Nested journal names

I recently noticed that three academic journals I was looking at had nested names:

• Canadian Journal of Public Health
• Journal of Public Health
• Public Health

I wondered how deeply nested you could go with journal names, so I had ChatGPT scour the Crossref database. It came up with two examples of journal names nesting seven layers deep (I confirmed all of the named journals exist in the CSV database extract).

First:

• QIT Press – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and Development
• International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and Development
• International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
• International Journal of Artificial Intelligence
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence
• Intelligence

Second:

• QIT Press – International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Research and Development
• International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Research and Development
• Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Research
• Computer Science and Engineering Research
• Computer Science and Engineering
• Computer Science
• Computer

Neither of these examples is particularly satisfying, as they both result from QIT Press prefixing its name to journal titles already used by other unrelated publications. QIT Press appears to be a predatory publisher possibly related to Science Publishing Group, a known predatory publisher, as they refer to themselves as such (presumably by accident) on their About Us page.

The following chain of six journals much more satisfying absurd, ending with the gloriously vague Research:

• American International Journal of Social Science Research
• International Journal of Social Science Research
• Journal of Social Science Research
• Social Science Research
• Science Research
• Research