The Veliger

Summary

The Veliger was a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering malacology. The journal was established in 1958 and published its last issue in September, 2014. It was published by the California Malacozoological Society and Northern California Malacozoological Club.[1]

The Veliger
DisciplineMalacology
LanguageEnglish
Publication details
History1958-2014
Publisher
California Malacozoological Society and Northern California Malacozoological Club (United States)
0.462 (2013)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Veliger
Indexing
ISSN0042-3211
LCCN65006141
OCLC no.488613692
Links

Abstracting and indexing edit

The journal is abstracted and indexed by:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 0.462.[4]

Hijacking edit

In March 2015 it was reported that The Veliger had been hijacked by a journal calling itself Veliger: An International Journal in Science.[5] In contrast to the real journal, the fake one has a website, and covers all areas of science. Although authors need to pay a high article processing charge to have their articles published, only paid subscribers to the fake journal can access them. The fake journal links to the archives of the real one, and gives the impression that the impact factor and inclusion in Scopus and Thomson Reuters databases of the latter also applies to them.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ "The Veliger". loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
  3. ^ "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
  4. ^ "The Veliger". 2013 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2014.
  5. ^ a b Beall, Jeffrey (2015-03-31). "Berkeley, California-Based Journal is Hijacked". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-04-01.