Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Journal of Global Information Management


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was no consensus. North America1000 01:28, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Journal of Global Information Management

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A journal published by a vanity press whose article was deleted, with an impact factor of 0.303, and no reliable independent secondary sources. All sources listed are primary, and in any case directories. Guy (Help!) 00:16, 19 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep In Scopus and has a JCR impact factor, so it meets notability via WP:NJOURNALS. --Mark viking (talk) 00:51, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Weak delete: Notability is not that bad, but I would suggest that should been merged and redirected to a specific article. KGirlTrucker81huh? what I'm been doing 02:22, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. Selected for inclusion in Scopus, Current Contents, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. Especially the latter is very selective. That the publisher is not notable doesn't mean that one of its journals cannot be notable (that would be kind of a reverse INHERITED, I guess). --Randykitty (talk) 06:52, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, so WP:ITSINDEXED is now policy, overriding WP:V, WP:RS and WP:GNG? This is a zero-impact journal and I cannot find a single source that actually talks about it. There is nothing apart from the fact of being indexed. Guy (Help!) 10:17, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I cannot find a single source that actually talks about it. Here's one for starters. Kingoflettuce (talk) 14:25, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Amazing - a book very much liek those published by IGI Global, of Hershey Pennsylvania, published by a company in Hershey, Pennsylvania. That is a very singular coincidence! And here's another: does the name Mehdi Khosrow-Pour sound familiar? this web page lists the editor of the journal which is the subject of this article. Small world, eh? Guy (Help!) 00:12, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep Sufficiently passes WP:GNG & WP:NJOURNALS Kingoflettuce (talk) 14:25, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm with Guy here . There's no indication in any secondary source that this journal is notable. agt x  16:51, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:22, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academic journals-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:22, 21 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep – Passes NJOURNALS Criterion 1 with citation indexes. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 23:58, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * And of course you advocate keep, as the creator, and an editor with a strange desire to re-introduce the article on the vanity press that publishes this journal. But subject notability guidelines don't trup canonical policy. Where are the reliable independent sources about this subject? WP:NOTDIR regardless of how much people might want to use subject-specific guidelines as a box-ticking exercise in the absence of actual sources. Guy (Help!) 00:07, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
 * "A vanity press, vanity publisher, or subsidy publisher is a term describing a publishing house in which authors pay to have their books published." (Wikipedia). The publisher does not charge for publishing so is not a vanity press. That said, by this definition, open access publishing by publishers like Elsevier is "vanity publishing"! —Jonathan Bowen (talk) 00:47, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   09:44, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment – the suggestion that this journal is published by a vanity press, as implied in the proposal above, should be discounted since this is an incorrect designation according to Wikpedia's own definition of a vanity press, IMHO. Indeed, I believe that the publisher IGI Global (founded in 1988 with 170+ journals to its name) was deleted due to misinformation on this aspect in the deletion discussion. See further information above. —Jonathan Bowen (talk) 22:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.