WikiJournal of Science/Contribute

You can contribute to the WikiJournal of Science in many ways: you can submit an article, review an article, or participate in the ongoing discussions.

Submit an article
Are you proud of any science article you've written on Wikiversity, Wikipedia or any other Wikimedia wiki? Then your article may be eligible for publication at the WikiJournal of Science! To submit an article, follow these steps:


 * 1) Add a link to it in the list of articles awaiting reviewer.
 * 2) Wait for someone to take on the job of reviewing your article. You will be notified when that happens. In the meantime, read the steps for reviewing an article to get a grasp of the process from the other side, and consider reviewing someone else's article.
 * 3) Wait for the reviewer to contact you with corrections. Do the corrections and wait again, until your article is approved or rejected.
 * 4) If your article is approved, you may be required to write a short abstract of it for publication.

If you want to peer-review a submitted article, follow these steps. If you wish to remain anonymous, follow the same steps, but do so while logged out.


 * 1) Browse the list of articles awaiting reviewer or list of articles awaiting a second or third reviewer and pick an article close to your speciality.
 * 2) Move the article to the list of articles under review, if not already there, and leave your user name next to it.
 * 3) Notify the author of the article that you're reviewing it.
 * 4) Review the article taking into consideration the review guidelines.
 * 5) If the article is good but has fixable errors, describe the issues in the talk page of the article, and ask the author to fix them. Else move it to the list of rejected articles explaining your reasons in the talk page of the article.
 * 6) Once the article meets the criteria and has your approval, move it to the list of articles approved for the next issue, and copy the oldid of the exact version you reviewed next to it.

The WikiJournal of Science, as part of the Wikimedia movement, favors public peer review over blind peer review.

In preparation by authors

 * Generic Tuple Store Last updated on 2 November 2020. (none)
 * Speciation by reinforcement. Last updated on 27 July 2022‎. (Q2745797)
 * Planet Nine. Last updated on 6 December 2020. (Q22133699)
 * Atlantis/Location Hypotheses - Review by (started 25 April 2017) (finished 1 May 2017), revision by authors (started 20 May 2017) (ongoing), first revision review by  (started 2 June 2017) (ongoing). Last updated on 18 June 2022. (Q25373 for Atlantis)
 * Functional Tuple Store Last updated on 16 July 2020‎. (none)
 * Multicast. Last updated on 11 May 2019. (Q899288)
 * C10orf71 - Editorial comments by Marshallsumter submitted on 7 February 2019. Comments by Thomas Shafee submitted on 7 February 2019. Responses concluded on 26 July 2019‎. Last updated on 2 November 2020. (Q18049320)
 * Mount Mazama. Last updated on 4 December 2020. (Q1201788)
 * An Overview of the Deep-focus Earthquakes in Northeast China. Last updated: 27 September 2018. (none)
 * Genome-Wide Association Studies Last updated on 4 December 2020. (none)
 * Sunflower Trypsin Inhibitor. Last updated on 22 August 2018. (Q7640042)
 * Cognitive architecture for storing domain-specific knowledge in a hierarchical task network. Last updated: 5 December 2020. (none)
 * Life Cycle Assessment methodology. Last updated 17 June 2018. (none)
 * COVID-19 ELIMINATION AND CELLDIFFERENTIATION Last updated 30 November 2021 (PARTHASARATHI.N)

Declined for publication

 * Myxomatosis - Review by Morgan P Kain submitted on 20 September 2019. Review by Justine Philip submitted on 12 November 2019. Third review by anonymous submitted on 4 December 2019. Withdrawn by submitting author. (Q1342455)
 * The Effect of Captivity On Birds. Having discussed this article with the WikiJSci editorial board, on this occasion we must decline the submission on 28 August 2019. (none)
 * Correlation and path analysis of rainfed lowland rice - Review by Watcharin Soonsuwon submitted on 20 December 2018. Declined due to our inability to secure suitable peer reviewers for it. (Q81239321)
 * Story based tracking control with hierarchical planning. This article has been declined for publication by the WikiJournal publishing group on 19 June 2018‎. (Q81239612)

Articles under review

 * Non-canonical base pairing - Review by Marta Szachniuk submitted on 26 February 2019. Responses concluded on 17 December 2019‎. Second review by anonymous submitted on 26 February 2019. Responses concluded on 17 December 2019‎. Editorial comments by Marshallsumter submitted on 26 February 2019. Comments by Thomas Shafee submitted on 26 February 2019. (Q39049436)

Articles accepted

 * WikiJournal of Science/Grainyhead-like Genes in Regulating Development and Genetic Defects - Review by anonymous submitted on 19 August 2019. Responses concluded on 17 December 2019‎. Second review by Ulla Hansen with Sarah Yunes submitted on 18 January 2019. Responses concluded on 20 December 2019‎. Accepted for publication 16 February 2020‎. (Q81334143)
 * WikiJournal of Science/Can each number be specified by a finite text? - Review by Laureano Luna submitted on 24 March 2019. Responses concluded on 2 April 2019. Second Review by Ehud Hrushovski on 22 Sep 2020. Third Review by Igor Rivin submitted on 23 Sep 2020. Fourth Review by Mikhail Sodin submitted on 25 Sep 2020. Accepted 28 October 2020 (Q81333757)
 * WikiJournal of Science/The TIM barrel fold - Review by Cristina Elisa Martina submitted on 4 April 2019. Responses concluded on 2 February 2020‎. Second peer review by Reinhard Sterner. Third Review by C. Robert Matthew. accepted for publication 9 March 2020. (Q4994304)
 * WikiJournal of Science/Virtual colony count - Review by anonymous submitted on 26 July 2019. Responses concluded on 26 July 2019‎. Second peer review by Jen Payne submitted on 27 August 2019. Responses concluded on 17 September 2019‎. Third peer review by anonymous submitted on 27 September 2019. Responses concluded on 20 January 2020. Accepted for publication: 16 February 2020. (Q7935084)
 * WikiJournal of Science/A broad introduction to RNA-Seq - First peer review by Till Adhikary received 27 January 2020‎, second peer review by Martin Hölzer received 3 May 2021. Accepted 17 May 2021‎.
 * WikiJournal of Science/Earth-grazing meteoroid of 13 October 1990 - Editorial comments by Marshallsumter submitted on 5 January 2020. First review by Lukáš Shrbený received 22 January 2020. Second review by Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez received 23 January 2020. Responses concluded on 24 January 2020.
 * Paranthodon - Review by David Button (submitted 11 July 2018), revision completed 18 October 2018. Second review by Niclas Borinder submitted on 25 January 2019. Responses concluded on 31 January 2019‎. No third review forthcoming. (Q135602)
 * Widgiemoolthalite - Review by Robert Hazen submitted on 14 May 2019. Responses concluded on 14 May 2019. Editorial comments submitted by Marshallsumter on 26 May 2019. Responses concluded on 28 May 2019. Second peer review by Braam Smit submitted on 7 July 2019. Responses concluded on 7 July 2019. (Q4019683)
 * Lysenin - Editorial comments began 6 February 2019 and were concluded on 9 August 2019. First review by Daniel Fologea submitted on 30 April 2019. Responses concluded on 15 May 2019‎. A spontaneous review submitted by Sreenandhini on 15 May 2019. Responses concluded on 7 August 2019‎. Second peer review by Milda Plečkaitytė submitted on 28 July 2019. Responses concluded on 7 August 2019‎. (Q76846397)
 * Binary search algorithm - Last updated: 04 November 2018. Suggestions by spontaneous reviewer received on 26 November 2018. First review received on 22 February 2019. Second invited review received on 22 February 2019. Responses to reviews concluded on 19 June 2019‎. (Q243754)
 * Teladorsagia circumcincta - Review by Andrew Forbes submitted on 20 December 2018. Responses concluded on 7 February 2019. Second review by Joaquin M. Prada submitted on 10 January 2019. Responses concluded on 10 February 2019‎. Third review by Valentina Busin submitted on 19 January 2019. Responses concluded on 10 February 2019‎. (Q63328534)
 * Baryonyx - Review by Christophe Hendrickx submitted on 11 May 2018, second peer review submitted on 13 May 2018, additional peer review on Wikipedia submitted on 17 December 2018. Responses to reviews concluded 20 December 2018. (Q131006)
 * Ice drilling methods - Review by Kendrick Taylor (submitted 24 October 2018), second review by Dennis V. Duling (submitted 17 February 2019). Revision by authors started and completed 20 February 2019‎. Third review, anonymous (submitted 21 February 2019). Revision by authors started and completed 23 February 2019‎. Followup from third reviewer received and responded to by authors and completed 24 March 2019. Followup from first reviewer received and responded to by authors and completed 11 April 2019. (Q63133851)
 * RIG-I like receptors - Review by Teunis Geijtenbeek, received 22 November 2018. Responses to first review concluded by 13 February 2019. Second review received by Ying Kai Chan received 9 December 2018. Responses concluded by 13 February 2019. (Q62604415)
 * Peripatric speciation - Review by Marta Nieto-Lugilde (submitted 12 June 2018), second review by anonymous peer reviewer (submitted 13 June 2018). Revision by authors started 21 June 2018, concluded 3 August 2018.
 * Lead: properties, history, and applications - Review by (started 7 December 2017) (finished 2 January 2018), second review by Jaclyn Catalano (submitted 04 January 2017), third review by anonymous peer reviewer (submitted 06 January 2017), fourth review by Robert M. Gogal Jr. (submitted 12 January 2017). Revision by authors started 26 January 2018 (finished 12 June 2018). (Q708)
 * ShK toxin: history, structure and therapeutic applications for autoimmune diseases - Review by Heike Wulff (submitted 06 March 2018), second review by anonymous peer reviewer (submitted 10 May 2018). Revision by authors started 12 May 2018, finished 13 May 2018‎. (Q55120296)
 * Lysine: Biosynthesis, Catabolism and Roles - Review by Tom Leustek (submitted 15 February 2018). Revision by authors 23 February 2018‎. Second review by Sander Houten (submitted 27 March 2018). Revision by authors 11 April 2018. (Q55120301)
 * A card game for Bell's theorem and its loopholes - Review by Franck Laloë (submitted 19 March 2018), second review by AJP anonymous peer reviewer (submitted 22 March 2018), third review by anonymous peer reviewer (submitted 25 March 2018). Revision by authors started 24 March 2018, finished 14 May 2018. (Q55120315)
 * Radiocarbon dating - Review by (started 22 November 2017) (finished 13 December 2017‎), revision by authors (started 22 November 2017) (finished 13 December 2017), second review by anonymous peer reviewer (submitted 14 February 2018), third review by Timothy Jull (submitted 17 April 2018). Revision by authors started 19 April 2018, finished 1 May 2018. (Q55120317)
 * Spaces in mathematics - Submitted by - Review by  (started 5 June 2017) (finished 14 June 2017), revision by authors (started 6 June 2017) (finished 10 June 2017), first revision review by  (started 14 June 2017) (finished 14 June 2017). Second review by anonymous peer reviewer (submitted 02 November 2017), revision by authors (started 3 November 2017, finished 25 November 2017). Third review by Gaëtan Borot (submitted 04 April 2018), revision by authors (started 7 April 2018, finished 15 April 2018). (Q55120290)

Articles rejected

 * Surface tension - Review by José Bico (submitted 9 August 2018), second review by Derek Chan (submitted 17 August 2018). Revision by authors not started. (Q170749)
 * Dialectic algorithm - By Sophivorus - Review by (started 25 October 2016) (finished 3 November 2016), revision by authors (started 27 October 2016) (finished 3 November 2016). Review by  (started 5 June 2017) (finished 15 August 2017), revision by authors (started 13 August 2017) (finished 14 August 2017), first revision review by  (started 15 August 2017) (finished 15 August 2017), 2nd revision by authors (started 16 September 2017) (finished 16 September 2017). Review by anonymous peer reviewer (started & finished 9 November 2017), revision by authors (started & finished 9 November 2017). Review by 2nd anonymous peer reviewer (started & finished 9 November 2017), revision by authors (started 9 November 2017) (finished 17 December 2017). (Q28043973 redirects to DebateTree algorithm on Wikiversity)
 * Alpha Centauri - Review by (19 January 2016), Review by  (27 May 2017), awaiting a third review, revision by authors (18 July 2017), no comments since. (Q12176)
 * How things work college course/Quantum mechanics timeline - Review by (3 July 2017), awaiting revision by author Guy vandegrift, awaiting second review, no comments from author at all. (none, see below)
 * Timeline of quantum mechanics (abridged) and Abridged timeline of quantum mechanics - Review by (4 August 2017), revision by authors (24 June 2017), awaiting second review, no comments from authors at all since 24 June 2017. (Redirects to User:Guy vandegrift/Timeline of quantum mechanics (abridged) on Wikiversity) and (Q7806180)
 * Advanced Classical Mechanics/The Eikonal Approximation and Classical Particle Motion - Review by (17 June 2017), awaiting a second review, revision by authors (19 June 2017), no comments since. (Q649478)
 * Introduction to quantum mechanics - Review by (15 February 2016), submitter's responses (15 February 2016), Review by  (1 July 2017), awaiting a third review, revision by authors (11 June 2017), no further comments since. (Q3238797)
 * Astronomical spectroscopy - Review by (26 May 2017), no comments from authors at all. (Q752171)
 * Space - Movement - Matter and Relativity of Time - Review by (26 April 2017), Review by  (3 May 2017), no comments from author at all. (none)
 * Draft:Demonstration of the No Relativity of Time - Review by (1 May 2017), Review by  (10 May 2017, no comments from author at all, initial review 25 April 2017). (none)
 * Irrefutable Truths of Life - Review by (1 May 2017), no comments from author at all. (none)