science" -- Steve Quinn ( talk) 06:22, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
Also, I placed the first image mentioned above back into the article for historical purposes. It is now near the bottom of the Web of Knowledge article. --- Steve Quinn ( talk) 06:22, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
Could someone please review this edit to Crossings (journal)? I believe that library and society sources are appropriate for establishing #1 Wikipedia:Notability_(academic_journals). If the sources I have added are not appropriate (and I agree that they're minimal), let's either find better ones or PROD this article as non-notable.
I came across this in the course of updating Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academic_Journals/List_of_missing_journals/A-C#C and need some help to avoid edit warring. Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 08:54, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 09:03, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
There's a discussion on the talk page of this journal article about the appropriateness of including raw data on the numbers of items published each year. Comments from knowledgeable editors here are welcome. -- Randykitty ( talk) 22:38, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
The discussion is here: Wikipedia_talk:Identifying_reliable_sources_(medicine)#Impact_factor_of_journals_as_the_determining_factor_in_weight Comments would be appreciated by those who know a lot about this issue. Jinkinson talk to me 02:12, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
please weigh in here: Template talk:Infobox journal#Eigenfactor?. Fgnievinski ( talk) 03:52, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
pls weigh in here: Talk:Impact_factor#rename to Impact Factor (capitalized). Fgnievinski ( talk) 04:02, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
I have just created Category:Academic journals published in the United Kingdom, Category:Academic journals published in the United States, and the parent category Category:Academic journals by country of publication. Please help to deploy them, and populate the latter with sub-categories for other countries. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:18, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
Here's another interesting example: Acta Neurologica Belgica. It is the official journal of 8 (eight!) Belgian societies, but published by Springer Science+Business Media, a German company. Does that make it a German journal? No, wait, it's website says that is is published by Springer Milan, so it's an Italian journal... -- Randykitty ( talk) 17:19, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
isn't it time we start categorizing articles based on the importance for this project? plenty other projects already do so. Fgnievinski ( talk) 02:36, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Please see here: Talk:Academia#WikiProject Academia?. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 02:11, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Discussion is here. Contributions thereto would be appreciated. Everymorning talk to me 00:20, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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Discussion is here. I'm inclined to agree w/nom since it's not indexed in any of the really important databases and has no IF, but I'm not sure, which is why I haven't !voted. Everymorning talk to me 03:03, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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This is a notice about Category:Academic Journals articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock ( talk) 18:05, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Please beware, see: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/12/11/fake-isi-aims-to-trick-the-scholarly-community/ -- Randykitty ( talk) 09:22, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
On Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/In_the_Sea_of_Sterile_Mountains:_The_Chinese_in_British_Columbia there is the question on whether the following two academic journals have notability:
And should publications from these journals (book reviews) count towards the notability of the book? WhisperToMe ( talk) 15:00, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Immunome Research. Discussion would be appreciated. Everymorning talk 23:57, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
The Royal Society of Chemistry (where I'm employed as Wikimedian in Residence, to declare my interest) have a new journal: Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology [5], should anyone want to start an article. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:24, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Pls see: Template_talk:Infobox_journal#Sponsor_field. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 06:12, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Category_talk:Academic_journals_published_by_university_presses#University presses or just universities?. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 06:14, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls help populate Category:Academic journals published by museums. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 06:21, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls see: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_January_8#Category:Open_content_publishing_companies. Fgnievinski ( talk) 06:29, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Category_talk:Creative_Commons-licensed_journals#Non-diffusing subcategory of category open access journals. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 06:30, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls help populate Category:Continuous journals. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 06:53, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Talk:University_press#Most -- all? -- are nonprofit. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 08:12, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
I have these two H-Net reviews of books:
Do they pass WP:RS for use as sources about the respective books? WhisperToMe ( talk) 16:32, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Medical journal redirects to Public health journal which has a {{ For}} template pointing to Medical literature § Journals. That seems backward to me. - - MrBill3 ( talk) 08:53, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Please help diffuse Category:Academic journals edited by students. Maybe a bot can move only members of Category:Law journals and of its child subcats? Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 01:51, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Including independent research institutes, learned societies, museums, the government, universities; please help populate subcats of Category:Academic journals published by non-profit publishers. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 01:56, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Template talk:Infobox journal#Categories. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 15:55, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
E.g., should Category:IEEE academic journals and Category:Oxford University Press academic journals appear in Category:Academic journals by publisher TOO, or ONLY in Category:Academic journals published by learned societies respectively Category:Academic journals published by university presses? Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 15:34, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
thus also not journals (see
serials and periodicals for background). e.g.,
AIP Conference Proceedings,
Proceedings of SPIE, and possibly
Journal of Physics: Conference Series (also known as IOP Conference Series). do we need an {{
infobox proceedings}}
?
Fgnievinski (
talk) 03:45, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
I noticed that
Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale is a member of multiple language categories: English-language journals, French-language journals, Chinese-language journals. I was going to correct that, replacing the three memberships with a single one in
Category:Multilingual journals, but I think that change would lose valuable information. Nowadays, very few journals don't accept contributions in English in addition to their primary language, so I suspect many entries in individual language categories are similarly misplaced and should in principle go in Multilingual journals. If we enforce the current categorization scheme, we'll end up basically with two very large sub-cats in
Category:Academic journals by language,
Category:English-language journals and Multilingual journals. That wouldn't be very useful. Can we make Multilingual journals a non-diffusing sub-category of Academic journals by language? I.e., I'd like to insert {{
Non-diffusing parent category|Multilingual journals}}
in
Category:Academic journals by language, and {{
Non-diffusing subcategory|Academic journals by language|journals}}
in
Category:Multilingual journals.
See Wikipedia:Categorization#Non-diffusing subcategories for details. Fgnievinski ( talk) 02:55, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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There's a discussion at Talk:Education in Chemistry about whether or not information about the availability of a mobile app is encyclopedic or promotional and should be included in our articles on journals and magazines. More input is welcome. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 08:15, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Talk:List of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers publications#Magazines vs. journals. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 01:46, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Does the project have any guidance on the notability of academic societies? I recently de-prodded Florida Philosophical Association, which was established in 1955 and is associated with what looks to be a respectable e-journal ( Florida Philosophical Review), and on reflection would like a second opinion on its notability. Espresso Addict ( talk) 15:49, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
I found three so far: Norwegian, Brazilian, and South African; let me know if you're aware of others. It might help in gauging journal notability. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 19:02, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 March 3#Category:Anesthesiology and palliative medicine journals. Everymorning talk 02:29, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Is this journal notable? It's been declined twice already. However, this says the journal is indexed in Pubmed/Medline, so it seems like it might pass WP:NJOURNALS. What do others think? Everymorning talk 03:11, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi. A debate is happening here about how the content of an article published in Annals of Human Genetics should be described. I'm saying we should use "academic research" to describe it, whereas another editor is suggesting "official legal work". Can we get some input on this from people who are familiar with debates about journals? Cordless Larry ( talk) 08:02, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Should this category, which currently contains a couple nephrology journals, be split into the category that already exists and Category:Nephrology journals as well? Or is it too difficult to draw a line between these two disciplines? Everymorning talk 02:27, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi. There's a request for comment here on the use of academic journal articles to support the addition of material to an article, and whether the material breaches WP:REDFLAG and WP:NEOLOGISM. Input from those with expertise on academic sources would be welcome. Cordless Larry ( talk) 10:02, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Please see this AFC Help Desk topic where a new contributor needs help writing a new article about a scientific journal. Thanks Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 09:40, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Please see Draft:Angelicum an article about a theology journal, the author is having difficulty demonstrating notability. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 15:40, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
This AFD may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Everymorning talk 14:13, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
An IP is trying to add some text to the article impact factor about "partial" IFs. I've never heard about this, although they just posted on my talk page two instances (both blog posts, albeit from a reputable organization and publisher) where this expression was used. Nevertheless, I am not convinced that we should include this in the article. Any opinions from other editors here are welcome. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 17:05, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
This AFD may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Everymorning talk 10:45, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Is there a bot already that helps with any of these, or could?
LeadSongDog come howl! 02:50, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
LeadSongDog come howl! 15:26, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Should Wikipedia honor the journal title capitalization style preferred by its publisher? E.g., Chest is referred to consistently as CHEST [8]. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 15:36, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
ISO Abbreviation: Thorac Surg Clin Title: Thoracic surgery clinics As a general thing, publishers like their own titles to be in a higher-case form than we would use, as it serves their commercial purposes. Similarly, we do not preserve the all-caps routinely found in the headlines of New York Times articles when we cite them. The allcaps "MAN BITES DOG" would normally become sentencecase "Man bites dog" or at most titlecase "Man Bites Dog". LeadSongDog come howl! 16:05, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philately#Philatelic magazines vs. Philatelic journals that may be of interest to participants in this project. -- Randykitty ( talk) 12:58, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
pls see Talk:Scholarly peer review/Draft ( discussions). Fgnievinski ( talk) 14:25, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
pls see Talk:Review journal#merge. thx Fgnievinski ( talk) 15:17, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. Everymorning talk 16:32, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Talk:Law review#Categorizing peer reviewed or not. Fgnievinski ( talk) 15:41, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
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Although strictly outside the scope of this wiki-project, I thought some of you could weigh in here: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_June_24#Category:Science_books. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 00:36, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
It looks like this article has become a target for stealth-spammers who have added information about numerous journals to the "Publishing case reports" section. This doesn't seem very relevant and I think it should be trimmed considerably. Others' thoughts? Everymorning talk 13:27, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Is there an infobox for academic journal articles? —Мандичка YO 😜 06:33, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Category:Academic journals edited by students seems to have a lot of magazines -- please help weed out. The ones that are peer-reviewed, most seem to fail the notability test (certainly in terms of indexing in selective bibliographic databases). Fgnievinski ( talk) 03:57, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
In case you're familiar with Category:Recent changes boxes (see, e.g., Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Lists of pages), I've started Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academic_Journals/Lists_of_pages/All_pages, based on Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Lists of pages and its sub-pages. The selection of wikilinks listed in those sub-pages probably needs to be fine grained, by namespace (categories only, articles, etc.). Another idea is to have sub-pages split by subject area (e.g., Category:Physics journals, Category:Medical journals), in which case we'd need a bot to list all the pages in branch up to a certain depth. Fgnievinski ( talk) 05:31, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
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DePiep (
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Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Academic Journals/List of untagged articles. As per Wikipedia:Bot requests#Academic journals may lack WPJournals template in their talk pages, "The category tree looks good for requesting the template be added. Note that some of the articles do not have talk pages." I think except for Category:Academic journal editors, the rest could be tagged by a bot; class=unsorted by default? Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 20:42, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Talk:Hijacked journal#Articles about each hijacked journal?. Fgnievinski ( talk) 23:39, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
See Talk:List_of_lists_of_academic_journals#Requested_move_21_July_2015. Would appreciate it if knowledgable editors would weigh in there. Everymorning talk 15:44, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
I believe this one could have a great DYK (e.g. DYK that... PHR was established by the US Surgeon General John Maynard Woodworth according to the National Quarantine Act of 1878?), but the prose section is under the 1,500 bytes requirements. Help with the expansion would be appreciated. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:05, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
In April of this year, someone created Category:Nephrology journals. I wanted to know if other contributors to this wikiproject thought this discipline was well-defined enough to warrant its own category. Previously Randykitty said that "Urology and nephrology are really closely intertwined, so it may be difficult to categorize some journals if we split this cat [i.e. the "urology journals" cat]." Everymorning (talk) 22:29, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Would some of you please help me create Rhetoric & Public Affairs? I'd like it to be strong enough to avoid a possible AFD. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 12:19, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
I just sent an email to the CASSI people to see if they have an API that supports CODEN queries directly. Hopefully they do, and we can update our infoboxes to give links of the form http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp?coden=PHRPA6 that would land us to the intended target [9].
I'll keep the project posted. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:58, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Should Category:Bilingual journals be created? Note that Category:Bilingual newspapers already exists. Everymorning (talk) 21:25, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
Your feedback would be appreciated. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:28, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
E.g., should we do like this Talk:Astrophysical Journal or as in Talk:PNAS instead? fgnievinski ( talk) 19:13, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
I just stumbled upon this website http://miar.ub.edu/, and I have to say it's a wonderful resource, especially when it comes to looking up indexing information (searching by ISSN works best I find). Journals don't always list it, but there's a good chance it'll be on here! Not sure how complete it is, but I wish I had known about it much earlier. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 05:38, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
The draft Draft:Ecancermedicalscience is eligible to be deleted soon because it hasn't been edited in 6 months. I would appreciate it if other members of this WikiProject could weigh in on whether they think it meets NJOURNALS. Everymorning (talk) 22:11, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
Both of this have 'Medicine' for ISO 4. That can't be right, is it? I've seen "Medicine (Baltimore)" used for one those. Would that make "Medicine (Amsterdam)" for the other? Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:59, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Another editor created Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing. I am not sure that the journal is notable. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 05:16, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Reed Elsevier was renamed: Talk:RELX/Archives/2015#Two articles about the same company?. Ideally the article would have been just renamed. Not sure how to proceed. Please weigh in. Thanks. fgnievinski ( talk) 03:08, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
Despite the long-standing consensus in this project that academic journals cannot (and hence should not) be reliably categorized as being published in a certain country (and even if this can be determined, this fact not being a defining characteristic of a journal), several categories named "Academic journals published in Foo country" are now around after a "no consensus" closure of the respective CfDs. I propose adding a recommendation to our journal writing guide to state that the project members do not recommend adding such categories to journal articles. Of course, we can not recommend removing such cats (that would be disruptive after the decision at CfD), but we certainly can recommend not to add them. After an appropriate amount of time has passed, we should take these cats to CfD again. -- Randykitty ( talk) 08:23, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Biotechnological Research. Everymorning (talk) 19:17, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
A few SPA/COI editors are arguing here that this article does not need to adhere to our writing guide (notably the inclusion of lists of the editorial board and contributors), because there exist some articles on other magazines/journals that should be cleaned first. The situation has spilled over to ANI (at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#COI editing and personal attacks on Democracy & Nature and Talk:Democracy & Nature), where it has hardly received any attention except from the involved parties). Some independent knowledgeable eyes would be welcome. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randykitty ( talk • contribs) 12:14, 8 September 2015
We're having an RFC on whether to deprecate Template:Cite pmid or not. It's at Template_talk:Cite_pmid#RFC:_Should_template:cite_pmid_be_deprecated. Please comment there. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 09:05, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
Template:Cite doi allows editors to generate a citation from a digital object identifier. There is a discussion about whether to deprecate this template. Since doi's are used the sciences and this is a science WikiProject, I am inviting anyone here to comment. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:27, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Please weigh in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Magazines#title_orig field (original title, if not in English). Thanks. fgnievinski ( talk) 00:00, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
After a year or so, WP:JCW has been updated! And the people rejoiced everywhere!
I'll be compiling some Wikiproject-specific lists over the week to help us coordinate with Wikiprojects and deal with the backlog. Big thanks to @ JLaTondre: for the new run. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:07, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
I've created Category:Lists of missing journals and made User:Headbomb's lists pages within that, for ease of discoverability and linking, and so that the lists won't disappear as talk pages are archived. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:47, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:11, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
See today's deletion log, beginning with Journal of Physics and Applications. Everymorning (talk) 18:54, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Another new journal for your attention: Molecular Systems Design & Engineering is published jointly by the the Royal Society of Chemistry (where I am Wikimedian in Residence) and the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:09, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
We now have this page. Should be pretty self-explanatory, but we should also include someone on the main project page. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:33, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
This discussion may be of interest to some editors here. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 09:39, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
A new article has been created about the Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology. It has been flagged for notability concerns, so expert input would be welcomed. Cordless Larry ( talk) 20:43, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
Can someone please help me expand The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education? Seems like an important journal, but please help me find more references. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 14:39, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
The article Asia-pacific Journal of Cancer Therapeutics has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Please comment at Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(media)#Introducing_notability_criteria_for_academic_journals. I expect that this is noncontroversial and an obvious next step in confirming the usefulness of WP:NJOURNAL. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:28, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
I am the Communications Assistant at Speech-Language and Audiology Canada. Our Wikipedia page has been flagged as part of the WikiProject Academic Journals. I would like to move this page, as it is currently under our old name. The association was previously called the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, but it is now called Speech-Language and Audiology Canada. [13] Please let me know what steps I need to take to move this page. Currently, the talk page is locked for me. I believe this is because I'm not participating in the WikiProject. Any guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks.
SAC OAC ( talk) 14:52, 4 January 2016 (UTC)SAC OAC
Thank you, Cordless Larry! SAC OAC ( talk)
Since there's currently in a bug with RFD in the Article alerts, here's a notice of that discussion. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:27, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
I recently implemented (don't ask how the sausage was made) a 'citation density' (CD) column in our existing WP:JCW listings. It's defined as # of citations to the journal / # of Wikipedia pages the journal is cited in. I'm not sure if it's going to be of any use, but I figured I'd implement it to see if we have some trends. The CD seems to range between 1 (minimum possible value = every citation on a different page) and 2 for most journals, but some like Lloyd's List go as high as 45 for highly specialized articles. On the other hand ,we also have Myconet with a CD of 1, and it's cited 2740 times! Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:57, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Very quickly, doing some stats on the 1000 most popular journal (n = 1005), I found
%ile | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 95 | 99 |
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CD | 1.117 | 1.157 | 1.199 | 1.245 | 1.294 | 1.355 | 1.435 | 1.539 | 1.769 | 1.992 | 3.605 |
Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:30, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Just to let you know, the compilation has recently been updated. I've cleaned up several entries related to PNAS and PLOS ONE, so it should make the two publications easier to dealt with in the future. I cleaned up others too, but there's too many to mention at this point. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:14, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
There's a discussion concerning this website/journal(s) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine#WedMedCentral. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 23:52, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
I just complied a list of the 100 most impactful journal according to Google's H-index. The list can be found in the link above.
We are missing entries on
Additionally, we are missing dedicated article on
Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:00, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
Please comment there. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:08, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
There is a discussion here if that topic is of interest. It has been going on since Feb 26, but just wanted to make sure folks here are aware of it. fgnievinski ( talk) 20:26, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the Draft:The Dublin Review of Books? I'm not sure if it's a journal or a periodical, but I figured that it'd be worth asking here. I tried logging into my university's library to access Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, but my library's sign in is down at the moment (and oh joy, during finals week... that's going to be fun). Can someone help out with the draft? It was nominated for speedy fairly quickly after it was created and I've moved it to the draftspace. I haven't been able to get on as much this week due to finals and I just wanted to get a few eyeballs on this. I do see it mentioned in the media here and there, but it's going to need more than the brief cursory look I gave it in order to find if it'd pass GNG or NJOURNALS. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 10:01, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
The journal titled Western North American Naturalist began in the year 2000 as a continuation of Great Basin Naturalist (1939-1999), retaining volume numbering, but both titles have different ISSN, OCLC, and other identifiers (see [14] and [15]). Both titles are also distinct entities on Wikidata. Is there an ideal way to denote both, and keep coherent Wikidata links? (Wikidata doesn't seem to associate with redirects). Thanks, --Animalparty! ( talk) 19:39, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography/Science_and_academia#guidelines_about_living_scientists-- Alexmar983 ( talk) 05:00, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
I've just asked for a tagging run at WP:BOTREQ#Tagging for WP Journals. It's mostly the same as we did in the past, but feel free to comment there. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:18, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
The only participants in this Afd are up till now the proposer (me) and the article creator. More views from knowledgeable editors are urgently needed. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 15:01, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello,
I think this one belongs to you.
From January 2016 onward, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences is published by Elsevier and not by Wiley anymore. You can find the announcement here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1520-6017. You can find the new website here: http://www.jpharmsci.org/. Most of the articles are also free, and you don't have to go to ScienceDirect to get them.
In the Wikipedia article, I already changed the links in the box and under the external links. You could work on the rest of the article.
Cheers!
Georginho ( talk) 21:23, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
There are a number of articles on NY entomological journals that have an intertwined history (some just simple renames) and that all basically consist of the same overly complicated table. See discussion here: Talk:Entomologica Americana (New York Entomological Society). Input from knowledgeable editors is welcome. -- Randykitty ( talk) 14:15, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi; can I add the title of a new open access journal to the 'Ubiquity Press academic journals category' if it does not have an article? The journal is called 'Citizen Science: Theory and Practice'. Richard Nowell ( talk) 00:05, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
FYI, as of May 25, Jeremy Berg named new "Science" editor-in-chief --->( link here)<--- ---- Steve Quinn ( talk) 21:13, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
According to [16] (see Table 1, p.2), it seems of all the metrics out there, WP:JCW/Popular1 seems to closely mirror PageRank sorting, especially if you include abbreviations and alternate spellings for our ranking.
An interesting factoid, I thought. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:33, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
I started an article on Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, a medical journal first published in 1887 or 1888. Ulrich's says that it is peer-reviewed. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 05:01, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
This journal is at AFD. More input of knowledgeable editors is welcome ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Modern phytomorphology). Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 15:50, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
Anybody here ever heard of "paid-inclusion open access journals"?? I just discovered that we have a cat for that. The description on its talk page seems rather POV/OR to me. -- Randykitty ( talk) 22:46, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Currently JAMA redirects to JAMA (journal), but given that Jama is a disambiguation page, is this a good idea? Should JAMA redirect to Jama instead? Would like to hear other editors' opinions on this. Everymorning (talk) 22:42, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
I am inviting participants in WikiProject Academic Journals to WikiConference North America to be held in San Diego Friday to Monday 7-10 October. Here are further details:
Discussion about the conference on-wiki could happen at meta:WikiConference North America.
I am one of the organizers for this event. If anyone has questions or comments, then conversation can happen here at this WikiProject also. I am advocating for topics related to the use of academic journals in Wikipedia to be well represented at this event. If any participants at this WikiProject wants to talk by video about the conference, I am available to meet by video chat if you email me. I might, for example, support anyone in making a presentation submission if you are unfamiliar with the wiki conference format. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:09, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
There are currently several AfD and CfD debates going on that really could need some input from knowledgeable editors. In one it is argued that inclusion of a journal in GScholar makes it notable, provided the journal is peer-reviewed. I would be interested to hear the opinions of editors here on this to see whether this reflects community consensus. A list of the different XfDs is on the main page of this project. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 09:35, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
I've just created the Flexal virus article from a CC-BY 3.0 paper published in Archives of Clinical Microbiology, a relatively recently created open-access journal: is it suitable as a WP:RS for this sort of article? On a wider topic, what would be the best way to check journal reputation for recently-created online journals? Thanks, -- The Anome ( talk) 11:37, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
This project's feedback would be appreciated in this discussion, as this could greatly (and positively) affect biological citations! Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:53, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
Just created this. Feel free to expand on it. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:52, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
I wanted to seek the opinion of other members of this project as to whether this edit was acceptable. Everymorning (talk) 01:00, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
An editor at this AfD has brought to my attention the fact that WP:NJournals in fact does not require inclusion in databases only counts for notability if that database if selective. Either this was overlooked when HJournals was written, or it has been edited out without anybody noticing. I'm currently traveling and cannot look into this, so I'm posting here so that perhaps other interested editors can have a look. I'll cross-post to the talk page of NJournals. -- Randykitty ( talk) 22:27, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
Pulsus Group recently was acquired by OMICS and since then there ahs been a lot of activity at this article. I've undone most proposed changes (not all), but I'd appreciate some fresh eyes to see whether I'm not being unreasonably strict. Thanks! -- Randykitty ( talk) 14:21, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
I hope it is right forum for discussion. Pulsus Group and Future Medicine are independent publishers and different business models, we should not combine with OMICS sources . As you know OMICS Publishing Group is a negative attack article. Jessie1979 ( talk) 07:36, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:Citing sources#Journal citation with templates should be preferred for a discussion on modifying the provisions of Wikipedia:Citing sources, specifically section WP:CITEHOW, to allow and encourage journal citations using citation templates even if an article already uses a consistent system without templates. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 07:51, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
See
Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:49, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
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There has been some edit warring going on at Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing regarding how the journal and its editors should be described. Additional eyes over there would be appreciated. Everymorning (talk) 15:40, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
FYI, participants in this WikiProject may be interested in the ongoing MFD discussion for WP:NJOURNALS, which can be found at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Notability (academic journals). Best, -- Notecardforfree ( talk) 19:13, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
Both of these articles could use some extra eyes. Be warned that the discussion at Ufahamu is especially acrimonious. -- Randykitty ( talk) 10:29, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
There are lots of discussion concerning WP:NJOURNALS, including proposed changes to it, many of which would substantially change the longstanding wording. Please comment there. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:15, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Jeffrey Beall's blog about predatory publishing has disappeared in its entirety. According to this, this is due to a decision by Beall himself, not hacking or such. Our problem is that posts on Beall's blog ( http://scholarlyoa.com/), especially his lists of predatory journals, publishers, and impact ranking services (but also individual blog posts), are the main sources (sometimes the only ones) that provide criticism in our articles on some of these predatory publishers/journals. All those links are currently dead (and in the past two days, some editors already started removing them!) I would expect that most content can still be found on the WayBack machine, so it is urgent that all these references get rescued by adding archive-url parameters to them. I'm up till my ears in work in RL, so all help is welcome! Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 09:29, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
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The WikiJournal of Medicine is a free, peer reviewed academic journal which aims to provide a new mechanism for ensuring the accuracy of Wikipedia's biomedical content. We started it as a way of bridging the Wikipedia-academia gap. [1] It is also part of a WikiJournal User Group with other WikiJournals under development. [2] The journal is still starting out and not yet well known, so we are advertising ourselves to WikiProjects that might be interested. |
We hope that an academic journal format may also encourage non-Wikipedians to contribute who would otherwise not. Therefore, please consider:
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I've had an idea for WP:JCW and facilitate our work. Please comment there. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 23:23, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
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I was thinking recently how there is no one, universal lists of journals in any discipline, and where we (Wikipedia in general and this WikiProject in particular) fit into this. Here are my thoughts:
I am thinking I could start improving a list of journals in my field ( list of sociology journals) but I would appreciate comments regarding how a good list in our field, one that good aim for a WP:FAL status eventually, should look like. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:05, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I posted a query on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Academic Journals/Writing guide, maybe it would have been better if I had posted it here. Please let me know if you have any thoughts! Thanks TheBigPikachu ( talk) 18:40, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
I will be making (assuming my proposal is accepted) a presentation on JCW at Wikimania 2017, in Montreal.
If you are interested in attending, please sign up! Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 12:56, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
A user requested review at Draft:Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences. I thought that I would notify this board. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:27, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Is Draft:Image Analysis & Stereology notable? Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 11:30, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
For those who have not yet run across it, there is an
initative abroad to open up citation data, with WMF involvement, tied to the
OpenCitations initiative. As this is now approaching the point where half of all academic publications have released citations under CC0, it may be about time to capture and display status for publications in an {{
Infobox Journal}} parameter |opencitations=
. This could be bot-populated fairly easily (see
the FAQ for more.) Comments?
LeadSongDog
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Please comment at Talk:philoSOPHIA. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 11:46, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
Please comment. This will possibly affect our writing guide at WP:JWG. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 04:39, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
I've added a section on how to deal with landmark papers to the guide. Feel free to refine the language. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 17:10, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
Would an attempt to write an article about the African Journal of Disability - http://www.ajod.org - be worthwhile or a waste of time? Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 15:08, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Although perhaps only tangential relevant to this project, people here might be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stanley Aronowitz bibliography, which bears on lists of academic books and journal articles. -- Randykitty ( talk) 21:17, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
Citation management tool Zotero now has two Wikidata translators. Not only does it read metadata from Wikidata items about works, so you can add them to your Zotero library, but it can export metadata in a format understood by QuickStatements, enabling users to more easily create Wikidata items about the works already in their Zotero libraries. Since Zotero can already read metadata about works from other websites, or data files such as BibTeX and COinS, it can now be used as an intermediary to import that data. See d:Wikidata:Zotero. The translator was developed at the recent WikiCite event in Vienna. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:06, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
This AfD was closed. I have requested a relist, so that editors knowledgeable about academic journals also can participate. -- Randykitty ( talk) 11:04, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
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A paid editor would like to add to the Allen Meadors article that he is an associate editor of a journal called Frontiers in Public Health. See the discussion here. It seems that the journal has 3,279 editors(!), 702 of whom are associate editors. Is it worth mentioning such a positon in a biographical article, given that the journal has so many editors? It hardly sounds like a selective position. Cordless Larry ( talk) 21:23, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
A request for advice/guidance: my research field has recently seen the appearance of two new journals, the Journal of Combinatorial Algebra (published by the European Mathematical Society; indexed in MathSciNet; three issues have appeared) and Algebraic Combinatorics (to be published by the Centre Mersenne; no issues have yet appeared, but it has been the subject of an article in Inside Higher Ed). Both are obviously reputable institutions. I'm not a regular editor of Wikipedia articles about journals; do these (yet) meet the basic notability requirements for Wikipedia? If not, what's the usual time-frame for notability in this kind of situation?
Thanks, JBL ( talk) 20:25, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
From many discussions at Wikimania, myself, DGG, and several others felt this infobox was a prime candidate for conversion to Wikidata. I've started a discussion at the link above. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 01:32, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
Team is there a Manual of Style for Academic Journals? Can this be listed in main page. Also please advise if Infobox for Journals be added to the project page.-- Wikishagnik ( talk) 13:55, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
If you have comments, please make them. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 16:26, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
Please participate in this discussion. This is related to the creation of a magazine-equivalent to WP:JCW. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 00:04, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
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"Education" and "Educational" don't show in the LTWA lookup. I've seen them both abbreviate to "Edu." and "Educ."—not sure whether/when it's consistent. Please {{ ping}} if you can help. czar 18:24, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
In the LTWA lookup, "medical" corresponds to "méd." with the accent. Is this correct? Medical Teacher would be "Méd. Teach."? czar 19:23, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Could someone please review Draft:Romanian Journal of History and International Studies? The draft says the journal is peer-reviewed, but I cannot tell whether it is notable. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 03:33, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Would it be okay if you guys put this predatory journal list on the front page of your project, asking contributors to check the publisher of an academic journal against this list? It may be useful for people who use academic journals as sources and/or write about them. User:Drmies gave me a heads up on this page. WhisperToMe ( talk) 18:56, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
Could someone (@ DGG:/@ Randykitty:?) look up the impact factors for
And update the articles accordingly? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 13:54, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
|w&l-impact=
/|w&l-year=
for that information than putting it in the |impact=
field, to make it clear this is a W&L metric, rather than the
impact factor.
Headbomb {
t ·
c ·
p ·
b} 11:54, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
Is there a guide to handling Italian titles? The English equivalents for Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica are abbreviated, but no dice in the LTWA czar 21:03, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
"Its" isn't an article or conjunction—should it be included in the journal's ISO 4? czar 01:26, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
I just created Knowledge-Based Systems (journal), and was confused about what the ISO abbreviation for its title is. The automated tool that now is linked to at the top of new articles says it should be Knowledge-Based Syst. (I guess), but the NLM catalog entry says it should be Knowl. Based Syst. Which one is right? Everymorning (talk) 03:19, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
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BioScience has been languishing for years with no infobox or independent sources. Someone should really fix that (I'd do it myself but I'm sick of doing it for lots of other journals). Jinkinson talk to me 01:17, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I have started a discussion about the categorization of nursing journals here and the input of interested editors is welcome. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 11:22, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I am having trouble finding the impact factor for some T&F journals. However, I have discovered a PDF for 2013 impact factors and other information. Of course, this is still the 2012 impact factors.
And, here is the 2012 edition of this PDF - [1]. --- Steve Quinn ( talk) 06:33, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
I believe that our dab page Historia is missing fr:Historia (revue), which is Historia (Q3138323), claiming a 1909 year of commencement. The French Wikipedia page uses ISSN 0998-0091, added back in 2006 [2].
As far as I can see, that ISSN 0998-0091 is wrong, and it is allocated to a book series by the same/similar name published from Perpignan, France. bibliothèque de l'Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (Q16338024)'s record calls it Collection Col.leccio Historia, and Stanford SearchWorks has two records which include that ISSN.
There is also Historia (Q15750593), which is included in the ERA journal list (as a 'C' ranked journal in 2010), and whose ISSNs given are 1270-0835 and 1625-6581, which report it was published by Éditions Tallandier (Q3237900), 1956-, 1995- and 2000- in various records, with one note that says "Mensuel. / Fait suite à [continues]: Historia. Historama." and the another also mentions ISSN 0018-2281 and ISSN 1283-453X. This and that say it commenced in June 1955. This has the very informative note: "Suite de : Historia, Historama. = ISSN 1255-8230 qui est une fusion de : Historia (1956) = ISSN 0018-2281 et de Historama, Histoire magazine = ISSN 0752-3408. - A comme supplément(s) : Le Point Historia = ISSN 1969-9859" [Continues Historia, Historama. ISSN 1255-8230, which was a merge of Historia (1956) ISSN 0018-2281 and Historama, Histoire magazine ISSN 0752-3408. Supplement blah blah ]. It seems the merge happened around 1995.
After consulting this, I am basicly ready to conclude that Historia (Q3138323) = Historia (Q15750593), it has had many different names over its long history, and someone needs to write it up , as the French article isnt very informative.
One issue is that Historia (Q3138323) is listed as published by Sophia Publications (Q16336113), where as Historia (Q15750593) is published by Éditions Tallandier (Q3237900). According to fr:Artémis (holding) and [3], they are both controlled by the Pinault family. My guess is Sophia was created during a restructure of Tallandier Éditions. John Vandenberg ( chat) 08:32, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
This newspaper is at AFD. Although not an academic journal, the AFD discussion centers (among other things) on the possible use of this newspaper as an academic source, so this may be of interest to some editors here. -- Randykitty ( talk) 13:33, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
There's a discussion over the proper name for the category Philatelic journals editors here may be interested in. -- Randykitty ( talk) 19:16, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
If one or more of you would take a look at Psychological Injury and Law (Journal) I would greatly appreciate it. I am on the Board of Directors of the professional society that sponsors the journal and I am an occasional editor and one-time author in the journal. I therefore tried to be extra careful about WP:NPOV. If you see anything that looks slanted, biased, promotional, etc., please have at it! Many thanks - Mark D Worthen PsyD 17:07, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Markworthen:, I have created Psychological Injury and Law (Q16736827) in Wikidata, and added some of the information which was removed from the Wikipedia article, where possible. It is a good place to add details for things which do not yet have a Wikipedia article, such as the editor, organisation, etc, and it is also OK to all of the main editors, as each has a ' rank'. It is also a good place to collect the details where a conflict of interest is less burdensome, as you cant easily introduce bias in data, and then others can construct the prose around those facts free of suggestion from the person with the COI. Othertimes it is not an option to store details in Wikidata. e.g. impact factors are probably not able to be put into Wikidata - see d:Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive/2014/Properties/1; coverage in bibliographic databases was rejected at d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative_work#indexed in, etc. Like others here, I appreciate you notifying this WikiProject about your COI with the topic. Hopefully you create more articles about journals in your discipline area. Here are 'missing' English Wikipedia articles for periodicals, where we have an article in German Wikipedia, in French Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia, or Russian Wikipedia ;-) John Vandenberg ( chat) 09:35, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
In order to migrate data from infoboxes to Wikidata, I need to avoid migrating template:infobox journal data when the article is about a different thing. As a result, my scripts now have a rule that if the infobox is more than 200 characters from beginning of the page content, I assume the infobox should be ignored. Below is a list of all articles with {{ infobox journal}} that not on a 'journal' article.
Some of those might be able to be split to separate articles about only the journal, but in many cases the journal and society are not both separately notable. John Vandenberg ( chat) 18:06, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Can anybody cleanup this AfC draft before we send it into Main? I'd appreciate a check of the impact factor (best I could do was ResearchGate) and indexing (only Elsevier, really?) as well as the content (which is underreferenced and a bit peacocky). Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 19:51, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Those of you involved in writing for, editing, or publishing journals may be interested in
ORCID. ORCID is an open system of identifiers for people - particularly researchers and the authors of academic papers; but also contributors to other works, not least Wikipedia editors. ORCIDs are a bit like ISBNs for books or DOIs for papers. You can register for one, free, at
http://orcid.org As well as including your ORCID in any works to which you contribute, you can include it in your user page using {{
Authority control}} thus: {{Authority control|ORCID=0000-0001-5882-6823}}
(that template can also include other identifies, such as VIAF and LCCN - there's an example on my user page). ORCID identifiers can also be added to biographical articles, either directly or via Wikidata.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 12:22, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
An original new way of making people think you're a respectable journal: look for a respectable title that folded long ago and claim you're the continuation and tht your new journal actually was established back in the 50s... -- Randykitty ( talk) 12:08, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
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I created an article on Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine. The impact factor seems low, but the journal seems respectable enough. If anyone can improve the article, that would be appreciated. I first encountered the journal as a reference for Wobbly hedgehog syndrome. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 04:14, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
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I have started a discussion on the application of notability guidelines to academic journals at the Village Pump here. Opinions are welcome. -- Randykitty ( talk) 17:40, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Could other editors look at Journal of International Translational Medicine? I am not sure that it is notable. I converted another editor's speedy to a prod to allow time for others to look at the article. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 16:13, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
I accepted Journal of Financial Studies. I think it's notable, but if you feel it isn't, please tag the article accordingly. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 23:03, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
The new impact factors are online (if you have access to the JCR, but publishers usually update their websites quite rapidly). Please also update any references when updating IFs: many articles have the IF not only in the infobox, but also in the text. The publication year needs to be changed to 2014, the title to "2013 JCR". Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 07:36, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
There's an article to be written here. I've started it, but it could be expanded to a much better article, and likely get a WP:DYK from it if we work fast enough. Not sure about how feasible it is to take to GA (or even FA status), but this one has more potential than a lot of things under the umbrella of WP:JOURNALS. Just dropping by to let you know I'm planning on working on this one (plus member journals) over the next few days. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:27, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
If you could please weigh in here. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 13:25, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
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Could other editors please look at International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets? I am not sure that the journal is notable. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 23:42, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
Many reputable organizations publish a journal of minor influence which do not meet even WP:NJOURNALS. How would anyone feel about them existing as categorized redirects to the organization's Wikipedia article?
Consider the Faculty Dental Journal of the Faculty of Dental Surgery. This organization is an influential authority on dental practices. This journal is their journal, and I presume it publishes excellent boring information which never will be critiqued in other third party sources and therefore will not meet Wikipedia's inclusion criteria.
Could the article on this journal persist as a redirect to the organization's article, but be categorized in Category:Dentistry journals? I presume that this journal is at least worth mentioning in that organization's article, and it probably could be listed in an article called "List of dentistry journals", but I agree it does not meet Wikipedia's inclusion criteria. However, it would be more useful to categorize it then mention it in odd places, yet categorization only happens for items with their own Wikipedia page. That page can be a redirect and still get the categorization.
Randykitty, any thoughts? You PROD'd the page. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:11, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
I have been informed on my talk page, essentially the images I placed on series of articles have been replaced. These have become orphaned non-free images: File:ISI Web of knowledge logo.jpg; File:Search result from ISI Web of Knowledge image.jpg; and File:Web of science and web of knowledge.gif.
It may be that these images are dated. However, interestingly, I did a Google search for Web of Knowledge. There are almost no hits in the first 30 slots for Web of Knowledge. There are only links to Web of Science. Does anyone know if Web of Knowledge still exists? If not then we might need to do some rewriting on Web of Knowledge and Web of Science articles. Also, I won't have time to work on these until December. Sorry. --- Steve Quinn ( talk) 05:11, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
OK. I may have found an answer on a Thomson Reuters' WoS page ( click on link here) -- "You asked for a more intuitive search experience. And on January 12th, we unveiled an easier and more streamlined way for you to navigate our carefully curated citation index. We have improved your user experience, and renamed it. The Web of Knowledge — as you know it — is now simply the Web of Science" -- Steve Quinn ( talk) 06:22, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
Also, I placed the first image mentioned above back into the article for historical purposes. It is now near the bottom of the Web of Knowledge article. --- Steve Quinn ( talk) 06:22, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
Could someone please review this edit to Crossings (journal)? I believe that library and society sources are appropriate for establishing #1 Wikipedia:Notability_(academic_journals). If the sources I have added are not appropriate (and I agree that they're minimal), let's either find better ones or PROD this article as non-notable.
I came across this in the course of updating Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academic_Journals/List_of_missing_journals/A-C#C and need some help to avoid edit warring. Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 08:54, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 09:03, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
There's a discussion on the talk page of this journal article about the appropriateness of including raw data on the numbers of items published each year. Comments from knowledgeable editors here are welcome. -- Randykitty ( talk) 22:38, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
The discussion is here: Wikipedia_talk:Identifying_reliable_sources_(medicine)#Impact_factor_of_journals_as_the_determining_factor_in_weight Comments would be appreciated by those who know a lot about this issue. Jinkinson talk to me 02:12, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
please weigh in here: Template talk:Infobox journal#Eigenfactor?. Fgnievinski ( talk) 03:52, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
pls weigh in here: Talk:Impact_factor#rename to Impact Factor (capitalized). Fgnievinski ( talk) 04:02, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
I have just created Category:Academic journals published in the United Kingdom, Category:Academic journals published in the United States, and the parent category Category:Academic journals by country of publication. Please help to deploy them, and populate the latter with sub-categories for other countries. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:18, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
Here's another interesting example: Acta Neurologica Belgica. It is the official journal of 8 (eight!) Belgian societies, but published by Springer Science+Business Media, a German company. Does that make it a German journal? No, wait, it's website says that is is published by Springer Milan, so it's an Italian journal... -- Randykitty ( talk) 17:19, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
isn't it time we start categorizing articles based on the importance for this project? plenty other projects already do so. Fgnievinski ( talk) 02:36, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Please see here: Talk:Academia#WikiProject Academia?. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 02:11, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Discussion is here. Contributions thereto would be appreciated. Everymorning talk to me 00:20, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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Discussion is here. I'm inclined to agree w/nom since it's not indexed in any of the really important databases and has no IF, but I'm not sure, which is why I haven't !voted. Everymorning talk to me 03:03, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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This is a notice about Category:Academic Journals articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock ( talk) 18:05, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Please beware, see: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/12/11/fake-isi-aims-to-trick-the-scholarly-community/ -- Randykitty ( talk) 09:22, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
On Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/In_the_Sea_of_Sterile_Mountains:_The_Chinese_in_British_Columbia there is the question on whether the following two academic journals have notability:
And should publications from these journals (book reviews) count towards the notability of the book? WhisperToMe ( talk) 15:00, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Immunome Research. Discussion would be appreciated. Everymorning talk 23:57, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
The Royal Society of Chemistry (where I'm employed as Wikimedian in Residence, to declare my interest) have a new journal: Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology [5], should anyone want to start an article. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:24, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Pls see: Template_talk:Infobox_journal#Sponsor_field. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 06:12, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Category_talk:Academic_journals_published_by_university_presses#University presses or just universities?. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 06:14, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls help populate Category:Academic journals published by museums. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 06:21, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls see: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_January_8#Category:Open_content_publishing_companies. Fgnievinski ( talk) 06:29, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Category_talk:Creative_Commons-licensed_journals#Non-diffusing subcategory of category open access journals. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 06:30, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls help populate Category:Continuous journals. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 06:53, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Talk:University_press#Most -- all? -- are nonprofit. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 08:12, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
I have these two H-Net reviews of books:
Do they pass WP:RS for use as sources about the respective books? WhisperToMe ( talk) 16:32, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Medical journal redirects to Public health journal which has a {{ For}} template pointing to Medical literature § Journals. That seems backward to me. - - MrBill3 ( talk) 08:53, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Please help diffuse Category:Academic journals edited by students. Maybe a bot can move only members of Category:Law journals and of its child subcats? Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 01:51, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Including independent research institutes, learned societies, museums, the government, universities; please help populate subcats of Category:Academic journals published by non-profit publishers. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 01:56, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Template talk:Infobox journal#Categories. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 15:55, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
E.g., should Category:IEEE academic journals and Category:Oxford University Press academic journals appear in Category:Academic journals by publisher TOO, or ONLY in Category:Academic journals published by learned societies respectively Category:Academic journals published by university presses? Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 15:34, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
thus also not journals (see
serials and periodicals for background). e.g.,
AIP Conference Proceedings,
Proceedings of SPIE, and possibly
Journal of Physics: Conference Series (also known as IOP Conference Series). do we need an {{
infobox proceedings}}
?
Fgnievinski (
talk) 03:45, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
I noticed that
Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale is a member of multiple language categories: English-language journals, French-language journals, Chinese-language journals. I was going to correct that, replacing the three memberships with a single one in
Category:Multilingual journals, but I think that change would lose valuable information. Nowadays, very few journals don't accept contributions in English in addition to their primary language, so I suspect many entries in individual language categories are similarly misplaced and should in principle go in Multilingual journals. If we enforce the current categorization scheme, we'll end up basically with two very large sub-cats in
Category:Academic journals by language,
Category:English-language journals and Multilingual journals. That wouldn't be very useful. Can we make Multilingual journals a non-diffusing sub-category of Academic journals by language? I.e., I'd like to insert {{
Non-diffusing parent category|Multilingual journals}}
in
Category:Academic journals by language, and {{
Non-diffusing subcategory|Academic journals by language|journals}}
in
Category:Multilingual journals.
See Wikipedia:Categorization#Non-diffusing subcategories for details. Fgnievinski ( talk) 02:55, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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There's a discussion at Talk:Education in Chemistry about whether or not information about the availability of a mobile app is encyclopedic or promotional and should be included in our articles on journals and magazines. More input is welcome. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 08:15, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Talk:List of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers publications#Magazines vs. journals. Thx. Fgnievinski ( talk) 01:46, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Does the project have any guidance on the notability of academic societies? I recently de-prodded Florida Philosophical Association, which was established in 1955 and is associated with what looks to be a respectable e-journal ( Florida Philosophical Review), and on reflection would like a second opinion on its notability. Espresso Addict ( talk) 15:49, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
I found three so far: Norwegian, Brazilian, and South African; let me know if you're aware of others. It might help in gauging journal notability. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 19:02, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 March 3#Category:Anesthesiology and palliative medicine journals. Everymorning talk 02:29, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Is this journal notable? It's been declined twice already. However, this says the journal is indexed in Pubmed/Medline, so it seems like it might pass WP:NJOURNALS. What do others think? Everymorning talk 03:11, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi. A debate is happening here about how the content of an article published in Annals of Human Genetics should be described. I'm saying we should use "academic research" to describe it, whereas another editor is suggesting "official legal work". Can we get some input on this from people who are familiar with debates about journals? Cordless Larry ( talk) 08:02, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Should this category, which currently contains a couple nephrology journals, be split into the category that already exists and Category:Nephrology journals as well? Or is it too difficult to draw a line between these two disciplines? Everymorning talk 02:27, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi. There's a request for comment here on the use of academic journal articles to support the addition of material to an article, and whether the material breaches WP:REDFLAG and WP:NEOLOGISM. Input from those with expertise on academic sources would be welcome. Cordless Larry ( talk) 10:02, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Please see this AFC Help Desk topic where a new contributor needs help writing a new article about a scientific journal. Thanks Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 09:40, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Please see Draft:Angelicum an article about a theology journal, the author is having difficulty demonstrating notability. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 15:40, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
This AFD may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Everymorning talk 14:13, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
An IP is trying to add some text to the article impact factor about "partial" IFs. I've never heard about this, although they just posted on my talk page two instances (both blog posts, albeit from a reputable organization and publisher) where this expression was used. Nevertheless, I am not convinced that we should include this in the article. Any opinions from other editors here are welcome. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 17:05, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
This AFD may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Everymorning talk 10:45, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Is there a bot already that helps with any of these, or could?
LeadSongDog come howl! 02:50, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
LeadSongDog come howl! 15:26, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Should Wikipedia honor the journal title capitalization style preferred by its publisher? E.g., Chest is referred to consistently as CHEST [8]. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 15:36, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
ISO Abbreviation: Thorac Surg Clin Title: Thoracic surgery clinics As a general thing, publishers like their own titles to be in a higher-case form than we would use, as it serves their commercial purposes. Similarly, we do not preserve the all-caps routinely found in the headlines of New York Times articles when we cite them. The allcaps "MAN BITES DOG" would normally become sentencecase "Man bites dog" or at most titlecase "Man Bites Dog". LeadSongDog come howl! 16:05, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philately#Philatelic magazines vs. Philatelic journals that may be of interest to participants in this project. -- Randykitty ( talk) 12:58, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
pls see Talk:Scholarly peer review/Draft ( discussions). Fgnievinski ( talk) 14:25, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
pls see Talk:Review journal#merge. thx Fgnievinski ( talk) 15:17, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. Everymorning talk 16:32, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Talk:Law review#Categorizing peer reviewed or not. Fgnievinski ( talk) 15:41, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
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Although strictly outside the scope of this wiki-project, I thought some of you could weigh in here: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_June_24#Category:Science_books. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 00:36, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
It looks like this article has become a target for stealth-spammers who have added information about numerous journals to the "Publishing case reports" section. This doesn't seem very relevant and I think it should be trimmed considerably. Others' thoughts? Everymorning talk 13:27, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Is there an infobox for academic journal articles? —Мандичка YO 😜 06:33, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Category:Academic journals edited by students seems to have a lot of magazines -- please help weed out. The ones that are peer-reviewed, most seem to fail the notability test (certainly in terms of indexing in selective bibliographic databases). Fgnievinski ( talk) 03:57, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
In case you're familiar with Category:Recent changes boxes (see, e.g., Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Lists of pages), I've started Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academic_Journals/Lists_of_pages/All_pages, based on Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Lists of pages and its sub-pages. The selection of wikilinks listed in those sub-pages probably needs to be fine grained, by namespace (categories only, articles, etc.). Another idea is to have sub-pages split by subject area (e.g., Category:Physics journals, Category:Medical journals), in which case we'd need a bot to list all the pages in branch up to a certain depth. Fgnievinski ( talk) 05:31, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
{{
Recent changes in Academic Journals}}
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List overview · Updated: 2016-12-02 (articles) · This box: |
Done! Enjoy! Put it on your userpage:
{{
Recent changes in Academic Journals}}
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DePiep (
talk) 23:13, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Academic Journals/List of untagged articles. As per Wikipedia:Bot requests#Academic journals may lack WPJournals template in their talk pages, "The category tree looks good for requesting the template be added. Note that some of the articles do not have talk pages." I think except for Category:Academic journal editors, the rest could be tagged by a bot; class=unsorted by default? Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 20:42, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
Pls see Talk:Hijacked journal#Articles about each hijacked journal?. Fgnievinski ( talk) 23:39, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
See Talk:List_of_lists_of_academic_journals#Requested_move_21_July_2015. Would appreciate it if knowledgable editors would weigh in there. Everymorning talk 15:44, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
I believe this one could have a great DYK (e.g. DYK that... PHR was established by the US Surgeon General John Maynard Woodworth according to the National Quarantine Act of 1878?), but the prose section is under the 1,500 bytes requirements. Help with the expansion would be appreciated. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:05, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
In April of this year, someone created Category:Nephrology journals. I wanted to know if other contributors to this wikiproject thought this discipline was well-defined enough to warrant its own category. Previously Randykitty said that "Urology and nephrology are really closely intertwined, so it may be difficult to categorize some journals if we split this cat [i.e. the "urology journals" cat]." Everymorning (talk) 22:29, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Would some of you please help me create Rhetoric & Public Affairs? I'd like it to be strong enough to avoid a possible AFD. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 12:19, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
I just sent an email to the CASSI people to see if they have an API that supports CODEN queries directly. Hopefully they do, and we can update our infoboxes to give links of the form http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp?coden=PHRPA6 that would land us to the intended target [9].
I'll keep the project posted. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:58, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Should Category:Bilingual journals be created? Note that Category:Bilingual newspapers already exists. Everymorning (talk) 21:25, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
Your feedback would be appreciated. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:28, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
E.g., should we do like this Talk:Astrophysical Journal or as in Talk:PNAS instead? fgnievinski ( talk) 19:13, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
I just stumbled upon this website http://miar.ub.edu/, and I have to say it's a wonderful resource, especially when it comes to looking up indexing information (searching by ISSN works best I find). Journals don't always list it, but there's a good chance it'll be on here! Not sure how complete it is, but I wish I had known about it much earlier. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 05:38, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
The draft Draft:Ecancermedicalscience is eligible to be deleted soon because it hasn't been edited in 6 months. I would appreciate it if other members of this WikiProject could weigh in on whether they think it meets NJOURNALS. Everymorning (talk) 22:11, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
Both of this have 'Medicine' for ISO 4. That can't be right, is it? I've seen "Medicine (Baltimore)" used for one those. Would that make "Medicine (Amsterdam)" for the other? Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:59, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Another editor created Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing. I am not sure that the journal is notable. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 05:16, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Reed Elsevier was renamed: Talk:RELX/Archives/2015#Two articles about the same company?. Ideally the article would have been just renamed. Not sure how to proceed. Please weigh in. Thanks. fgnievinski ( talk) 03:08, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
Despite the long-standing consensus in this project that academic journals cannot (and hence should not) be reliably categorized as being published in a certain country (and even if this can be determined, this fact not being a defining characteristic of a journal), several categories named "Academic journals published in Foo country" are now around after a "no consensus" closure of the respective CfDs. I propose adding a recommendation to our journal writing guide to state that the project members do not recommend adding such categories to journal articles. Of course, we can not recommend removing such cats (that would be disruptive after the decision at CfD), but we certainly can recommend not to add them. After an appropriate amount of time has passed, we should take these cats to CfD again. -- Randykitty ( talk) 08:23, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Biotechnological Research. Everymorning (talk) 19:17, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
A few SPA/COI editors are arguing here that this article does not need to adhere to our writing guide (notably the inclusion of lists of the editorial board and contributors), because there exist some articles on other magazines/journals that should be cleaned first. The situation has spilled over to ANI (at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#COI editing and personal attacks on Democracy & Nature and Talk:Democracy & Nature), where it has hardly received any attention except from the involved parties). Some independent knowledgeable eyes would be welcome. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randykitty ( talk • contribs) 12:14, 8 September 2015
We're having an RFC on whether to deprecate Template:Cite pmid or not. It's at Template_talk:Cite_pmid#RFC:_Should_template:cite_pmid_be_deprecated. Please comment there. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 09:05, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
Template:Cite doi allows editors to generate a citation from a digital object identifier. There is a discussion about whether to deprecate this template. Since doi's are used the sciences and this is a science WikiProject, I am inviting anyone here to comment. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:27, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Please weigh in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Magazines#title_orig field (original title, if not in English). Thanks. fgnievinski ( talk) 00:00, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
After a year or so, WP:JCW has been updated! And the people rejoiced everywhere!
I'll be compiling some Wikiproject-specific lists over the week to help us coordinate with Wikiprojects and deal with the backlog. Big thanks to @ JLaTondre: for the new run. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:07, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
I've created Category:Lists of missing journals and made User:Headbomb's lists pages within that, for ease of discoverability and linking, and so that the lists won't disappear as talk pages are archived. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:47, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:11, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
See today's deletion log, beginning with Journal of Physics and Applications. Everymorning (talk) 18:54, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Another new journal for your attention: Molecular Systems Design & Engineering is published jointly by the the Royal Society of Chemistry (where I am Wikimedian in Residence) and the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:09, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
We now have this page. Should be pretty self-explanatory, but we should also include someone on the main project page. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:33, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
This discussion may be of interest to some editors here. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 09:39, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
A new article has been created about the Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology. It has been flagged for notability concerns, so expert input would be welcomed. Cordless Larry ( talk) 20:43, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
Can someone please help me expand The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education? Seems like an important journal, but please help me find more references. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 14:39, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
The article Asia-pacific Journal of Cancer Therapeutics has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Please comment at Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(media)#Introducing_notability_criteria_for_academic_journals. I expect that this is noncontroversial and an obvious next step in confirming the usefulness of WP:NJOURNAL. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:28, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
I am the Communications Assistant at Speech-Language and Audiology Canada. Our Wikipedia page has been flagged as part of the WikiProject Academic Journals. I would like to move this page, as it is currently under our old name. The association was previously called the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, but it is now called Speech-Language and Audiology Canada. [13] Please let me know what steps I need to take to move this page. Currently, the talk page is locked for me. I believe this is because I'm not participating in the WikiProject. Any guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks.
SAC OAC ( talk) 14:52, 4 January 2016 (UTC)SAC OAC
Thank you, Cordless Larry! SAC OAC ( talk)
Since there's currently in a bug with RFD in the Article alerts, here's a notice of that discussion. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:27, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
I recently implemented (don't ask how the sausage was made) a 'citation density' (CD) column in our existing WP:JCW listings. It's defined as # of citations to the journal / # of Wikipedia pages the journal is cited in. I'm not sure if it's going to be of any use, but I figured I'd implement it to see if we have some trends. The CD seems to range between 1 (minimum possible value = every citation on a different page) and 2 for most journals, but some like Lloyd's List go as high as 45 for highly specialized articles. On the other hand ,we also have Myconet with a CD of 1, and it's cited 2740 times! Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:57, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Very quickly, doing some stats on the 1000 most popular journal (n = 1005), I found
%ile | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 95 | 99 |
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CD | 1.117 | 1.157 | 1.199 | 1.245 | 1.294 | 1.355 | 1.435 | 1.539 | 1.769 | 1.992 | 3.605 |
Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:30, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Just to let you know, the compilation has recently been updated. I've cleaned up several entries related to PNAS and PLOS ONE, so it should make the two publications easier to dealt with in the future. I cleaned up others too, but there's too many to mention at this point. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:14, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
There's a discussion concerning this website/journal(s) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine#WedMedCentral. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 23:52, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
I just complied a list of the 100 most impactful journal according to Google's H-index. The list can be found in the link above.
We are missing entries on
Additionally, we are missing dedicated article on
Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:00, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
Please comment there. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:08, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
There is a discussion here if that topic is of interest. It has been going on since Feb 26, but just wanted to make sure folks here are aware of it. fgnievinski ( talk) 20:26, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the Draft:The Dublin Review of Books? I'm not sure if it's a journal or a periodical, but I figured that it'd be worth asking here. I tried logging into my university's library to access Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, but my library's sign in is down at the moment (and oh joy, during finals week... that's going to be fun). Can someone help out with the draft? It was nominated for speedy fairly quickly after it was created and I've moved it to the draftspace. I haven't been able to get on as much this week due to finals and I just wanted to get a few eyeballs on this. I do see it mentioned in the media here and there, but it's going to need more than the brief cursory look I gave it in order to find if it'd pass GNG or NJOURNALS. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 10:01, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
The journal titled Western North American Naturalist began in the year 2000 as a continuation of Great Basin Naturalist (1939-1999), retaining volume numbering, but both titles have different ISSN, OCLC, and other identifiers (see [14] and [15]). Both titles are also distinct entities on Wikidata. Is there an ideal way to denote both, and keep coherent Wikidata links? (Wikidata doesn't seem to associate with redirects). Thanks, --Animalparty! ( talk) 19:39, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography/Science_and_academia#guidelines_about_living_scientists-- Alexmar983 ( talk) 05:00, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
I've just asked for a tagging run at WP:BOTREQ#Tagging for WP Journals. It's mostly the same as we did in the past, but feel free to comment there. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:18, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
The only participants in this Afd are up till now the proposer (me) and the article creator. More views from knowledgeable editors are urgently needed. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 15:01, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello,
I think this one belongs to you.
From January 2016 onward, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences is published by Elsevier and not by Wiley anymore. You can find the announcement here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1520-6017. You can find the new website here: http://www.jpharmsci.org/. Most of the articles are also free, and you don't have to go to ScienceDirect to get them.
In the Wikipedia article, I already changed the links in the box and under the external links. You could work on the rest of the article.
Cheers!
Georginho ( talk) 21:23, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
There are a number of articles on NY entomological journals that have an intertwined history (some just simple renames) and that all basically consist of the same overly complicated table. See discussion here: Talk:Entomologica Americana (New York Entomological Society). Input from knowledgeable editors is welcome. -- Randykitty ( talk) 14:15, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi; can I add the title of a new open access journal to the 'Ubiquity Press academic journals category' if it does not have an article? The journal is called 'Citizen Science: Theory and Practice'. Richard Nowell ( talk) 00:05, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
FYI, as of May 25, Jeremy Berg named new "Science" editor-in-chief --->( link here)<--- ---- Steve Quinn ( talk) 21:13, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
According to [16] (see Table 1, p.2), it seems of all the metrics out there, WP:JCW/Popular1 seems to closely mirror PageRank sorting, especially if you include abbreviations and alternate spellings for our ranking.
An interesting factoid, I thought. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:33, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
I started an article on Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, a medical journal first published in 1887 or 1888. Ulrich's says that it is peer-reviewed. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 05:01, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
This journal is at AFD. More input of knowledgeable editors is welcome ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Modern phytomorphology). Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 15:50, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
Anybody here ever heard of "paid-inclusion open access journals"?? I just discovered that we have a cat for that. The description on its talk page seems rather POV/OR to me. -- Randykitty ( talk) 22:46, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Currently JAMA redirects to JAMA (journal), but given that Jama is a disambiguation page, is this a good idea? Should JAMA redirect to Jama instead? Would like to hear other editors' opinions on this. Everymorning (talk) 22:42, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
I am inviting participants in WikiProject Academic Journals to WikiConference North America to be held in San Diego Friday to Monday 7-10 October. Here are further details:
Discussion about the conference on-wiki could happen at meta:WikiConference North America.
I am one of the organizers for this event. If anyone has questions or comments, then conversation can happen here at this WikiProject also. I am advocating for topics related to the use of academic journals in Wikipedia to be well represented at this event. If any participants at this WikiProject wants to talk by video about the conference, I am available to meet by video chat if you email me. I might, for example, support anyone in making a presentation submission if you are unfamiliar with the wiki conference format. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:09, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
There are currently several AfD and CfD debates going on that really could need some input from knowledgeable editors. In one it is argued that inclusion of a journal in GScholar makes it notable, provided the journal is peer-reviewed. I would be interested to hear the opinions of editors here on this to see whether this reflects community consensus. A list of the different XfDs is on the main page of this project. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 09:35, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
I've just created the Flexal virus article from a CC-BY 3.0 paper published in Archives of Clinical Microbiology, a relatively recently created open-access journal: is it suitable as a WP:RS for this sort of article? On a wider topic, what would be the best way to check journal reputation for recently-created online journals? Thanks, -- The Anome ( talk) 11:37, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
This project's feedback would be appreciated in this discussion, as this could greatly (and positively) affect biological citations! Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:53, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
Just created this. Feel free to expand on it. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:52, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
I wanted to seek the opinion of other members of this project as to whether this edit was acceptable. Everymorning (talk) 01:00, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
An editor at this AfD has brought to my attention the fact that WP:NJournals in fact does not require inclusion in databases only counts for notability if that database if selective. Either this was overlooked when HJournals was written, or it has been edited out without anybody noticing. I'm currently traveling and cannot look into this, so I'm posting here so that perhaps other interested editors can have a look. I'll cross-post to the talk page of NJournals. -- Randykitty ( talk) 22:27, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
Pulsus Group recently was acquired by OMICS and since then there ahs been a lot of activity at this article. I've undone most proposed changes (not all), but I'd appreciate some fresh eyes to see whether I'm not being unreasonably strict. Thanks! -- Randykitty ( talk) 14:21, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
I hope it is right forum for discussion. Pulsus Group and Future Medicine are independent publishers and different business models, we should not combine with OMICS sources . As you know OMICS Publishing Group is a negative attack article. Jessie1979 ( talk) 07:36, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:Citing sources#Journal citation with templates should be preferred for a discussion on modifying the provisions of Wikipedia:Citing sources, specifically section WP:CITEHOW, to allow and encourage journal citations using citation templates even if an article already uses a consistent system without templates. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 07:51, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
See
Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:49, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
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There has been some edit warring going on at Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing regarding how the journal and its editors should be described. Additional eyes over there would be appreciated. Everymorning (talk) 15:40, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
FYI, participants in this WikiProject may be interested in the ongoing MFD discussion for WP:NJOURNALS, which can be found at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Notability (academic journals). Best, -- Notecardforfree ( talk) 19:13, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
Both of these articles could use some extra eyes. Be warned that the discussion at Ufahamu is especially acrimonious. -- Randykitty ( talk) 10:29, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
There are lots of discussion concerning WP:NJOURNALS, including proposed changes to it, many of which would substantially change the longstanding wording. Please comment there. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:15, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Jeffrey Beall's blog about predatory publishing has disappeared in its entirety. According to this, this is due to a decision by Beall himself, not hacking or such. Our problem is that posts on Beall's blog ( http://scholarlyoa.com/), especially his lists of predatory journals, publishers, and impact ranking services (but also individual blog posts), are the main sources (sometimes the only ones) that provide criticism in our articles on some of these predatory publishers/journals. All those links are currently dead (and in the past two days, some editors already started removing them!) I would expect that most content can still be found on the WayBack machine, so it is urgent that all these references get rescued by adding archive-url parameters to them. I'm up till my ears in work in RL, so all help is welcome! Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 09:29, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
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The WikiJournal of Medicine is a free, peer reviewed academic journal which aims to provide a new mechanism for ensuring the accuracy of Wikipedia's biomedical content. We started it as a way of bridging the Wikipedia-academia gap. [1] It is also part of a WikiJournal User Group with other WikiJournals under development. [2] The journal is still starting out and not yet well known, so we are advertising ourselves to WikiProjects that might be interested. |
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I've had an idea for WP:JCW and facilitate our work. Please comment there. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 23:23, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
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I was thinking recently how there is no one, universal lists of journals in any discipline, and where we (Wikipedia in general and this WikiProject in particular) fit into this. Here are my thoughts:
I am thinking I could start improving a list of journals in my field ( list of sociology journals) but I would appreciate comments regarding how a good list in our field, one that good aim for a WP:FAL status eventually, should look like. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:05, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I posted a query on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Academic Journals/Writing guide, maybe it would have been better if I had posted it here. Please let me know if you have any thoughts! Thanks TheBigPikachu ( talk) 18:40, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
I will be making (assuming my proposal is accepted) a presentation on JCW at Wikimania 2017, in Montreal.
If you are interested in attending, please sign up! Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 12:56, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
A user requested review at Draft:Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences. I thought that I would notify this board. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:27, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Is Draft:Image Analysis & Stereology notable? Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 11:30, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
For those who have not yet run across it, there is an
initative abroad to open up citation data, with WMF involvement, tied to the
OpenCitations initiative. As this is now approaching the point where half of all academic publications have released citations under CC0, it may be about time to capture and display status for publications in an {{
Infobox Journal}} parameter |opencitations=
. This could be bot-populated fairly easily (see
the FAQ for more.) Comments?
LeadSongDog
come howl! 17:38, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
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Please comment at Talk:philoSOPHIA. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 11:46, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
Please comment. This will possibly affect our writing guide at WP:JWG. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 04:39, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
I've added a section on how to deal with landmark papers to the guide. Feel free to refine the language. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 17:10, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
Would an attempt to write an article about the African Journal of Disability - http://www.ajod.org - be worthwhile or a waste of time? Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 15:08, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Although perhaps only tangential relevant to this project, people here might be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stanley Aronowitz bibliography, which bears on lists of academic books and journal articles. -- Randykitty ( talk) 21:17, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
Citation management tool Zotero now has two Wikidata translators. Not only does it read metadata from Wikidata items about works, so you can add them to your Zotero library, but it can export metadata in a format understood by QuickStatements, enabling users to more easily create Wikidata items about the works already in their Zotero libraries. Since Zotero can already read metadata about works from other websites, or data files such as BibTeX and COinS, it can now be used as an intermediary to import that data. See d:Wikidata:Zotero. The translator was developed at the recent WikiCite event in Vienna. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:06, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
This AfD was closed. I have requested a relist, so that editors knowledgeable about academic journals also can participate. -- Randykitty ( talk) 11:04, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
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A paid editor would like to add to the Allen Meadors article that he is an associate editor of a journal called Frontiers in Public Health. See the discussion here. It seems that the journal has 3,279 editors(!), 702 of whom are associate editors. Is it worth mentioning such a positon in a biographical article, given that the journal has so many editors? It hardly sounds like a selective position. Cordless Larry ( talk) 21:23, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
A request for advice/guidance: my research field has recently seen the appearance of two new journals, the Journal of Combinatorial Algebra (published by the European Mathematical Society; indexed in MathSciNet; three issues have appeared) and Algebraic Combinatorics (to be published by the Centre Mersenne; no issues have yet appeared, but it has been the subject of an article in Inside Higher Ed). Both are obviously reputable institutions. I'm not a regular editor of Wikipedia articles about journals; do these (yet) meet the basic notability requirements for Wikipedia? If not, what's the usual time-frame for notability in this kind of situation?
Thanks, JBL ( talk) 20:25, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
From many discussions at Wikimania, myself, DGG, and several others felt this infobox was a prime candidate for conversion to Wikidata. I've started a discussion at the link above. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 01:32, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
Team is there a Manual of Style for Academic Journals? Can this be listed in main page. Also please advise if Infobox for Journals be added to the project page.-- Wikishagnik ( talk) 13:55, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
If you have comments, please make them. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 16:26, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
Please participate in this discussion. This is related to the creation of a magazine-equivalent to WP:JCW. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 00:04, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
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"Education" and "Educational" don't show in the LTWA lookup. I've seen them both abbreviate to "Edu." and "Educ."—not sure whether/when it's consistent. Please {{ ping}} if you can help. czar 18:24, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
In the LTWA lookup, "medical" corresponds to "méd." with the accent. Is this correct? Medical Teacher would be "Méd. Teach."? czar 19:23, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Could someone please review Draft:Romanian Journal of History and International Studies? The draft says the journal is peer-reviewed, but I cannot tell whether it is notable. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 03:33, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Would it be okay if you guys put this predatory journal list on the front page of your project, asking contributors to check the publisher of an academic journal against this list? It may be useful for people who use academic journals as sources and/or write about them. User:Drmies gave me a heads up on this page. WhisperToMe ( talk) 18:56, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
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Is there a guide to handling Italian titles? The English equivalents for Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica are abbreviated, but no dice in the LTWA czar 21:03, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
"Its" isn't an article or conjunction—should it be included in the journal's ISO 4? czar 01:26, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
I just created Knowledge-Based Systems (journal), and was confused about what the ISO abbreviation for its title is. The automated tool that now is linked to at the top of new articles says it should be Knowledge-Based Syst. (I guess), but the NLM catalog entry says it should be Knowl. Based Syst. Which one is right? Everymorning (talk) 03:19, 8 September 2017 (UTC)