''Wulfenia: Mitteilungen des Kärntner Botanikzentrums'' is a print-only

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published by the Regional Museum of Carinthia. It was established in 1998 and the

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is Roland K. Eberwein (Carinthian Botanic Center).

Scam

Wulfenia journal is one of the first

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s. The journal has been the subject of an online scam, with fake web addresses such as www.wulfeniajournal.at, www.wulfeniajournal.com, and www.multidisciplinarywulfenia.org illegally re-posting copies of the original journal articles and inviting scientists to pay large fees before their works are considered for "publication".

Abstracting and indexing

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

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'', the journal has a 2011

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of 0.267, ranking it 178th out of 190 journals in the category "Plant Sciences".

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