Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia

Journals cited by Wikipedia (or JCW) is a bot-generated compilation of academic journals cited on Wikipedia, at least those cited using the journal parameter of the various templates of Wikipedia. The current version of the compilation was generated using the database dump of. Due to a lack of advanced filtering and template misuse, the compilation will include several books, conference proceedings, magazines, monographs, newspapers, websites, and other publications (see reading and interpreting the data below). The compilation is organized in several ways.

Overview
Two comprehensive listings: Four lists of widely used ('popular') entries, organized by certain criteria: Several lists of citations that are likely in need of some form of cleanup: A list of questionable journals, which may or may not be reliable:

These lists are useful for discovering journals of interest to WikiProject members, but will also facilitate cleanup efforts. However, many entries on this list will be neither notable nor reliable. The presence of a source on these lists should not be considered an endorsement of the source.

Reading the data

 * Title (bold link) : page existed at time of database dump
 *  Title  (bold underlined link) : page existed, as a disambiguation page, at time of database dump
 * Title (italicized link) : page existed, as a redirect, at time of database dump
 *  Title  (italicized underlined link) : page existed, as a redirect to a disambiguation page, at time of database dump
 * Title (regular blue link) page did not exist at time of database dump
 * Title (non-link) : title contains invalid characters for a Wikipedia page title

A red link mean the article currently does not exist. This is either because the corresponding article has been deleted (in this case it will have some formatting), or did not exist at the time of the dump (regular red link).

As a side note, you can easily link to these entries with the following wikicode For example, WP:JCW/ Popular1 #11 or WP:JCW/ Popular1 #ZooKeys will both work to take you to the relevant entry. Likewise for WP:JCW/ DOI/10.1100 #10.1117 or WP:JCW/ DOI/10.1100 #SPIE.

Be aware that the targets of these links will often vary from dump to dump as entries get reordered, move to different subpages, etc.

Interpreting the data
All numbers should be taken with a huge grain of salt for several reasons:
 * A large number of citations does not necessarily imply notability; sometimes a journal will have been cited to support a single fact on many similar pages, or perhaps even by a bot auto-generating content. Conversely, a low number of citations does not imply non-notability.
 * Likewise, a large number of citations does not necessarily imply reliability; sometimes a journal will have been cited because they were involved in controversies. Conversely, a low number of citation does not imply non-reliability.
 * Citations not based on templates, such as  are completely ignored by the compilation. Citations with a templated DOI via doi or doi-inline, such as   are partially supported.
 * Citations in comments, like, are counted as normal.
 * Re-used citations, such as  with later instances of   are counted once.
 * It is quite common for a citation to be copied from one page and pasted into another - this may make any given typo or formatting error seem more common than it really is.
 * The same article may be cited multiple times on the same page, using a different template each time. This may make a journal/abbreviation seem popular when in fact it is only used on a few unique pages
 * Many editors misuse citation templates, creating all kinds of weird things that would never actually be searched for.
 * The list, like Wikipedia's linking system, is case sensitive. However, Wikipedia's search function is not case sensitive so unusual capitalizations don't really need redirects.
 * Entries like The Astrophysical Journal and Astrophysical Journal – or Phys. Rev. Lett. and Physical Review Letters – are counted as distinct journals, even though they refer to the same one. WP:JCW/TAR will attempt to regroup such entries together, however.
 * Only entries from articles are counted. Those from drafts, templates, talk pages, and other namespaces are omitted.

Thus, most current red links should probably stay that way. A huge sea of red does not reflect a failure of this WikiProject, but rather poor template usage by thousands of editors across Wikipedia.

Additionally, the WP:JCW/TAR and WP:JCW/PUB compilations will try to create sensible groupings of related entries – the first by regrouping all entries that redirect to the same 'target' article, the second by grouping entries that share the same publisher. These groupings will reflect the current article/redirect/categorization structure of Wikipedia for the most part.
 * Note that this does not guarantee to group Journal of Physics A-related entries separately from Journal of Physics B-related entries, or regroup all Journal of Physics journals distinctly from other journals that are not part of the Journal of Physics series. But that's generally how things will be grouped when the article/redirect/categorization structure allows for it.
 * If, e.g. IOP Publishing has a journal without an article (or redirect) on Wikipedia, chances are it will not be categorized under 'IOP Publishing'. However, see the next bullet.
 * Adding missing journals to publisher groupings is possible. If you know of journals that should be grouped under a publisher, but aren't, mention it at WT:JCW and someone will help you.
 * Several (usually smaller) publishers lack groupings for them. Those can be added once identified. If you can't find a publisher entry, mention it at WT:JCW and someone will help you.

Creating new articles

 * For academic journals, conference proceedings, monographic series, etc., see WikiProject Academic Journals/Writing guide.
 * For magazines, including professional and trade magazines see WikiProject Magazines/Writing guide.

Redirecting

 * When creating new redirects, add a R from template such as
 * R from acronym, such as JEBIM → Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine
 * R from ISO 4 abbreviation, such as Phys. Rev. A → Physical Review A
 * R from NLM abbreviation, such as Spine (Phila Pa 1976) → Spine (journal)
 * R from Bluebook abbreviation, such as Yale L.J. → Yale Law Journal
 * R from MathSciNet abbreviation, such as Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. → Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
 * R from abbreviation, for other nonstandard abbreviation such as Phil. Trans. R. Soc. → Proceedings of the Royal Society
 * R from former name, such as Journal of the Association for the Study of Food and Society → Food, Culture & Society
 * R from alternative spelling, such as Astronomy and Astrophysics → Astronomy & Astrophysics
 * R from other capitalisation, such as Journal Asiatique → Journal asiatique, usually only for non-English titles
 * R from miscapitalisation, such as Physical review letters → Physical Review Letters
 * R from misspelling, such as J Behav Med. → J Behav Med or Journal of Behavioural Medicine → Journal of Behavioral Medicine
 * R from incorrect name, such as Slovene Studies Journal → Slovene Studies
 * R from diacritics, such as The Gazette (Montréal) → The Gazette (Montreal)
 * R to diacritics, such as Zeitschrift fur Physik → Zeitschrift für Physik
 * R from database entry, such as Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y.: 1991) → Cerebral Cortex (journal)
 * ...if possible. These templates help various maintenance tasks as well as third parties that make use of Wikipedia.


 * When redirecting pages that could conceivable be their own article, add R with possibilities to the redirect, and to the redirect's talk page. For example, journal sections such as Acta Physica Polonica A redirects to Acta Physica Polonica, so it should be tagged with WikiProject Journals, but Acta Phys. Pol. A should not.
 * Please do not create redirects for obviously bad inputs or typos. For example, Sienec (journal) is not a legitimate search term, and anywhere Sienec (journal) occurs on Wikipedia should remain redlinked to signal the typo/bad linking.

Feedback
Suggestions for improving the compilation are highly encouraged.
 * For general suggestions and issues unrelated to WP:CITEWATCH, leave comments at WT:JCW
 * For suggestions and issues specific to WP:CITEWATCH, leave comments at WT:CITEWATCH