Herpetological Conservation and Biology

Herpetological Conservation and Biology

Discipline	Herpetology
Language	English
Edited by	R. Bruce Bury
Publication details
History	2006–present
Publisher	Herpetological Conservation and Biology (United States)
Frequency	Triannually
Open access	Yes
Impact factor	0.595 (2014)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Herpetol. Conserv. Biol.
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
ISSN	2151-0733  (print) 1931-7603  (web)
OCLC  no.	427887140
Links
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Herpetological Conservation and Biology is a peer-reviewed open access 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 journal was established in 2006, with the first issue appearing in September. ^[1] In 2012 it was included in the Journal Citation Reports . ^[2] In September 2014, the journal became an incorporated nonprofit corporation. ^[3]

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. ^{[4] [5]}

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences ^[6]
• Science Citation Index Expanded ^[6]
• Scopus ^[7]
• The Zoological Record ^[6]
• EMBiology

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 0.595. ^[8]

References

1. Newsletters of the HCB journal committee 2005-2007
2. McCallum, Malcolm L. (2012). "Thomson Reuters reports the first official 2-year and 5-year impact ratings for HCB" (PDF). Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 7 (2).
3. Saumure, Raymond A.; Walde, Andrew D. (2014). "Herpetological Conservation and Biology Incorporated" (PDF). Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 9 (3).
4. Howard, Jennifer (January 30, 2011). "Scholars create influential journal for about $100 a year". The Chronicle of Higher Education . Archived from the original on June 11, 2016. Alt URL Archived 2015-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
5. Fredette, Michelle (August 28, 2012). "Rewriting the Journal". Campus Technology.
6. "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2015-01-31.
7. "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier . Retrieved 2015-07-03.
8. "Herpetological Conservation and Biology". 2014 Journal Citation Reports . Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.

External links

• Official website