User:JL-Bot/Questionable.cfg/Journals
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This is the setup page of The Wikipedia CiteWatch, a bot-compiled listing of potentially cargo cult, conspiracist, denialist, fake, junk, not even wrong, obsolete, predatory, pseudoscientific, quack, or otherwise unreliable publications cited by Wikipedia through the 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. Due to the somewhat arbitrary nature of what exactly constitutes an unreliable source, as well as imperfect matching algorithms, the list may feature publications and publishers which...
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/Publishers | Misc | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | |
/Journals | Misc | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
Note: Many entries on these lists will be things that should not normally in found in a |journal=
parameter. They are included for two main reasons:
- poor template usage – for example, if a website/publisher is put in a journal parameter by mistake (
|journal=UnreliableWebsite.com
) these will be picked up - redirect detection – oftentimes Wikipedia will not have an article about a specific journal, but it will have a redirect to its publisher (Unreliable Journal → Foo Society of Nonsense) or some other relevant article (Unreliable Journal → Founding editor)
Misc
[edit]A
[edit]- Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal
- ASTES Journal
- ASTESJ
{{doi|10.25046}}
- Ayushdhara
{{doi|10.47070}}
B
[edit]- Bioinformation
{{doi|10.6026}}
C
[edit]- The Criterion: An International Journal in English [Not to be confused with The Criterion.]
- Cumhuriyet Science Journal
{{doi|10.17776}}
- Cureus [Uses crowd-sourced "post-publication peer-review".]
D
[edit]- The Dawn Journal
{{doi|10.56602}}
E
[edit]- European Journal of Social Sciences [Possibly hijacked. The journal published by Librairie Droz, hosted on Open Edition is legitimate. The one published by Social Sciences Research Platform is listed by Beall.]
- Experimental & Clinical Cardiology [Until 2013, Experimental & Clinical Cardiology belonged to Pulsus group, which hadn't yet been sold to OMICS Publishing Group]
F
[edit]G
[edit]H
[edit]I
[edit]- Indian Journal of Natural Sciences [Indexed by Journal Citation Reports.]
- International Archives of Medicine [Acquired by iMedPub in 2015]
- International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology [Two journals, both predatory share a same/similar name.]
- International Journal of Advanced Research in Innovative Discoveries in Engineering and Applications
- International Journal of Biology, Pharmacy and Allied Sciences [Indexed by Journal Citation Reports.]
- International Journal of Biotechnology [Not the Inderscience journal]
- International Journal of Health Medicine and Current Research [Indexed in Journal Citation Reports, but questionable editor-in-chief.]
- International Journal of Mathematics [Refers to the IAEME journal, not the World Scientific one]
- International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences [Indexed by Journal Citation Reports and DOAJ, but sometimes riddled with grammatical mistakes.]
- International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding [List multiple fake impact factors, like Global Impact Factor, Citefactor, Scholar Article Impact Factor, etc...]
{{doi|10.18415}}
- International Journal of Nanotechnology [Not the Inderscience journal]
- International New Arts and Sciences Research Journal [Look out for malware/viruses.]
- International Refereed Journal of Scientific Research in Engineering [The same fake editorial board as IJMER.]
J
[edit]- Journal of Advanced Veterinary and Animal Research [Indexed by DOAJ, likely not predatory.]
- Journal of Cosmology
{{doi|10.37720}}
- Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology [Not the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers journal]
- Journal of Engineering Technology [Hijacked.]
- Journal of IMAB [Indexed in DOAJ and Journal Citation Reports, likely not predatory.]
- Journal of Management [Not the Southern Management Association journal]
- Journal of Translational Science [This is the only entry which appears on SPJ's list which does not appears on Beall's originals lists.]
K
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[edit]M
[edit]- Medical Hypotheses [Purposefully not peer-reviewed.]
N
[edit]- Neuropsychiatry (London) [BLJU notes a connection to Longdom Publishing. Used to be published by Future Medicine, but was sold to OMICS Publishing Group affiliates in 2016.]
{{doi|10.37532}}
- NeuroQuantology
{{doi|10.14704}}
O
[edit]P
[edit]- Physics Essays [Publishes quantum woo and relativity denial nonsense that could not possibly have passed meaningful peer-review.]
{{doi|10.4006}}
- Physics Essays
{{doi|10.4006}}
Q
[edit]R
[edit]S
[edit]T
[edit]U
[edit]V
[edit]W
[edit]- WebMed Central [An extremely small minority of articles are technically peer reviewed. Will normally fail WP:RS.]
{{doi|10.9754}}
- Whole Living [QW lists it under 'Body & Soul', a former name.]