Talk:Israel Numismatic Research

The claim is being made by @Randykitty that this journal is "Not indexed in any selective databases, no independent sources discussing the journal in depth. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG."

I argue this journal is notable by WP:JOURNALCRIT.

C2 states that "For journals in humanities, the existing citation indices and Google Scholar often provide inadequate and incomplete information. For journals in humanities, the existing citation indices and Google Scholar often provide inadequate and incomplete information. In these cases, one can also look at how frequently the journal is held in various academic libraries when evaluating whether C2 is satisfied. This information is often available in Worldcat, but other sources can be found on the book sources page, at the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog, or at the Zeitschriftendatenbank. Data on library holdings need to be interpreted in the light of what can be expected for the specific subject."

While it is true that it doesn't appear in these indexing services, that is largely due to the nature of the journal. Many influential journals in numismatics are not indexed. It is highly cited in the relevant domains. Subject-matter experts contribute to the journal, and some of their names were mentioned in the body of the article. I add a few more, who are top numismatists of the Near East: Dr. Pere Pau Ripollès Alegre; Michael Metcalf; Dr. Oliver D. Hoover of the American Numismatic Society; Dr. Nikolaus Schindel; Dr. Robert Kool of the IAA; numismatist Dr. Arie Kindler; numismatist Catharine C. Lorber; Prof. David Wasserstein; Prof. Andrew Meadows; and there are many more.

WorldCat (https://search.worldcat.org/title/153746556) reports that INR in 166 libraries internationally, including most significant institutions. אקעגן (talk) 18:54, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

In the most recent Survey of Numismatic Research, INR appears 115 times. For comparison, the American Journal of Numismatics (AJN), another well-respected numismatics journal, appears there 86 times. In the previous survey, INR appears 94 times against 80 appearances of AJN. אקעגן (talk) 17:11, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

One more important source: "How Poor are Current Bibliometrics in the Humanities? Numismatic Literature as a Case Study" by François de Callataÿ, whose abstract summarizes the state of affairs well:

Numismatics is a field of research for which current search engines are of a very limited use (with an exception, to handle with caution, for Publish or Perish). It may be estimated that Scopus covers c. 1.8% of the relevant literature (c. 450 pages out of the c. 25,000 produced every year) while the Web of Science is absolutely mute. A detailed analysis performed on the main numismatic periodicals both confirms the value of the ERIH index and invites some important corrections. Forgotten are the American Journal of Numismatics, which is to be classified as International 1, the Rivista Italiana di Numismatica, which is to be classified as International 1 or 2, as well as Numismatica e Antichità Classiche, while the Bolletino di Numismatica, the British Numismatic Journal, and Israel Numismatic Research certainly qualify for a national level. The study points out how numismatics is a self-sufficient field, with a specific literature referring first to itself, and how, compared with other fields in the humanities, it regularly needs to refer to very old literature.

(My bolding added)

Writing in 2013, he describes INR as having been launched recently with a high standard. More than a decade has passed since de Callataÿ's assessment. אקעגן (talk) 14:14, 9 March 2026 (UTC)