Wulfenia (journal)

Wulfenia

Discipline	Botany
Language	English
Edited by	Roland K. Eberwein
Publication details
History	1994-2022
Publisher	Regional Museum of Carinthia (Austria)
Frequency	Annually
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Wulfenia
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1561-882X
OCLC no.	311991108
Links
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Wulfenia: Mitteilungen des Kärntner Botanikzentrums is a print-only peer-reviewed scientific journal of botany published by the Regional Museum of Carinthia. It was established in 1998[1] and the editor-in-chief is Roland K. Eberwein (Carinthian Botanic Center).

The journal published its last volume in 2022 and has ceased publication.[2]

Scam

Wulfenia journal is one of the first hijacked journals. The journal was the subject of an online scam, with fake web addresses such as www.wulfeniajournal.at, www.wulfeniajournal.com, and www.multidisciplinarywulfenia.org illegally re-posting copies of the original journal articles and inviting scientists to pay large fees before their works are considered for "publication".[3][4][5][6][7]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Referativnyi Zhurnal
• Scopus
• EMBiology
• Elsevier BIOBASE
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Biological Abstracts
• BIOSIS Previews
• The Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 0.267, ranking it 178th out of 190 journals in the category "Plant Sciences".[8]

References

1. Year of creation of the magazine in The International Plant Names Index
2. "WULFENIA". Retrieved 13 November 2024.
3. Hodgkinson, Matt (9 September 2012). "Will the real Wulfenia journal please stand up?". Retrieved 15 September 2012.
4. "Two Print Journals Completely Hijacked by Online Hoodlums". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
5. "Landesmuseum Kärnten". landesmuseum.ktn.gv.at. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
6. Jalalian, Mehrdad (2014). "Hijacked Journal List: List of Hijacked Journals and Fake Publishers, First Edition". doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.1057631. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
7. Jalalian, Mehrdad; Mahboobi, Hamidreza (2014). "Hijacked Journals and Predatory Publishers: Is There a Need to Re-Think How to Assess the Quality of Academic Research?". Walailak Journal of Science and Technology. 11 (5): 389–94.
8. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Plant Sciences". 2011 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012.

External links

• Official website