Aims & Scope

Aims

Mollusca (ISSN: 3043-2367) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that welcomes original research articles, reviews, and communications related to all aspects of malacology.

The journal aims to publish studies across all fields of malacology, such as molluscan phylogeny, taxonomy, paleobiology, morphology, development, and faunistics, in addition to interdisciplinary and applied studies such as aquaculture, fisheries science, environmental toxicology, and biodiversity conservation. To ensure scientific rigor and transparency, submissions are expected to explicitly detail their methodological frameworks, thereby enabling the reproducibility of outcomes. Furthermore, comprehensive and critical discussions of findings are essential, accompanied by compelling articulation of the study's broader implications and contributions across academia, industry, and society. To complement the primary research, extensive datasets and additional resources—such as videos, figures, and tables—are also welcomed as supplementary materials.

Scope

The journal covers all areas of malacology research including, but not limited to, the following:

• Systematics, taxonomy, and phylogeny
• Descriptive and comparative morphology
• Molluscan reproduction, embryology, and evolutionary developmental biology
• Molecular genetics, genomics, population genetics and microevolution, speciation, and cryptic species
• Palaeobiology and macroevolution
• Faunistics and biogeography
• Ecology, behavior, life cycles, and population dynamics
• Physiology, immunology, and pathology
• Aquaculture and fisheries science
• Environmental toxicology
• Species extinction and restoration
• Monitoring of molluscan invasive species and impact of climate change on molluscs.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Mollusca will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

Reprints

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