Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Questionable6

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This is The Wikipedia CiteWatch, a bot-compiled listing of potentially cargo cult, conspiracist, denialist, fake, junk, not even wrong, obsolete, predatory, pseudoscientific, quack, or otherwise unreliable publications cited by Wikipedia through the |journal= parameter of citation templates (see this Signpost article for details). It is based on several lists of unreliable or questionable publications (such as those compiled by Jeffrey Beall, the University Grants Commission, Quackwatch, or Wikipedia editors) and currently reflects the state of Wikipedia as of 20 June 2024. See Q9 in the FAQ for the update schedule.

This list is a starting point to detect unreliable sources which are cited by Wikipedia, but it does not answer whether it is appropriate to cite them. Due to the somewhat arbitrary nature of what exactly constitutes an unreliable source, as well as imperfect matching algorithms, the list may feature publications and publishers which...

are flat-out promoting pseudo/junk scholarship or quackery
are flat-out predatory/vanity venues, with sham peer-review processes
were once-reliable, but have since been acquired by predatory publishers
were once-unreliable, but no longer engage in problematic practices
reflect the sources' good but imperfect judgment of what is unreliable
are problematic in some areas (e.g. pseudoscience), but reliable in others (e.g. news)
are problematic in some other way (e.g. circular references, or deprecated sources)
are problematic but used in an acceptable manner (e.g. primary sources about frauds)
are misclassified because of a spelling variation (red links especially)
are misclassified because of false positives, miscategorization, or flawed bot logic
are reliable, but share names with imposter publications and publishers
are about pseudoscholarship as a topic, rather than being pseudoscholarly themselves

While many, if not most, publications and publishers on this list have some questionable aspects to their publishing practices, these can still be reliable (or be otherwise acceptable) in limited circumstances. The CiteWatch cannot determine the full context in which a source is used, therefore use common sense and judgement before removing a citation from an article (see Q8 in the FAQ). When in doubt, discuss things on the article's talk page or at the reliable sources noticeboard – especially before a mass purge of a source. The Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector user script may also interest you.

Additions and removals from the listing – including false positives – can be discussed at WT:CITEWATCH. False positives can also be directly handled at WP:JCW/EXCLUDE.

Rank	Target/Group	Entries (Citations, Articles)	Total Citations	Distinct Articles	Citations/article
501	Science Research Reporter [Beall's journal list · Lying about DOAJ]	Science Research Reporter (1 in 1)	1	1	1.000
502	The Electronic Intifada [WP:RSP § Generally unreliable] See WP:RSP#The Electronic Intifada.	The Electronic Intifada (1 in 1)	1	1	1.000
503	The Onion [WP:RSP § Generally unreliable] See WP:RSP#The Onion.	The Onion (1 in 1)	1	1	1.000
504	The Raw Story [WP:RSP § Generally unreliable] See WP:RSP#The Raw Story.	Raw Story The Raw Story (1 in 1)	1	1	1.000
505	The Skwawkbox [WP:RSP § Generally unreliable] See WP:RSP#The Skwawkbox.	The Skwawkbox Skwawkbox (1 in 1)	1	1	1.000
506	Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients [Quackwatch's list]	Townsend Letter Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (1 in 1)	1	1	1.000
507	Wikipedia:List of companies engaged in the self-publishing business [WP:SPSLIST]	Amazon (company) Amazon.com (1 in 1)	1	1	1.000

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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
Title (redlink): A red link means the article does not currently exist. This is either because the corresponding article did not exist at the time of the dump (regular red link), or has since been deleted (red link with formatting).
In an entry like The Foobar Journal (13 in 6), the "13 in 6" means that the entry was found 13 times in 6 article. When an entry is found in 5 or fewer articles, they will be listed for convenience.

Date

Compilation last updated on 1 July 2024. The Wikipedia CiteWatch results are based on the database dump of 20 June 2024, using this configuration, with these exclusions.

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