Wulfenia (journal)

Wulfenia  
Discipline Botany
Language English
Edited by Roland K. Eberwein
Publication details
Publisher
Regional Museum of Carinthia (Austria)
Publication history
 1994-present
Frequency Annually
Indexing
ISSN 1561-882X
OCLC no. 311991108
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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 1994 and the editor-in-chief is Roland K. Eberwein (Carinthian Botanic Center).

Scam

Wulfenia journal is one of the first hijacked journals. The journal has been 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".[1][2][3][4][5]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

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".[6]

References

  1. ↑ Hodgkinson, Matt (9 September 2012). "Will the real Wulfenia journal please stand up?". Retrieved 15 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "Two Print Journals Completely Hijacked by Online Hoodlums". Scholarly Open Access. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
  3. ↑ "Landesmuseum Kärnten". landesmuseum.ktn.gv.at. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Hijacked Journal List: List of Hijacked Journals and Fake Publishers, First Edition".
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Plant Sciences". 2011 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012.

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