Talk:Acta Numerica

Notability question

I have been told that journals that are indexed by the two main indexes for math, Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH, meet WP:NJournals. If that isn't right, I'd love to know.

I have no idea what the edit comment "indexing services and impact factor are not apparent for this journal" means, since the article directly states the indexing services, and it is easy to verify them by searching for the journal on the respective indexes. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:41, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I added two points that help establish notability: a review of the first ten years of the journal, published in SIAM review, and the fact that this journal has the highest MCQ in MathSciNet. Both of these point to the fact that this journal warrants an article on Wikipedia. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:42, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On the web site, I see where it is listed in MathSciNet. However, I don't see where it is listed in Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH. Do you have a link to where to the indexing services are listed. Then I guess we can go from there. I don't see this journal listed on Thomson Reuters indicies, so I guess there is no impact factor. ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 01:05, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MathSciNet is the web version of Mathematical Reviews, they are the same service. You can just search for this journal on Zentralblatt to find it, in the "Serials and Journals" section. I also don't think this has an impact factor - who knows why - but it does have the highest MCQ of all journals in Math reviews. — Carl (CBM · talk) 01:17, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your feedback. It was very helpful. I found this journal listed on Zentralblatt MATH (cool!). And the other criteris presnted appears to establish notability. I am removing the tag. Thanks for your patience. I am thinking the infobox might need a parameter for the MCQ number? What do you think? ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 02:09, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great. If there was a parameter for the MCQ in the infobox I would put the number there, but I didn't want to press for it because the infobox looks complicated as is, and MCQ is only applicable to math journals. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:17, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Notability (academic journals) for criteria for notability for journals; I think the ten-year survey addresses criterion 1, and the MCQ clearly fulfils criterion 2. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:29, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]