Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Academic Journals

This may not be worth an article, but members of this project might be interested: "Elsevier shutdown looms Down Under as open access talks collapse". Times Higher Education (THE). 2025-11-28. Retrieved 2025-12-01. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 09:51, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

This is not listed in any database listed by MIAR, but I have no idea whether any of the sources given make this pass GNG. Some extra eyes will be welcome (especially from people who could evaluate the Chinese-language sources). Thanks! --Randykitty (talk) 07:36, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

According to the Internet Archive, the last good record of the MIAR database was December 20, 2025. Currently all pages with the miar.ub.edu subdomain are now a 404 error. Thankfully this was an extensively crawled database but it's unfortunate now that all that data is up in the air. Anyone who knows Catalan who would be able to inquire to the university - it would be helpful to find out what happened. I am not seeing any news about it. -- Reconrabbit 14:48, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

• They are back!!!! --Randykitty (talk) 15:49, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

Another editor has created Draft:Frontiers in Sociology for a possibly predatory journal. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 20:12, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Just notifying members of this project that there is a Conflict of Interest edit request relevant to this WikiProject at the Journal of Personnel Psychology article. DrThneed (talk) 04:33, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

@Randykitty and @Headbomb are MECS Press Journals still considered predatory journals because if {{doi|10.5815}} or (mecs-press.org) are introduced then the following pops-up → Warning: An automated filter has identified this edit as introducing references to a predatory open access journal or publisher.

For e.g International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing (IJIGSP) (https://www.mecs-press.org/ijigsp/) is listed in Scopus (verify) and in OCLC database (761347167). Thanks. Agent 007 (talk) 17:28, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

If its not then needs to be removed from Template:Predatory open access source list Agent 007 (talk) 17:31, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Nearly all of their journals are included in Scopus Agent 007 (talk) 17:39, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

For Scopus, 6 MECS journals, out of 10 current titles, are indexed in it. Perhaps they have improved.

OCLC is nothing, and Scopus indexed some predatory journals. Not that many, but some. Looking at the list advertised by e.g. https://www.mecs-press.org/ijigsp/, there's a lot of things that aren't indexing services, like WorldCat, absolutely terrible ones you wouldn't want to advertise like IndexCopernicus, and AFIACT non-existant services like "Open Access Articles". Advertising non-services as indices is typical of predatory publishers.

Looking at , it started being in Scopus in 2019, so I would at the very least, be very wary of citing anything before 2019. And still weary of citing it after. But maybe it's ok. I'm not an image algorithm expert. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:42, 12 March 2026 (UTC)