''The Veliger'' was a

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covering

malacology Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...

. 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.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2013

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of 0.462.

Hijacking

In March 2015 it was reported that ''The Veliger'' had been hijacked by a journal calling itself ''Veliger: An International Journal in Science''. 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

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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

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databases of the latter also applies to them.

References

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