The Veliger

For the larval stage, see Veliger.

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

Discipline	Malacology
Language	English
Publication details
History	1958-2014
Publisher	California Malacozoological Society and Northern California Malacozoological Club (United States)
Impact factor	0.462 (2013)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Veliger
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0042-3211
LCCN	65006141
OCLC no.	488613692
Links
Online archive at the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by:

• Science Citation Index Expanded^[2]
• Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences^[2]
• The Zoological Record^[2]
• BIOSIS Previews^[2]
• Scopus^[3]

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

Hijacking

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]