Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences


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The result was delete.  MBisanz  talk 16:15, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences

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Nominating for other's opinion.The Amazing Spiderman (talk) 14:11, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment I am unclear on this one. The journal shows to have existed since 2010 as "Dysphrenia", and the issues are online. However, the early issues are far, far from scholarly. After the name change, the articles took on a scholarly appearance. I looked at some issues trying to see if the articles were real. In many of the bogus open access journals, you find that the articles have been copied from articles elsewhere, with only the author's names changed, and maybe a word or two changed in the title. I didn't find this to be the case for this one. However, the PDFs are created in such a way that there is no underlying text that could be run against a plagiarism detection machine -- and does not allow copy/paste -- and this concerns me. It is possible that they wanted to prevent copying, but this is an uncommon measure. Other than saying that the journal exists, however, I find no other information. It appears in Worldcat, but all of the libraries listed are in a single German consortium, and since the journal is online it appears to be "held" by all of them. (~30). I find no third-party information about it, but I don't know if that is unusual for a journal. I looked at the domain for the journal (hpage.com) and it's a freebie web site. This journal links to http://indianjournals.com, but I'm not sure what the connection is. The journal is not on the predatory publishers list, although the publisher, Academy Publisher, is very close in name to Academy Publish, which is a publisher on that list. The link from the journal to Academy Publisher, however, goes to indianjournals.com and is basically a blank page ("No journals for this publisher"). I'm stumped as to whether this is an actual academic journal or not. LaMona (talk) 21:21, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete Although this is not on Beall's list, it has many of the characteristics of a predatory journal: bad English on the website, editorial board of mainly unknown people (the editor-in-chief is an assistant professor), advertising listings on several bogus "impact factor" websites (CiteFactor, Index Copernicus, and such), proudly claiming to be "indexed" in the catalogue of the National Library of Medicine (which shows that the journal is not even on PubMed Central, despite being OA), etc. GScholar shows only a smattering of citations (also under the former title). In short, this is a non-notable journal. Not indexed in any selective databases, no independent sources. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG. --Randykitty (talk) 07:29, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kharkiv07  ( T ) 22:47, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per nomination. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk)  05:23, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete as a non-notable journal, not widely cited despite being open source, and not indexed by reliable (read selective) databases. In fact the only citations that I found to articles in this journal were contained within other articles also published by it (either the new name or the old name).  --Bejnar (talk) 21:52, 20 October 2015 (UTC)


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