Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stamford Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences


 * 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 DELETE. postdlf (talk) 02:00, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Stamford Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

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PROD removed by article creator without addressing notability concerns. Stated PROD reason was "Relatively new journal, apparently not listed in any major selective database. Does not meet WP:GNG or WP:NJournals." Since then, a few "databases" have been added, none of them selective (DOAJ, AsiaJOL, BanglaJOL, and Global Biotech Directory, a linkfarm). In the absence of any evidence that this meets our notability guidelines: delete. Crusio (talk) 15:30, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions.  -- Crusio (talk) 15:32, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  -- Crusio (talk) 15:32, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  -- Crusio (talk) 15:32, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

First of all as the article creator I would like to be sorry to delete the PROD without any explanation. The main reason may be I am not an expert in editing or making modification in the articles. I am just learning the essential things. I wanted to make an explanation but I was confused about "where should i do?".

Let us come to the point, Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia and people can seacrh for anything even for a new journal over here. Here it was stated that the journal is relatively new. So what? SJPS may not be a world renowned journal, it has got only three years of age but it is a sceintefic journal which has got some value in the field of pharmaceutical research.

DOAJ is widely acceptable Directory for open access journals. BanglaJol is well known in case of journals published from Bangladesh. I think a journal does not need to be indexed in PubMed or Science Direct to incorporate an article on it in Wikipedia.

Good day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kp ruddin (talk • contribs) 19:07, 25 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment 58 hits on Google Scholar for the exact phrase. Or you can use the button at the top of the Article for Deletion section here. Adding lots of times, with links to non-Wikipedia articles that talk about the WP article's subject between that, are primarily what 'win' AFDs, Kp ruddin. No one is born knowing how to do things, I always say, so I am not criticizing, just saying, asserting without evidence that articles are notable or not is for the deletors who infest AfD and will -never- learn solid argument skills. I call them perma-noobs, for that reason. Anarchangel (talk) 15:00, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete when the university that publishes it does not have an article, I do not think that the open access journal they puclish is notable either. Nergaal (talk) 18:29, 28 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment Stamford Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences is hosted by BanglaJOL. BanglaJOL or Bangladesh Journals OnLine is a service to get easy access to journals published from Bangladesh. Their selection criteria for inclusion a journal may be found bellow (as obtained from INASP):

"Journals are selected for inclusion on BanglaJOL using the following criteria:

1. They are scholarly in content, and contain original research (in addition to other content) 2. Their content is peer reviewed and quality controlled 3. They are able to provide all content for inclusion on BanglaJOL (tables of contents, abstracts and PDFs of full text) in electronic format 4. They are published within Bangladesh. Management of publishing strategy, business development and production operation are all run from Bangladesh."

BanglaJOL is supported by INASP which is an international organization to support different coutries in research arena. It was established by the International Council for Science. So, the statement "the journal (SJPS) is not indexed in any major database" is questionable. the be_st 06:44, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Kp ruddin (talk)
 *  Comment BanglaJOL is not a major international database. Major databases for medical journals are MEDLINE, Scopus, or Web of Science, for example. BanglaJOL's inclusion criteria are very inclusive compared to those of these major databases. --Crusio (talk) 07:03, 29 March 2011 (UTC)


 *  CommentThat is true. BanglaJOL is not a major international database. But this is the most reliable database in case of journals published from Bangladesh. My point is wikipedia should encourage such articles (the one which we are discussing) by keeping their records not deleting them. One alternative we can consider, a whole new article with a tille "Scientefic Journals Published from Bangladesh". the be_st 08:36, 29 March 2011 (UTC) Kp ruddin (talk)


 * Delete. As said in an earlier comment, there are only 58 hits on Google Scholar, and that includes citations too this journal.  That's pretty clearly not notable by the standards of research literature.  Sławomir Biały  (talk) 00:01, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
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