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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:34, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Declined PROD. Prod reason was: Non-notable journal having published a small number of papers since 2003. Apparently not indexed anywhere. Does not meet WP:Notability (academic journals) or WP:GNG. Crusio (talk) 08:33, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Need to see some affirmative responses that might suggest notability. Shadowjams (talk) 09:19, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Since this is new and apparently unindexed, the best chance of passing WP:Notability (academic journals) would seem to be criterion #2, heavy citations from other sources. But when I look in Google scholar I see only 25 papers, almost all with single-digit citations, and an h-index of 4, not good enough. I know it says in NAJ that Google scholar is not good enough, but how else are we to find citations to unindexed online journals? I did find an Australian ranking that ranks it at level C2 (not a good place to be ranked) but that doesn't seem to help any of the NAJ criteria. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:53, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:27, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:27, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Actually, you can find citations in the Science Citation Index even to non-indexed journals, if they have been cited by indexed journals. The trick often is to find the correct search term, because you cannot do a "cited reference search" using a journal's full title. I ran a search for "Internet J Cr*" and got 14 articles that had been cited 4, 2, and 1 times, basically confirming you GS search. --Crusio (talk) 11:19, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. I attempted to find sources that would perhaps help this journal pass the general notability guideline but could not. It certainly does not pass the more lenient WP:Notability (academic journals) essay. Abductive (reasoning) 07:25, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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