Wulfenia (journal)

Wulfenia
DisciplineBotany
LanguageEnglish
Edited byRoland K. Eberwein
Publication details
History1994-2022
Publisher
FrequencyAnnually
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Wulfenia
Indexing
ISSN1561-882X
OCLC no.311991108
Links

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

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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

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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".[8]

References

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  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.
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