Articles about scientific journals

[David Goodman]

 Physics is one of the areas where there are many articles about individual journals in WP, most of them stubs.

General thoughts for articles about journals:
(we only have 1 or 2 so far)
I don't think we'd want to get  more elaborate  than we could sustain, because there are about 6,000  journals to go, assuming we use a criterion of being in WebofScience. Some fields have all of them added as stubs in WP, some don't.  At first, I was surprised to see them in WP, because in general how much could be added to what is on the publisher's site, and they are all very easy to find with a web browser

details
The practice in WP is that thumbnails of the cover are fair use, & I think the same would apply here.
we can  add their status re Open access, but we would have to check every 6 months.
I'd suggest eliminating the "indexed in:" from all of them--concentration on that seems a little old-fashioned. Obviously all biomed journals are in PubMed, & chem in CAS, etc. 
I'd suggest eliminating an historical list of all the editors,except the first and any famous ones thereafter.
I'd similarly suggest not including all the current editorial board.
**WP doesn't do this but we can  find the most cited articles with WebofScience, which won't be available to all our readers.
***Everything we do here in bio is likely to be a precedent. There's only 1 editor in the Media group so far, and only 3 in library science, so I am not sure how much help we'll get. I'm going to cc. this part to the relevant groups, and see what the other sciences people want to do.   

[salsb]

David --

Do we really want all 6,000 journals in Citizendium? Or just ones that are particular significantly either currently, or historically.

I agree with details. I might add Web of Science subject classification; which isn't always obvious.  Maybe we have a template for most of these details:
Name,
subject,
year started,
editor-in-chief,
open access status
webpage
listing of most cited papers in this journal

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

Do we really want all 6,000 journals in Citizendium? Or just ones that are particular significantly either currently, or historically.

It is surely helpful to have a wiki page giving details of (at least) where to find each journal.  This assists with the tracking down of articles cited in Citizendium.

[Thomas Simmons]

I would think that it would be helpful to include mention of the ground breaking articles that have been published in specific journals. Einstein's, Feynman's, etc. that provided a major impetus to scientific endeavours. It would also be informative to list those of note that are not well known or no longer published, e.g. the small and limited that carried Mendel's work, Christian Doppler's, that sort of thing.

[Hayford Peirce]

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