The Nautilus (journal)

Not to be confused with Nautilus (science magazine) or The Nautilus (magazine).

The Nautilus is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in malacology. Hence its scope includes all aspects of the biology, ecology, and systematics of mollusks.^[1]

The Nautilus

Journal cover of The Nautilus 88(1). This design was used from 1972 to 1986.
Discipline	Malacology
Language	English
Edited by	José H. Leal
Publication details
Former name(s)	The Conchologists’ Exchange
History	1886-present
Publisher	Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	After 3-6 years
License	1886-1983 97(1-2) public domain
Impact factor	1.000 (2019)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Nautilus
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	NUTLA5
ISSN	0028-1344
LCCN	sf80000648
OCLC no.	1759527
Links
Journal homepage Online access of older volumes at Biodiversity Heritage Library

The first two volumes were published by shell trader William D. Averell (1853-1928) under the name The Conchologists’ Exchange.^[2] From 1958 to 1972, the subtitle of The Nautilus was "The Pilsbry Quarterly devoted to the Interests of Conchologists".^[2]

Since 1999, its publication is partly sponsored by Florida's Division of Cultural Affairs^[1] and the National Endowment for the Arts since 2002.^[3]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents, Science Citation Index, and The Zoological Record.^[1] According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2019 impact factor is 1.00.^[4]

Name

The name of the journal is taken from the common name and scientific name of the shelled cephalopod, the nautilus.

Editors

Editors of The Nautilus included notable malacologists:^[2]

• William D. Averell (1853–1928), editor and business manager (1886–1889)
• Charles Willison Johnson (1863–1932), business manager (1890–1932)
• Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957), editor (1889–1957)
• Horace Burrington Baker (1889–1971), editor (1958–1968), business manager since 1932
• Charles B. Wurtz (1916–1982), editor since 1958
• Robert Tucker Abbott (1919–1995), editor (1968–1995)
• Myroslaw George Harasewych (born 1949), editor (1985–1998)
• José H. Leal (born 1952), managing editor (1997), editor (1998–present)