Talk:Scientific journal/Catalogs

How journals are selected?

It is unclear to me how Journals are selected. Ok, a ca. 10 journals are picked for every discipline, but which ones exactly?

I am asking because I'd like to help by editing in my discipline (Earth Sciences). I see journals there that are about atmosphere and oceans mostly, but there is little or nothing about solid Earth, for example. Cheers

Nereo Preto 09:55, 10 November 2006 (CST)

On WP, the magazines were added based on impact factors and other such rankings. However, since this isn't WP, the editors should feel free to invent our own criteria if we think we can do better. Bear in mind, however, that on WP this list was a sporadic astroturfing target as magazines tried to add themselves before stricter rules were put in place. --ZachPruckowski 10:46, 10 November 2006 (CST)

Thanks Zachary, I surfed trough the most cited journals and selected those I believe might be also important historically, balancing between different disciplines between Earth Sciences. Many red links, though...

--Nereo Preto 10:46, 15 January 2007 (CST)

Before adding articles for journals listed here

For journals listed here as "red links", there was no article a the time the list was first taken from Wikipedia, but there may be now. Check in Wikipedia first. DavidGoodman 04:10, 13 January 2007 (CST)

Recommended additions that need discussion

Journal of Organic Chemistry. Should organic chemistry get it's own heading? should it go under chemistry? or do you want to view it as a biological science (like the MCATs do). -Tom Kelly (Talk) 13:58, 13 January 2007 (CST)

I was wondering myself about the branches of chemistry. Since the list of articles in chemistry is such an expansive page, and the organic hem literature is so large; but then every specialty will want one, and the selectivity will be lost. No reason not to add this journal in any case.

Some of the red links are to journals where articles were added after the WP download, so check the current WP also. For the ACS journals, I will bring in the current version of the ACS page, which has them all in a list. then we can put in at least section headings for all the journals, and link to the sections. May be the quickest way to start.

Ive been planning to do the same for Annual Reviews. I'm somewhere in the middle of that one on WP, so I dont want to bring it over quite yet. . DavidGoodman 19:14, 15 January 2007 (CST)

did not delete

in speedy project since may need to compare with WP. DavidGoodman 18:47, 18 February 2007 (CST)