Specific requirements

Per application form:

1. Most recent articles (x9 PDF upload) or most recent issues (x3 PDF upload)
   • ...
2. Table of contents for a complete issue (x1 PDF upload)
   • WikiJournal_of_Science/Volume_2_Issue_1 as PDF
3. Aims & scope
   • Adapted from WikiJournal_of_Science/About:
   • WikiJSci is an open access journal in STEM topics, published free of charge.
   • The journal aims to ensure accurate scientific information is published in a way that maximises its public good. The journal has a particularly strong outreach and public impact focus via it's 'Wikipedia-integration' features: Articles that pass peer-review are published as a citable, indexed PDF, and suitable text and images are integrated into Wikipedia and related projects (with a link to the indexed PDF). The vast readership of Wikipedia results in a high effective impact of included works. It therefore enables academic and research professionals to contribute expert knowledge to the Wikimedia movement in the academic publishing format that directly rewards them with citable publications. Peer reviews are published alongside articles for transparency and auditability.
   • The journal's scope is science, technology, engineering and mathematics, broadly construed. The journal publishes both review articles and original research in various formats. The journal targets a broad population spanning from advanced researchers and academics to students and laypersons, wherein the latter can get quick explanations of advanced terms by in-line links to Wikipedia.
4. Start year of current title
   • 2017
5. Has this title undergone any name changes, mergers or splits (prev. names and dates)
   • No (name change was before first publication)
6. Contact emails
7. Link to the publication ethics and publication malpractice statement
   • https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Science/Ethics_statement
8. Frequency
   • Continuous
9. Average number of research articles and review articles published per year
   • 13 (12 over 11 months)
10. Are all articles published in English
    • Yes
11. Do all articles have English-language abstracts and article
    • Yes
12. Do the articles have references in Roman alphabet
    • Yes
13. Which type of peer review applies to this title (editor review / Open peer review / Single-blind peer review / Double-blind peer review)
    • Open Peer review
14. Please provide a detailed description of the peer review process:
    • Peer review is coordinated by members of the editorial board and associate editors. Peer reviewers are given the option to be anonymous (only 20% choose anonymity). All articles must have 2 peer reviewers agree to its publication (average=3). https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Science/Peer_reviewers
15. What is the geographic distribution of editors of the title
    • International - different continents (different continent / same continent / same country / same institution)
16. Please list some examples of countries of editors (if any countries predominate, please indicate)
    • Australia x2, Brazil, USA x7, Germany x2, UK x4, South Africa, Canada x2, Italy, France, India x2, Netherlands, Switzerland
17. What is the geographic distribution of authors publishing in this title:
    • International - different continents (different continent / same continent / same country / same institution)
18. Please list some examples of countries of authors (if any countries predominate, please indicate)
    • Israel, Singapore x3, USA x6, Australia x 7, Russia
19. Provide information about the main handling editor(s) of the title (x3) : Name, affiliation, country, online professional information
    • Thomas Shafee, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/display/tshafee
    • Melanie Stefan, University of Edinburgh, UK, http://melaniestefan.net/
    • Florian Weller, University of Cape Town, South Africa, http://www.eafsa.uct.ac.za/florian-weller-dr-0
20. What is the geographic distribution of authors publishing in this title (different continent / same continent / same country / same institution)
    • International - different continents
21. Is the title (co-)published on behalf of a scientific society
    • No
22. Does the serial title have DOIs which are registered with CrossRef
    • Yes
23. Is the title already indexed in other bibliographic databases
    • Yes
24. Does this title offer open access to its full-text content (yes / no / yes+DOAJ)
    • Yes+DOAJ
25. Other comments / remarks
    • Our sister journal, WikiJournal of Medicine, applied to SCOPUS in March 2017. Since we share the same format, we would like to note how those concerns have been addressed in the past two years.
      • In addition to encyclopedic reviews, original research articles are published (typically with a focus on science teaching, e.g. doi:10.15347/wjm/2015.004) as well as an editorial to introduce our intentions for the journal, doi:10.15347/wjs/2018.001. We also accept submission of figure and gallery articles as published in WikiJMed here and here.
      • Associate editors now apply with their credentials, and are now only brought on board after a vote. The voting process for associate editor applications has now been broaght in line with the same process for editorial boards.
      • We have a fully-developed publication ethics statement also vetted by COPE (membership number JM13664). In particular, this also outlines the journal's position on some of the unique features of its publication format (e.g. author expectations of content ownership after it is copied to Wikipedia)
    • Additionally we have improved our bylaws with advice from the WMF to make them more robust, and improved our public editorial guidelines to further improve transparency of our processes.
    • Finally, since March 2017, we believe that we have further developed the journal structure in all aspects. The editorial board includes members from a diverse range of academic expertise, as well as backgrounds in science communication, publishing and open-access and wikimedia projects. The journals aim for impact in scholarly citations, Altmetrics, and wide general public readership via integrating content into Wikipedia. Given the very wide reach of the articles (current readership >2.5 million per annum via Wikipedia) we are particularly cautious in our quality control. All plagiarism checks, peer reviews and editorial recommendations are public alongside the article.

SCOPUS Content policy and selection criteria

https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/how-scopus-works/content/content-policy-and-selection

Discussion

Now that WikiJSci is listed in DOAJ, I have made the submission to SCOPUS via the Title Suggestion form. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 06:17, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

As an update on this, I just emailed SCOPUS to check, and they stated that assessments are currently taking 6-12 months, so I'll check back in with them again next June if we don't hear anything sooner. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 10:04, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

The Scopus Title Evaluation Support team has just emailed to say that we need a publication history of at least 2 years before application. That places re-submission of the application in June of 2020. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 06:51, 16 December 2019 (UTC)