User:Headbomb/JCW

Journals Cited by Wikipedia: Evaluating the Impact of Journals on Wikipedia

This is the updated version of this talk I gave at Université de Moncton in 2018. For the original version presented at Wikimania 2017, see [1].

Presenter

Gaëtan Landry (User:Headbomb)

Background

Acadian (French-Canadian), born in Grande-Anse, New Brunswick, Canada

Work

Physics Lab Instructor (Dalhousie University, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada)

Education

BSc + MSc in Physics (Université de Moncton), P. Phys.

Wikipedia

WikiProject Academic Journals, WikiProject Physics, Bot Approvals Group, + a bazillion other things (200000+ edits)

Intro

Main page

Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia (Shortcut: WP:JCW)

Original Bot/Coder

User:WikiStatsBOT/User:ThaddeusB (2009−10)

Current Bot/Coder

User:JL-Bot/User:JLaTondre (2011−present)

Main purpose

Help WikiProject Academic Journals prioritize work

What is JCW?

• A searchable compilation of all |journal= parameters from {{cite xxx}} templates on en-wiki
  • Based on citations like <ref name=Bloom1969>{{cite journal |last1=Bloom |first1=E. D. |display-authors=etal |year=1969 |title=High-Energy Inelastic e–p Scattering at 6° and 10° |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=23 |issue=16 |pages=930–934 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.23.930}}</ref>
  • Ignores named reference repeats like <ref name=Bloom1969/>
  • Ignores "manual" citations like <ref>Bloom, E. D. et al. "High-Energy Inelastic e–p Scattering at 6° and 10°". Physical Review Letters, 23 (16): 930–934. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.23.930</ref>
• Available at WP:JCW (with disclaimers / caveats)

• By alphabetical order WP:JCW/ALPHA
• By popularity (count) WP:JCW/POP ← Look at this one
• By missing entries WP:JCW/MIS
• By target WP:JCW/TAR
• Updated twice per month
• See also WP:MCW for Magazines cited by Wikipedia

• Designed to identify high-interest areas lacking coverage, and high-interest problem areas
• Framework gives several side benefits, or puts them within easy reach
  • Creation and identification of redirects
    • Abbreviations J. Phys. → Journal of Physics
    • Former names Annales de Physique → European Physical Journal H
    • Common typos/spelling variants Annual Reviews of ... → Annual Review of ...
  • Categorization of redirects and corresponding targets (more on this later)

Identification/Categorization

Basic status

• Blue = Exist
• Red = Does not exist
• Bold = Article
• Italics = Redirect
• Underline = Disambiguation

Categorization (see exact rules)

• Hierarchical keyword-based approach
  • ISO 4 > Journals > Magazines > Newspapers > Websites > Books > Databases > Publishers
• Looks for {{R from ISO 4}} first (extremely reliable)
• Looks for (foobar) disambiguator in title (very reliable)
• Looks in foobar in categories (reliable)
  • Category keywords are a bit different (plurals/less variations)
• Looks for foobar in titles (not very reliable)

Filtering

• |journal=[[Foo|Bar]] is treated as |journal=Bar
• markup and whitespace is stripped and normalized
• |journal= is often misused for books, magazines, websites, or contains wrong/extraneous data like authors/publisher/volume/page
• |journal= also has many abbreviated variants (standard and non-standard), spelling variants, punctuation variants, typos
  • Redirect creation, cleanup efforts, etc.

Ranking

Highlights

Breakdown

• 3 databases
• 1 encyclopedia (Wikipedia)
• 73 journals (standalone)
• 12 journal series
• 8 magazines
• 3 newspapers

Top 100 entries

• 16 open access journals (1 research-articles only)
• 36 closed access (pay option for all/most of them)
• Embargo
  • 06 months – 13 journals
  • 12 months – 27 journals
  • 24 months – 2 journals
  • 36 months – 1 journal
  • ?? months – 1 journal
• 7 non-journals / indeterminate status

Publishers in the top 100

• Elsevier (×10)
  • Cell Press (×5)
  • Academic Press (×1)
• Oxford University Press (×7)
• Nature Publishing Group (×6)
  • Springer Nature (x1)
• American Society for Microbiology (x3)
• ACS Publications (×3)
• John Wiley & Sons (×3)
  • Wiley-VCH (×1)
• American Physical Society (×2)
• American Psychological Association (x2)
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (x2)
• IOP Publishing (×2)
• Royal Society (×2)
• Taylor & Francis (x2)
• Springer Science+Business Media (x1)
  • Springer Nature (x1)
• 48 others appearing only once

Table

Rank	Type	Target	Open-access?	Publisher	Total Citations	Distinct Articles
1	Journal	Nature	No	Nature Publishing Group	31235	18352
2	Journal	Journal of Biological Chemistry	12 months	American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	30023	11836
3	Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	06 months	US National Academy of Sciences	28519	17641
4	Journal	Science	No	American Association for the Advancement of Science	22872	13679
5	Database	IUCN Red List	Yes	International Union for Conservation of Nature	20016	19370
6	Journal	The Astrophysical Journal / Letters / Supplement	12 months	IOP Publishing	13909	5903
7	Journal	Astronomy and Astrophysics	12 months	EDP Sciences	13173	5302
8	Journal	Genome Research	06 months	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press	9595	5859
9	Magazine	Billboard	?	?	9370	3722
10	Journal	PLOS One	Yes	Public Library of Science	9200	6747
11	Journal	Cell	12 months	Cell Press	8421	5263
12	Newspaper	Lloyd's List	?	Informa	8363	128
13	Series	The Lancet series [~13]	No	Elsevier	6394	3808
14	Journal	Journal of the American Chemical Society	No	ACS Publications	5793	2954
15	Journal	Nature Genetics	No	Nature Publishing Group	5707	4484
16	Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society	36 months	Oxford University Press	5681	3362
17	Journal	Nucleic Acids Research	Yes	Oxford University Press	5622	3479
18	Journal	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	12 months	Microbiology Society	5563	4260
19	Journal	Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications	No	Elsevier	5479	3863
20	Journal	Molecular and Cellular Biology	No	Elsevier	5419	2926
21	Journal	The New England Journal of Medicine	06 months	Massachusetts Medical Society	5349	3602
22	Journal	The BMJ	Yes (Research-only)	BMJ	5317	3437
23	Magazine	Flight International	?	Reed Business Information	5288	1504
24	Journal	The Astronomical Journal	12 months	IOP Publishing	5133	3377
25	Journal	Genomics	No	Elsevier	4933	3765
26	Journal	Gene	No	Elsevier	4569	2874
27	Journal	Zootaxa	Embargo?	Magnolia Press	4543	3571
28	Journal	Physical Review Letters	No	American Physical Society	4441	2130
29	Journal	The EMBO Journal	12 months	EMBO Press	4440	2954
30	Series	Trends in... series [~15]	No	Elsevier	4143	3231
31	Series	Proceedings of the Royal Society series [~2]	24 months A, 12 months B	Royal Society	4112	2957
32	Series	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta series [~10]	No*	Elsevier	3894	2983
33	Series*	Physical Review series (without A, B, E, X, Applied, Letters)	No	American Physical Society	3806	1713
34	Journal	American Journal of Human Genetics	06 months	Cell Press	3760	2282
35	Journal	Biochemistry	No	ACS Publications	3689	2590
36	Journal	Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews	12 months	John Wiley & Sons	3676	1779
37	Journal	Icarus	24 months	Elsevier	3626	1901
38	Journal	FEBS Letters	12 months	John Wiley & Sons	3551	2758
39	Journal	Biochemical Journal	12 months	Portland Press	3349	2590
40	Journal	Current Biology	06 months	Cell Press	3126	2403
41	Journal	Oncogene	No	Nature Publishing Group	3120	1816
42	Journal	Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology	No	Taylor & Francis	3104	1743
43	Journal	Journal of Cell Biology	06 months	Rockefeller University Press	3071	1825
44	Journal	JAMA	No	American Medical Association	3063	2185
45	Journal	Journal of Molecular Biology	12 months	Elsevier	2979	2102
46	Journal	Blood	12 months	American Society of Hematology	2787	1647
47	Journal	Myconet	No	Field Museum of Natural History	2737	2735
48	Journal	Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society	12 months	Royal Society	2709	1702
49	Journal	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution	No	Academic Press	2705	2272
50	Journal	The Journal of Neuroscience	06 months	Society for Neuroscience	2665	1637
51	Journal	Cancer Research	12 months	American Association for Cancer Research	2633	1817
52	Newspaper	The New York Times	No	A.G. Sulzberger	2614	1858
53	Series	Annual Review of series [~47]	No*	Annual Reviews	2558	2149
54	Journal	Journal of Immunology	12 months	The American Association of Immunologists	2491	1425
55	Journal	Mycologia	No	Taylor & Francis	2491	1602
56	Journal	Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society	Yes	American Mathematical Society	2466	1460
57	Magazine	The New Yorker	No	Condé Nast	2457	1269
58	Journal	Human Molecular Genetics	12 Months	Oxford University Press	2448	1707
59	Journal	Journal of Bacteriology	06 Months	American Society for Microbiology	2374	1605
60	Series	Journal of Geophysical Research series [~7]	No	American Geophysical Union	2372	1279
61	Journal	The FEBS Journal	12 Months	John Wiley & Sons	2369	1931
62	Journal	Journal of Virology	06 Months	American Society for Microbiology	2242	1270
63	Journal	Angewandte Chemie	12 Month	Wiley-VCH	2201	1436
64	Magazine	Inside Soap	No	Hearst Communications	2181	603
65	Journal	Genes & Development	06 Months	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press	2115	1418
66	Journal	Molecular Cell	12 Months	Cell Press	2111	1418
67	Database	UniProt	Yes	UniProt Consortium	2051	1989
68	Database	List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature	Yes	International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes	2022	2021
69	Series	BMC series [~67]	Yes	BioMed Central	1971	1718
70	Magazine	Rolling Stone	No	Wenner Media/BandLab Technologies	1943	1618
71	Journal	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology	No	American Psychological Association	1907	766
72	Journal	American Journal of Botany	12 Months	Botanical Society of America	1886	1443
73	Series	Current Opinion series [~20]	No	Elsevier	1874	1513
74	Journal	Nature Biotechnology	No	Nature Publishing Group	1822	1480
75	Journal	Journal of Clinical Investigation	Yes	American Society for Clinical Investigation	1819	1447
76	Journal	Space Science Reviews	No	Springer	1763	1665
77	Encyclopedia	Wikipedia	Yes	Wikimedia Foundation	1763	1259
78	Series	Frontiers in... series [~59]	Yes	Frontiers Media	1736	1428
79	Magazine	Time	No	Meredith Corporation	1735	1411
80	Journal	Journal of Cell Science	06 Months	The Company of Biologists	1732	1315
81	Journal	Bulletins of American Paleontology	Yes (2008+)	Paleontological Research Institution	1723	1491
82	Series	American Journal of Physiology series [~8]	12 Months	American Physiological Society	1710	1205
83	Series	Circulation series [~7]	12 Months	Lippincott Williams & Wilkins	1666	1007
84	Journal	Neuron	12 Months	Cell Press	1660	1078
85	Journal	The Auk	06 Months	American Ornithological Society	1651	1114
86	Magazine	Scientific American	No	Springer Nature	1643	1435
87	Journal	Scientific Reports	Yes	Nature Publishing Group	1606	1282
88	Journal	DNA Research	Yes	Oxford University Press	1589	1310
89	Journal	Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society	12 Months	Oxford University Press	1582	1289
90	Journal	Journal of Paleontology	No	Paleontological Society	1578	1002
91	Journal	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	06 Months	American Society for Microbiology	1539	1167
92	Journal	Journal of Medicinal Chemistry	No	ACS Publications	1539	1074
93	Journal	Nature Communications	Yes	Nature Publishing Group	1538	1281
94	Journal	Pediatrics	12 Months	American Academy of Pediatrics	1501	1040
95	Journal	Molecular Biology and Evolution	12 Months	Oxford University Press	1491	1093
96	Magazine	Variety	No	Penske Media Corporation	1478	899
97	Journal	ZooKeys	Yes	Pensoft Publishers	1471	1242
98	Journal	Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society	No	Bombay Natural History Society	1466	442
99	Journal	The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism	12 Months	Oxford University Press	1462	856
100	Newspaper, Ambiguous	Royal Gazette	—	—	1454	752