Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reviews and Advances in Chemistry

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. plicit 14:06, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reviews and Advances in Chemistry (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)
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Article PRODded with reason "Non-notable journal. Not indexed in any selective databases, no independent sources. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG." Article dePRODded with reason "some articles are indexed by CAS, I think this warrants a discussion at Afd if there is concern about notability." CAS is not a selective database in the sense of NJournals, so PROD reason still stands. Hence: delete. Randykitty (talk) 03:06, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Previously nominated via WP:PROD, ineligible for soft deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, plicit 03:51, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment: Any journal will have a smattering of citations, that is to be expected even from low-quality predatory journals. There's no indication that this goes beyond that. --Randykitty (talk) 09:44, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: The indexing services covering it are listed here (bottom of page). I don't know which ones count as "Selective" - I thought CAS was, so am clearly out of my depth. PamD 09:50, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I don't believe so - AFAIK they list anything and everything with a "chemical" tag in a published journal. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 10:00, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete based on our standard indexing criterion. Here is the list of indexes stated by the journal:
Baidu
CLOCKSS
CNKI
CNPIEC
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
Dimensions
EBSCO Discovery Service
Google Scholar
Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
Naver
OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
Portico
ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
Semantic Scholar
TD Net Discovery Service
WTI AG
Wanfang
- I'm not familiar with all of them, but none of the names we generally look for are in this list. (I'm guessing "Baidu" is Baidu's equivalent to Scholar...) --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 09:56, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete I'd suggest a redirect to Pleiades Publishing, but since that doesn't exist, deletion is the way to go. I will note here that Pleiades Publishing journals have often a Russian history, which often makes it worth looking for Russian sources on the subject, but I don't speak Russian. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 10:06, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.