Herpetological Conservation and Biology
| Herpetological Conservation and Biology | |
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Abbreviated title (ISO 4) | Herpetol. Conserv. Biol. |
| Discipline | Herpetology |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | R. Bruce Bury |
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| Publisher |
Herpetological Conservation and Biology (USA) |
Publication history | 2006–present |
| Frequency | 3 times a year |
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| License | open access |
| 0.653 | |
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| ISSN |
2151-0733 (print) 1931-7603 (web) |
| OCLC no. | 427887140 |
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Herpetological Conservation and Biology is a nonprofit peer-reviewed open-access online scientific journal established in 2006 that covers the conservation, management, and natural history of reptiles and amphibians. It publishes up to three regular issues per year as well as occasional monographs.
History and production
The need for the journal was first discussed at the 2005 SSAR/HL/ASIH joint meeting of herpetology.[1] The team grew to around 100 herpetologists[2] and the first organizational meeting was hosted by the US Geological Survey on June 14, 2006 in Henderson, Nevada. The journal was established later that year, with the first issue appearing in September 2006.[1] In 2012 it was included in the Journal Citation Reports.[3] In September, 2014, the journal became an incorporated nonprofit corporation.[4]
The editor-in-chief is R. Bruce Bury (US Geological Survey). The journal is open access and does not charge article processing fees or per-page costs to authors, without any limitations on article length. The journal has been cited as a successful model of low-cost academic publishing with production costs, paid by the editorial staff, of around US$100 per year.[5][2]
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:[6][7][8]
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Scopus
- The Zoological Record
- EMBiology
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 0.653.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Newsletters of the HCB journal committee 2005-2007
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fredette, Michelle (August 28, 2012). "Rewriting the Journal". Campus Technology.
- ↑ McCallum, Malcolm L. (2012). "Thomson Reuters reports the first official 2-year and 5-year impact ratings for HCB". Herpetological Conservation and Biology 7 (2).
- ↑ Saumure, Raymond A.; Walde, Andrew D. (2014). "Herpetological Conservation and Biology Incorporated". Herpetological Conservation and Biology 9 (3).
- ↑ Howard, Jennifer (January 30, 2011). "Scholars create influential journal for about $100 a year". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Archived from the original on 2011.
- ↑ "Statistics". Herpetological Conservation and Biology. Retrieved 2015-01-30.
- ↑ "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2015-01-31.
- ↑ HCB archive at the Internet Archive
- ↑ "Herpetological Conservation and Biology". 2013 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2014.