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Archive 1

Development

The concept is currently being worked out at

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Comments by Gah4

Moved from
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It seems to me that there should be something to talk about! Gah4 (talk) 21:43, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Progress as of 31 January 2019

Currently three things are missing for the list to be ready to be considered ready and complete.

A) Duplicate handling  Fixed

Sometimes a journal is listed (and counted) twice per group. Once as a standalone entry, once as sub-item of an entry, e.g.

for a citation count of '6 + 7 + 6 = 19' instead of

for a citation count of '7 + 6 = 13'.

B) Typo detection  Fixed

Currently, unredirected typos and variants of an entry are only reported if the entry is itself found, instead of always being reported. For instance, if you have

US Open Adv. Mech. Eng. J. has been cited. Likewise Journal of Foobar and Crap, a variant of Journal of Foobar & Crap, will only be reported if Journal of Foobar & Crap
has been cited.

C) Reporting of |source= and |note=  Fixed

This is essential to explain why something is on the Crapwatch.

WP:CRAPWATCH
doesn't yet.

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All fixed now.

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RfD: WP:CRAPWATCH, WP:JCW/CRAP and others

There is a discussion concerning whether or not

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CRAPWATCH expansion

There is a discussion about the expansion of the Crapwatch at

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I've also greatly expanded
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The only major thing missing from that I can think of is
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Vertical alignment

Having the table cells vertically centered really hurts readability. Could we get User:JLaTondre's bot to write style="vertical-align: top;" into the table rows, per Help:Table#Vertical alignment in cells? -- Netoholic @ 08:16, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

We could, although vertically aligned cells kinda look bad once the cells go back down to a reasonable size. I agree there's a readability issue though. The next step will likely be to templatify the table similar to what we do with
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2 different concepts

"flat out predatory" and " promote pseudo/junk science or quackery" are two unrelated dimensions. Most predatory journals are targeting at orthodox but uninteresting science, hooping ofr articles by unsophisticated researchers who do not know better than to publish them. They may because of their nonexistent peer review publish pseudoscience, but that's not their primary intention nor does it describe most of their material. , but that is not their primary intention. They are predatory with respect to those who publish in them, not their audience. DGG ( talk ) 10:02, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

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Yes, I am saying exactly that, people will be confused. That something is published in a typical low quality predatory journal is an alert that it may not have been adequately reviewed and may therefore not be depended on--that if it is used to show notability , it must be checked that it has actually been widely cited; that if it has been used to prove a point, it may require additional sourcing. Whereas is something has been published in a journal that frequently or exclusively publishes pseudoscience, it might well show notability as a pseudoscientist, but can certainly nort be depended on for a NPOV approach to the subject. These are two different problems.
I'm additionally not happy with the blanket classification of some publishers as predatory. Hindawi, for example, seems to have intended to develop into a reputable publisher--and some few of its journals have in fact become fairly respectable . This is in contrast to some of the other journal publishers here, which have no realistic expectations of ever being acceptable, and probably never really intended to be . (this was one of the problems with Beall's list, that it too did not make the distinction--but let there be no mistake, I consider Beale a pioneer worthy of the highest respect for his work in getting academic to recognize the problem.,and I think had he not been stopped by the actions of some publishers who were upset by his listing, he would have realized the difference hisellf in his work. DGG ( talk ) 10:34, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Ah yes, well for Hindawi (and others), the 'finalized' list (see
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It could also just be that Hindawi shouldn't be on the final list at all. Beall removed a few others (e.g. MDPI, Medknow), but those are much more problematic than Hindawi. However, as many note (e.g. [1], [2]), Hindawi was problematic in the past, but improved themselves (point #4 in the disclaimer).
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Added Zero Hedge to WP:RSP

I've added

X1\ (talk) 22:13, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

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If you mean [3], it needed some minor tweaks.
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Collapsible columns?

Is it possible to make the Entries column collapsible? At present, it is extremely difficult to scroll through the list, particularly on a mobile device. RolandR (talk) 12:26, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Not straightforwardly. I'll look into what's possible though. This is really only an issue for the first page, although it's arguably the most important one.
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Yes, that's a lot more manageable. Thank you. RolandR (talk) 14:44, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
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31 March 2019 – Official 'Launch' of The SourceWatch

If you're here following the

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RFC: SourceWatch is a name that is already taken. What should the new name be?

The consensus is to use The Wikipedia CiteWatch instead of The Wikipedia SourceWatch.

Cunard (talk) 05:29, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

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It turns out that

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Discussion

I'm thinking maybe The Wikipedia CiteWatch instead of The Wikipedia SourceWatch? How does that sound? Are there better alternatives out there? Are those hits on Google of concern? Thanks to

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"I expect that in the future this program will be part of
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Removed the shortcut in the box. Leftover from development.
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That's beyond the scope of this project. This is a list of potentially crappy citations. Including known reliable citations would defeat the point of the list in the first place.
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Hi
WT:RSP or my talk page if you're interested in this project. — Newslinger talk 19:15, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
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Guidance on searching for articles using the sources

Using the Advanced Search, search in page text, "exactly this text" will effectively focus results on the source name.

I'm thinking that in the listing of sources, one might also include common or formal abbreviations for the sources. This won't be useful in many cases ... for instance, the common abbreviation for Amphibian & Reptile Conservation is ARC as indicated on the journal's website - no help there - but the NLM Catalog indicates a couple of alternatives, namely Amphibian and Reptile Conservation and Amphib Reptile Conserv. Searching for the formal title → 26 results (the bot turned back 13); the ISO abbreviation turned up 0 hits. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:13, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

@

Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
also refers to a conversation trust, apparently). Then the following could be created

ARC, is trickier, since

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Help talk:Citation Style 1#Support citewatch=... or something like it

A proposal to have a parameter to mark questionable sources that are appropriately cited has been made. Please comment. @

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Link to archived proposal: Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 57#Support citewatch=... or something like it czar 20:16, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
De-archived.
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SPS

This may be of interest [12].Slatersteven (talk) 09:37, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Predatory cleanup, help needed!

Please see

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And now
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Add Cureus in the citewatch sources

Basically because of this: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Fake_case_Report and not indexed in MEDLINEWalidou47 (talk) 10:21, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

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Seems that
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Thanks you can also check their two days peer review process: https://retractionwatch.com/category/by-journal/cureus/Walidou47 (talk) 10:33, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
@Headbomb: Can you please show me how to add the journal using the bot ? (I think it is still pending right ?) Walidou47 (talk) 08:54, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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@Headbomb: thanks, well I was just searching at how the bot actually add stuff, I could not find how.Walidou47 (talk) 12:56, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
It's based at
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Script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and

predatory journals
. The idea is that it takes something like

  • John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is new, and I'm still expanding coverage and tweaking logic, but what's there already works very well. Details and instructions are available at

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@Headbomb: - First of all I love your new tool - it is exceptionally helpful. :0) ¶ I think I discovered an anomaly: One of the references (currently #32) in Beall's List, an archived article by Beall that was on his (now defunct) Scholarly Open Access site, shows up as a "generally unreliable source". Maybe because it's now on archive.org? I really have no idea, but I know you're continuously improving the script so just wanted to let you know. All the best   - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I'm a man—traditional male pronouns are fine.) 00:47, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
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@Headbomb: It wasn't a cite I added, but I fixed it (diff).   - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I'm a man—traditional male pronouns are fine.) 03:44, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Updates needed for Q8 - A8 Bad signs

  • "Being included in blacklists like Beall's list ..." - The historical list developed by Beall, which I certainly respect, is being added to by an anonymous person, but the original list is not being edited - notes are added, but there is no indication that links will be removed. Therefore it is possible that a few journals on Beall's list have improved or changed ownership, etc., i.e., they should no longer be blacklisted. I question if we should recommend a list that will gradually become less valid over time.
  • "Being included in blacklists like ... Cabell's blacklist" - Since access to this reputable list requires a paid subscription, it makes it hard for the average editor to consult Cabell's. I will post a request to the Wikipedia Library to see if they can contact Cabell's about limited free-access subscriptions for Wikipedians who apply (per the standard Wikipedia Library procedures). ¶ I updated the Cabell's article a bit (diff).
  • "Being included included in junk databases like Index Copernicus ..." - Although this Polish website has a translate-to-English function, it is not very good, i.e., much of the content is still in Polish. I could not find a list of journals in the Index or a way to search. I suggest we remove this recommendation.
  • "Being included included in junk databases like ... Open Academic Journals Index" - When I clicked the link to oaji.net I received this warning from Malwarebytes: "Website blocked due to a Trojan. Your Malwarebytes Premium blocked this website because it may contain a Trojan. We strongly recommend you do not continue." I will remove the link and recommendation from Q8/A8 because not everyone has Malwarebytes or similar software installed on their device.

  - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I'm a man—traditional male pronouns are fine.) 00:21, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

None of those things should be removed from Q8. Beall (and the updated lists) are still valid (with the caveats), same for Cabell even if it's paywalled, and both IC and OAJI are garbage indices that should be warned against. We don't link to them, nor the malware site.
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I should have made it clear that I do not advocate removing reference to Cabell's. I added this to The Wikipedia Library Card Platform: Suggest partners: "Cabell Publishing Company, which also goes by the unofficial name "Cabell's International", publishes proprietary lists of both "predatory" and reputable academic journals, which would be exceptionally helpful to editors when trying to decide if a reference meets Wikipedia's reliable sources criteria." ¶ I apologize for implying that we link directly to oaji.net. When I saw we do not have an article about the database, I searched for "Open Academic Journals Index" - it was the link on the Google search results page that I clicked. That said, my process of seeking more information about Open Academic Journals Index is exactly my concern. In answer to the question, "How do I find out if a 'borderline' source, or a source not listed here, is good or not?", we advise that "being included in junk databases (like Index Copernicus or Open Academic Journals Index)" is a "bad sign", which implies that one should check those two databases to see if either contains the journal of interest. Conscientious editors will do what I did: Search for the Open Academic Journals Index to see if a journal is listed therein. When they click on the link (on the Google SERP) they could end up with a trojan on their device. ¶ With regard to Index Copernicus, do you know the URL for the search page on the site? Or a page that lists journals indexed by the site? We should link directly to that page so editors can determine if the journal in question is listed by Index Copernicus. If editors cannot check these indexes, why recommend them as "bad sign" indicators? ¶ Note that I deleted "or [[Open Academic Journals Index]]" from A8. If you believe we should still include it despite my concerns, I defer to you to add it back.   - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I'm a man—traditional male pronouns are fine.) 03:33, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
I'm not against warning against browsing malware-containing sites, but journals which advertise being indexed in Index Copernicus and OAJI are definitely raising red flags, and that should not be removed from Q8.
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I think I understand your concern better now. What do you think about editing that one sentence in A8 to something like this: "A journal states it is indexed by junk databases, such as Index Copernicus or Open Academic Journals Index. (Note: You do not need to search those junk databases, particularly OAJI since their website might try to download a trojan to your computer or phone.)"   - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I'm a man—traditional male pronouns are fine.) 05:52, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Like I said, I'm not against that.
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Removal of columns CSS

There is some HTML on User:JL-Bot/Maintenance.cfg, User:JL-Bot/Citations.cfg, and User:JL-Bot/Publishers.cfg that looks kind of like <div class="div-col columns column-width" style="column-width: Xem">....

I'll soonly be removing the CSS associated with columns from MediaWiki:Common.css. You may wish to change these to {{div col}}.

--Izno (talk) 08:16, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

And some others in this search. --Izno (talk) 09:12, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
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@Headbomb: That is because you used {{columns-list}} which wraps the content in question in the template. {{div col}} is the "start-end" pattern version of columns-list and should accordingly have no issue (div col also supports the wrapper pattern but I rarely see people use that except by the pass through columns-list). --Izno (talk) 22:38, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
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Done. -- JLaTondre (talk) 01:04, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Too weak defamatory claims used agains specific journals?

NO ACTION
If you want
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As there is a attack by XOR'aster on physics essays also other places on wikipedia, where he uses this page as evidence for his claim it is a "garbage journal" I was looking up the claims on this page and wonder how much backing is really behind it, I could not find much:

Physics essays according to this page "Publishes quantum woo and relativity denial nonsense that could not possibly have passed meaningful peer-review." 

What is specifically meant with relativity denial nonsense? Many non well studied in physics may be think the special relativity theory is considered among all a complete theory. This is not the case. A series of journals published papers on the possible incompleteness in special relativity theory, even a well established theory should off course be questioned, and the ones question it should be questioned. What should not happen is try sensor scientific discussions. Just as an example relativity of simultaneity is considered to be a corner stone in special relativity theory. Still it is quite often discussed and even criticized in very well established journals like the American Journal of Physics, not only in the past but also in recently published papers :"This alternative synchrony renders simultaneity not relative but absolute " https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/10.0000002

so what is so very different when researchers like Professor Gift publishes papers on similar topics in Physics Essays. I mention Professor Gift since XOR'aster in the same claims have attacked his paper specifically and claimed Physics essay is garbage. InvestigateThis (talk) 17:06, 13 February 2021 (UTC)InvestigateThis (talk) 17:07, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

" that could not possibly have passed meaningful peer-review." has wiki editors that wrote this actually checked the peer review process at Physics Essays. For me it seems this journal have been put on the list as some editors in wikipedia is after deleting references to some they for some reason have a personal issue with, I could be wrong. But where is the proofs behind the claims such as "" that could not possibly have passed meaningful peer-review." . The journal specifically mention how they do peer review, perhaps they are more open minded than some other journals, so more variety. Is the "evidence" used that this journal have more papers than other more known journals questioning the completeness of special relativity theory ?InvestigateThis (talk) 17:30, 13 February 2021 (UTC)


Here it is claimed "The papers mentioned there are without any shred of doubt utter nonsense" why is it obvious nonsense, because it comes with hypoteis question special relativity theory? I likely disagree on the hypotesis suggested by that paper, but such hypotesis are very often presented in much higher ranked journals than this for example "Analyses of scissors cutting paper at superluminal speeds" https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/ab77c4 This paper goes against special relativity theory, I think the hypothesis they have presented is not correct, but then I have to prove so, and preferably in a peer reviewed paper, or find peer revied papers doing so. Science do not move forward by prejudice, but by arguments and counter arguments and ongoing discussions. Here we see wikipedia editors, that have perhaps some basic university studies in physics coming with prejudice and defamatory claims against researchers, papers, journals. I encourage some editors in wikipedia to understand this is not giving wikipedia very high status among many researchers. InvestigateThis (talk) 18:41, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

No, that paper does not go "against special relativity theory"; as the abstract clearly states, it bases its conclusion on the relativity of simultaneity. Moreover, the item you point to is a brief comment on an earlier paper [16] whose abstract states that what happens in their thought-experiments happens without violating special relativity. XOR'easter (talk) 18:51, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

So perhaps not a good example, there are many alternative relativity theories discussed in the literature, for example going against relativity of simultaneity corner stone in special relativity theory

"and so distant clocks cannot be consistently synchronized following the standard procedure proposed by Einstein except for those under some privileged motion." https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/10.0000002

I can list loads of papers if wanted, I will perhaps in a write up where I will show how editors of wikipedia try to deplatform and ridicule researchers questioning consensus. It is not that they necessarily are right, very often they are wrong. Attacks on peer reviewed papers should be taken seriously when in peer reviewed journals. My point it is not up for wikipedia editors to decide what is good or bad papers. Journals with low rank has on average lower quality of papers, journals with higher rank have on average papers with higher standard. Still there are plenty of evidence of totally garbage papers in low ranked as well as high ranked journals. Individual papers can not be judged based on an average. Perhaps go and study some statistics?InvestigateThis (talk) 19:48, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

"I encourage some editors in wikipedia to understand this is not giving wikipedia very high status among many researchers." Good. It shouldn't have a high status amongst researchers, because Wikipedia is not the place to conduct research. Publish your theory in a reliable journal, then we'll cover it. Until then, we're not interested. Now, unless you're interested in opening a discussion at
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How can you use
WP:CITEWATCH
to see which articles are citing questionable journals?

On Page 6 I saw The Onion was used as source somewhere, and I'm curious. - Scarpy (talk) 23:59, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Follow the link? It's on
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Headbomb Not sure how I could be missing it. Where's the link? - Scarpy (talk) 04:53, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
Wait, I found it. Related, though... Looking at Page 2 I see there's several in multiple articles but they're not linked the same way. Does it stop linking after a certain number of apperances? - Scarpy (talk) 04:58, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
Yes, it links to individual articles when there's 5 or fewer articles citing the source. Above 5 articles, you can just search for "The Onion" or "insource:/journal *= *The Onion/" or similar.
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Thank you! Yeah that insource operator is pretty cool. I didn't know you could do that. Scarpy (talk) 19:48, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
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The Federalist

The Federalist should be added as a questionable source per the recent RFC closure here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Discussion_(The_Federalist). I'd do it myself, but wikitext isn't my thing. ThadeusOfNazerethTalk to Me! 20:20, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

 Done
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Small milestone...

We've cleared enough that we're now at 498 entries, needing only 5 pages instead of 6 for the

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Beall's list page moved

Hello everyone, noob here.

I see a lot of references on this page to Beall's list, may I first say how happy I am to see that list is still maintained. But, I believe that page has been moved. The link I am seeing is https://beallslist.weebly.com/ but clicking there says the page has been moved to: https://beallslist.net/ .

I would be happy to fix this if it's helpful. Would I just run a search and replace or is there a better option?

Edinburghpotsdam (talk) 19:54, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

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Can false positives be removed?

So I was scanning through this, and noticed that the Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection is listed under the "conspiracy theories" tab, likely because one of the other entries involves the name Robert M. The Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection is a collection of place names in Kentucky I've used a source before (mainly to determine the nature of the place). It is most certainly not a conspiracy theory. Hog Farm Talk 04:14, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Yes, quite easily. see
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North American Journal of Psychology

I believe that the North American Journal of Psychology (NAJP) is probably questionable, but I'm hardly an expert so I thought I should check. I've made a list of potential red flags:

  • Editorial policy makes it pretty clear that they'll accept papers that many reliable journals wouldn't[1] This is up to and including them saying that they are seeking papers on "Topics that are 'unpopular' in other journals".[2]
  • They publish papers that have very major methodological and theoretical flaws. For example - an article where part of the justification is The Secret, and the study picks out and compared 2 individual questions from a questionnaire (NOT how a questionnaire should be analysed), with no justification as to why they picked those specific questions.[3]
  • They advise people to add other authors onto their paper in order to reduce cost of application. It seems really weird to me to advise that authors give credit to people who weren't involved for the sake of authors saving money.[4]
  • The publisher of the NAJP is NAJP.
  • Bad impact factor and SCImago ranking, with no improvement over time.
  • As far as I've seen, the articles don't have DOIs. Potentially relatedly, they encourage authors to upload their articles to ResearchGate, etc, with an implication that getting the research accessible to people is the responsibility of the author.[4]
  • I checked the issues they've released over 2021 and 2020, and the journal's editor, McCutcheon, has published at least one article in every issue. And they're not even editorials, they're research articles. In every issue at least one other member of their advisory/consulting editors has also published a research article.
    • I'd normally assume it's fine, but because (as far as I can tell) there's a habit of publishing their "inner circle's" papers, it seems worth mentioning that there are a handful of other perennial authors, e.g. Clark and Ready.

I don't know heaps about what's normal practice in journals, so feel free to tell me if any of these aren't actually a problem. Please ping me if you respond. Cheers! --Xurizuri (talk) 12:23, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ NAJP Editorial Philosophy
  2. ^ NAJP Types of Papers Encouraged
  3. ^ Against All Odds - Are Abundant Thinkers Really Wealthier? The Cross-Country Analysis on Abundant Thinkers and their Income Scale (on Research Gate)
  4. ^ a b NAJP Helpful Hints

It does seem borderline, but it's also indexed in Scopus as a middle-of-the-pack journal. I'd suggest getting consensus at

b} 13:28, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, that's very helpful! I'll do that.
Also, apparently it's middle of the pack for specifically sociology and political science, which is unexpected, but here we are. (39th percentile for sociology and pol sci, 29th for education, 18th for developmental/education psych, 17th for general psych - strange stuff). --Xurizuri (talk) 02:05, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

International Journal of Information Research and Review

I've stumbled across this article published in what is claimed to be a fully peer-reviewed scholarly journal.

The article reads, however, like a bad translation from Google Translate, and apparently some of it is maybe from Azeri: For example, mol! to be a report of the American historian. R. Hovhannisyan on "the Crisis in the Caucasus", which was read at the conference organized" Corporation "Rand". On 28-29 August 1993, in Co - livornica Year, or Russian: Armenians deystvitelno have taught us the horrors of modern war, (действительно = really), These were monstrous zverst [wtf?] Armenian murderers to the beginning of Sumgayit events. and We believe it is necessary to note that the Sumgait event is wholly the handiwork of the Armenian ekstremistov. Provakatsii prepared long before February 1988 on the territory of Armenia. Not to mention that it lays the blame for the Sumgait pogrom on Armenians.

This can't possibly be a good journal if the "peer reviewers" can't notice that submissions are written using copy-paste from Google Translate. Szmenderowiecki (talk) 14:15, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

It should already be picked up by the Citewatch. It's just not been cited on Wikipedia as of the last dump (1 February, see
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International Journal of Coronaviruses

So I've come across this and don't know what to make of it. It's not listed on Scopus or on Beall's list, or anywhere else at all from what I could find. One of its papers is presently being used to claim that there was insignificant undercounting or data manipulation on Covid-19 cases in India and China using Benford's Law which looks dodgy as it contradicts most other sources. Sorry if I'm missing something obvious here, I don't deal with predatory journals often. Tayi Arajakate Talk 16:08, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

@
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[Unreliable fields] bad link

I don't know how to fix this myself since it appears to be bot-generated, but there are several links to "[Unreliable fields]" which are linked to:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JL-Bot/Questionable.cfg#Unreliable_fields

But that seems to be a broken reference. I think they may need to be updated to refer to:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JL-Bot/Questionable.cfg/General#Unreliable_fields

DKEdwards (talk) 20:42, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

@
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Found it. Should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting.
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EurAsian Times

EurAsian Times is an extremely questionable source that seems to lift news or work from other sources without any attempt to vet them. In particular, the articles relating to the Russia-Ukraine War are full of tabloid-like headlines and sometimes outright regurgitation of Russian propaganda without any attempt at verification. The site is supposedly an Indian-Canadian venture, and I'm not sure if their questionable reporting quality is the result of an agenda or laziness, but some articles are making extraordinary claims when citing EurAsian Times. Steve7c8 (talk) 06:06, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

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b} 21:52, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
I haven’t. Is that the first step in request a review of a source? I’m not familiar with this process. Steve7c8 (talk) 04:58, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
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WP:RSN provides a central archive of discussions for the reliability of sources regardless of their type. I use the archive on a regular basis to see if a source I'm suspicious of has been discussed before. So, good idea to discuss there rather than here ... but perfectly OK to put a link here to the discussion there, so that people working in this WikiProject are aware. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:19, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Deprecated source removal from article

In A Brief History of Crime, I removed a deprecated source, The Mail On Sunday (I think). If any action needs to be taken on my behalf, please notify me. Thank you! The Troutinator (talk) 05:31, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

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WP:ABOUTSELF. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:23, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 March 13#Humanities and Social Sciences

This discussion will affect a class of redirects on which

b} 20:09, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

The discussion was moved to Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 March 24#Humanities and Social Sciences and subsequently closed as "keep 2, no consensus on 2". --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:25, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Medline journals should be removed from the list ?

From the

Medline article :"New journals are not included automatically or immediately. Several criteria for selection are applied. Selection is based on the recommendations of a panel, the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, based on the scientific scope and quality of a journal. The Journals Database (one of the Entrez databases) contains information, such as its name abbreviation and publisher, about all journals included in Entrez, including PubMed. Journals that no longer meet the criteria are removed. Being indexed in MEDLINE gives a non-predatory identity to a journal." Atchoum (talk) 19:44, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Medline is not perfect, and does include predatory journals. It can also include various oddball journals for many reasons. If a specific journal should be removed, you can make a case for it at
b} 20:13, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi.
Nothing is perfect ! Is there somewhere a list of predatory journal included in Medline according to 'wikipedia' ? Oddball or not is not the question. For example, there is no case against Oncotarget at WP:RSN but he is in the list; moreover he was reintegrated in 2022 in medline. Some journals on the list have never been deleted by medline. I understood that these journals could have been on a temporary list after the release of Bell 's list, but after so many years without proof of predations, why it make sense ?
The disclaimer sates that : "This list is a starting point to detect unreliable sources which are cited by Wikipedia, but it does not answer whether it is appropriate to cite them." ; but in reality people delete references without justification.
Medline is so rigorous that it should be withelist, and every exception should be debated at WP:RSN. Atchoum (talk) 00:16, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
b} 00:20, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
There is no WP:RSN for Oncotarget but he is on the list. You seem to care so much ! Atchoum (talk) 00:25, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
See Q5 in the FAQ above.
b} 00:36, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Utility of this page?

I'm curious about whether the regular referral of people to

WP:RSN is an indicator that this is not a good page to keep, that it is distracting people from the central discussion resource? A pointer to the archive here could be made at RSN so people could access this alt archive, but maybe the page itself should redirect to RSN? Thoughts or am I just barking mad (not mutually exclusive)? --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:29, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Not really barking mad, but this page is basically for the routine maintenance of the list. E.g. if there's something at RSN I missed, you can point it out here. Or if there's some false positives that are egregious (note that the compilation just updated, so it'll take me 1-2 days to go through the existing obvious stuff). Or point out some obvious duh cases that don't need to be discussed at RSN.
b} 00:38, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
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