Talk:International Journal of Yoga

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A serious journal

Well, the journal publishes serious, quiet, peer-reviewed research into modern yoga and yoga more generally, and as such it has a place, at least, in a brief mention in that article, so I would favour a merge over deletion. Another possible home for it would be the Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana university. Of course if we can find other sources then the article may be able to stand on its own two feet.

Randykitty: I'm a little surprised by the removal of the statistics calculated by ResearchGate. These figures represent a very different kind of data from papers uploaded by nobody-knows-who to the ResearchGate portal for vanity or publicity. The statistics are provided by ResearchGate itself, so there seems no good reason to treat them in the same way as self-published papers, and I'd urge their reinstatement. Policy is made by humans, and they may not have considered such differences when placing the "not a Reliable Source" label on ResearchGate as a whole. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:13, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Redirecting and including a brief description as you have done is an excellent solution, thanks. As for the RG statistics, those have been heavily criticized. It's not a statistic that any academic pays any attention to and it most certainly is not an impact factor. RG scores (like many other scores that are around) are routinely removed from academic journal articles. We do list Clarivate Analytics IFs, which, like it or not, remain the metric that almost all academics (particularly in the biomedical and life sciences) pay attention to. --Randykitty (talk) 12:18, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the reply. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:19, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]