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Journals cited by Wikipedia (or JCW) is a bot-generated compilation of academic journals cited on Wikipedia, at least those cited using the |journal= parameter of the various {{cite xxx}} templates of Wikipedia. The current version of the compilation was generated using the database dump of 20 December 2024. Due to a lack of advanced filtering and template misuse, the compilation will include several books, conference proceedings, magazines, monographs, newspapers, websites, and other publications (see reading and interpreting the data below).

Overview

The compilation is organized in several ways.

Two comprehensive listings:

WP:JCW/ALPHA	–	Containing all `\|journal=...` entries sorted alphabetically.
WP:JCW/DOI	–	Containing all `\|journal=...` entries sorted by DOI prefixes. Entries without corresponding DOIs are omitted.

Four lists of widely used ('popular') entries, organized by certain criteria:

WP:JCW/POP	–	Most popular entries (i.e. which `\|journal=...` entries are most used).
WP:JCW/MIS	–	Most popular missing entries (i.e. which `\|journal=...` entries are most used and don't have corresponding articles or redirects).
WP:JCW/PUB	–	Most popular publishers (i.e. regroups all entries that are associated with a publisher, e.g. members of Category:Inderscience Publishers academic journals, redirects to members of that category, redirects to Inderscience Publishers, and likely typos of those). Journals without articles or redirects will usually not be picked up, although they can be added manually for individual publishers.
WP:JCW/TAR	–	Most popular targets (i.e. regroups all entries that redirect to a certain target together, e.g. The Astrophysical Journal + Astrophysical Journal + Astrophys. J. + Astrophys J + ApJ + The Astrophysical Journal Letters + ..., as well as likely typos, and orders the targets by popularity).

Several lists of citations that are likely in need of some form of cleanup:

WP:JCW/MAINT

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Will contain entries which fail to form links (WP:JCW/Invalid), which have extra/missing dots (WP:JCW/Dots), which contain typos (WP:JCW/Typos), which are potentially miscapitalized (WP:JCW/Miscapitalisations), which have potentially missing or wrong diacritics (WP:JCW/Diacritics), which follow specific patterns that are likely to be problematic (WP:JCW/Patterns), or which have bad DOI prefixes (WP:JCW/BADDOI).

A list of questionable journals, which may or may not be reliable:

WP:CITEWATCH

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This is based on several lists of unreliable publications (like Beall's or Quackwatch's lists), with all the caveats it entails.

These lists are useful for discovering journals of interest to WikiProject members, but will also facilitate cleanup efforts. However, many entries on this list will be neither notable nor reliable. The presence of a source on these lists should not be considered an endorsement of the source.

Reading the data

Title (bold link) : page existed at time of database dump
Title (bold underlined link) : page existed, as a disambiguation page, at time of database dump
Title (italicized link) : page existed, as a redirect, at time of database dump
Title (italicized underlined link) : page existed, as a redirect to a disambiguation page, at time of database dump
Title (regular blue link) page did not exist at time of database dump
Title (non-link) : title contains invalid characters for a Wikipedia page title

A red link mean the article currently does not exist. This is either because the corresponding article has been deleted (in this case it will have some formatting), or did not exist at the time of the dump (regular red link).

As a side note, you can easily link to these entries with the following wikicode

[[WP:JCW/SubPageName#Entry]]
[[WP:JCW/SubPageName#Rank]]
[[WP:JCW/SubPageName#DOIprefix]]
[[WP:JCW/SubPageName#Registrant]]

For example, WP:JCW/Popular1#13 or WP:JCW/Popular1#ZooKeys will both work to take you to the relevant entry. Likewise for WP:JCW/DOI/10.1100#10.1117 or WP:JCW/DOI/10.1100#SPIE.

Be aware that the targets of these links will often vary from dump to dump as entries get reordered, move to different subpages, etc.

Interpreting the data

All numbers should be taken with a huge grain of salt for several reasons:

A large number of citations does not necessarily imply notability, nor does it imply reliability. Sometimes a journal will have been cited to support a single fact on many similar pages, or perhaps even by a bot auto-generating content. Sometimes a journal will have been cited because they were involved in controversies. Conversely, a low number of citation does not necessarily imply non-notability or non-reliability.
Citations not based on templates, such as <ref>J. Smith (2010), "Article of things", ''Journal of Foobar'', '''13'''(7):28–31</ref> are completely ignored by the compilation. Citations with a templated DOI via {{doi}} or {{doi-inline}}, such as <ref>J. Smith (2010), "Article of things", ''Journal of Foobar'', '''13'''(7):28–31 {{doi|10.4321/abcdef}}</ref> are partially supported.
Citations in comments, like , are counted as normal.
Re-used citations, such as <ref name=Smith2010>{{cite journal |author=J. Smith |year=2010 |title=Article of things |journal=Journal of Foobar |volume=13 |issue=7 |pages=28–31}}</ref> with later instances of <ref name=Smith2010/> are counted once.
It is quite common for a citation to be copied from one page and pasted into another - this may make any given typo or formatting error seem more common than it really is.
The same article may be cited multiple times on the same page, using a different template each time. This may make a journal/abbreviation seem popular when in fact it is only used on a few unique pages
Many editors misuse citation templates, creating all kinds of weird things that would never actually be searched for.
The list, like Wikipedia's linking system, is case sensitive. However, Wikipedia's search function is not case sensitive so unusual capitalizations don't really need redirects.
Entries like The Astrophysical Journal and Astrophysical Journal – or Phys. Rev. Lett. and Physical Review Letters – are counted as distinct journals, even though they refer to the same one. WP:JCW/TAR will attempt to regroup such entries together, however.
Only entries from articles are counted. Those from drafts, templates, talk pages, and other namespaces are omitted.

Thus, most current red links should probably stay that way. A huge sea of red does not reflect a failure of this WikiProject, but rather poor template usage by thousands of editors across Wikipedia.

Additionally, the WP:JCW/TAR and WP:JCW/PUB compilations will try to create sensible groupings of related entries – the first by regrouping all entries that redirect to the same 'target' article, the second by grouping entries that share the same publisher. These groupings will reflect the current article/redirect/categorization structure of Wikipedia for the most part.

Note that this does not guarantee to group Journal of Physics A-related entries separately from Journal of Physics B-related entries, or regroup all Journal of Physics journals distinctly from other journals that are not part of the Journal of Physics series. But that's generally how things will be grouped when the article/redirect/categorization structure allows for it.
- If, e.g. IOP Publishing has a journal without an article (or redirect) on Wikipedia, chances are it will not be categorized under 'IOP Publishing'. However, see the next bullet.
Adding missing journals to publisher groupings is possible. If you know of journals that should be grouped under a publisher, but aren't, mention it at WT:JCW and someone will help you.
Several (usually smaller) publishers lack groupings for them. Those can be added once identified. If you can't find a publisher entry, mention it at WT:JCW and someone will help you.

Statistics

3,834,236 {{cite xxx}} using |journal= or |doi=:
- {{cite journal}} × 3,489,975
- {{citation}} × 162,279
- {{cite book}} × 120,374
- {{cite news}} × 15,100
- {{cite web}} × 13,271
- {{cite encyclopedia}} × 8,902
- {{cite magazine}} × 7,323
- {{cite conference}} × 6,671
- {{cite report}} × 4,886
- {{cite thesis}} × 3,751
- {{bluebook journal}} × 748
- {{vcite journal}} × 573
- {{cite tech report}} × 182
- {{cite interview}} × 75
- {{cite map}} × 60
- {{cite AV media}} × 26
- {{cite press release}} × 26
- {{cite speech}} × 4
- {{cite podcast}} × 3
- {{cite serial}} × 3
- {{cite standard}} × 2
- {{cite AV media notes}} × 1
- {{cite sign}} × 1
23,671 total DOI templates:
- {{doi}} × 23,431
- {{doi-inline}} × 240
1,074,389 articles with journal or DOI citations:
- 1,073,433 articles with {{cite xxx}}
- 11,574 articles with DOI templates
321,143 distinct journal names:
- 321,106 distinct journal names in {{cite xxx}} templates
- 121 distinct journal names in DOI templates
- 235 DOI templates with journal names
2,492,785 total DOI citations:
- 1,703,825 distinct DOIs
- 683,244 marked with |doi-access=free
- 9,045 distinct DOI prefixes

The statistics are based on the database dump of 20 December 2024

Creating new articles

For academic journals, conference proceedings, monographic series, etc., see Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Writing guide.
For magazines, including professional and trade magazines see Wikipedia:WikiProject Magazines/Writing guide.

Redirecting

When creating new redirects, add a {{R from}} template such as
- {{R from acronym}}, such as JEBIM → Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine
- {{R from ISO 4 abbreviation}}, such as Phys. Rev. A → Physical Review A
- {{R from NLM abbreviation}}, such as Spine (Phila Pa 1976) → Spine (journal)
- {{R from Bluebook abbreviation}}, such as Yale L.J. → Yale Law Journal
- {{R from MathSciNet abbreviation}}, such as Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. → Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
- {{R from abbreviation}}, for other nonstandard abbreviation such as Phil. Trans. R. Soc. → Proceedings of the Royal Society
- {{R from former name}}, such as Journal of the Association for the Study of Food and Society → Food, Culture & Society
- {{R from alternative spelling}}, such as Astronomy and Astrophysics → Astronomy & Astrophysics
- {{R from other capitalisation}}, such as Journal Asiatique → Journal asiatique, usually only for non-English titles
- {{R from miscapitalisation}}, such as Physical review letters → Physical Review Letters
- {{R from misspelling}}, such as J Behav Med. → J Behav Med or Journal of Behavioural Medicine → Journal of Behavioral Medicine
- {{R from incorrect name}}, such as Slovene Studies Journal → Slovene Studies
- {{R from diacritics}}, such as The Gazette (Montréal) → The Gazette (Montreal)
- {{R to diacritics}}, such as Zeitschrift fur Physik → Zeitschrift für Physik
- {{R from database entry}}, such as Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y.: 1991) → Cerebral Cortex (journal)

...if possible. These templates help various maintenance tasks as well as third parties that make use of Wikipedia.

When redirecting pages that could conceivable be their own article, add {{R with possibilities}} to the redirect, and {{WikiProject Journals}} to the redirect's talk page. For example, journal sections such as Acta Physica Polonica A redirects to Acta Physica Polonica, so it should be tagged with {{WikiProject Journals}}, but Acta Phys. Pol. A should not.
Please do not create redirects for obviously bad inputs or typos. For example, Sienec (journal) is not a legitimate search term, and anywhere Sienec (journal) occurs on Wikipedia should remain redlinked to signal the typo/bad linking.

Feedback

Suggestions for improving the compilation are highly encouraged.

For general suggestions and issues unrelated to WP:CITEWATCH, leave comments at WT:JCW
For suggestions and issues specific to WP:CITEWATCH, leave comments at WT:CITEWATCH

In research

Katz, Gilad; Rokach, Lior (2017). "Wikiometrics: A Wikipedia based ranking system". World Wide Web. 20 (6): 1153–1177. arXiv:1601.01058. doi:10.1007/s11280-016-0427-8. S2CID 255134106.