From 2020 onward, the journal moves forward with the new publisher 

International Aquatic Research (IAR) is an international journal that publishes original research articles, short communications, and review articles in a broad range of areas relevant to all aspects of aquatic sciences (freshwater and marine). The Journal specifically strives to increase the knowledge of most aspects of applied researches in both cultivated and wild aquatic animals in the world. The journal is fully sponsored (is a 'Diamond' Open Access journal), which means it is free of charge for authors and readers. The journal operates a single-blind peer review process.

The main research areas in aquatic sciences include:

• Aquaculture
• Ecology
• Food science and technology
• Molecular biology
• Nutrition
• Physiology
• Water quality and pollution
• Climate Change

We invite researchers and scholars to contribute to our journal and share their valuable insights with the global scientific community. 

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. M.R. Ghomi, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany

Associate editors:

• Dr. Soottawat Benjakul, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
• Dr. Dharmendra Kumar Meena, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI), India
• Dr. Nicholas Romano, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, USA
• Dr. Elena Tricarico, University of Florence, Italy
• Dr. Wagner C. Valenti, Sao Paulo State University – UNESP, Brazil 

Print ISSN: 2008-4935

Online ISSN: 2008-6970

Frequency: Quarterly (March, June, September, December)

Publisher: IAU (Tonekabon)- Iran

Launch year: 2009

Publication platform: Open access (free) for readers, Free of charge for authors

Journal Metrics:

CiteScore: 2.6 (2024)

Downloads: 40,100 (2024)

Downloads: 111,149 (2019) from former publisher's site (is still downloadable for 2012-19)

Acceptance rate: 8.7% (2024)

Self-citation: <2% (2024)

Based on an update from Clarivate on 18.07.2024, the journal was de-listed in May 2024 because they did not identify our new URL (which we had communicated in January 2024 and notified as our new URL). Clarivate categorized this as a “production de-listing,” rather than based on “editorial selection criteria.” While we believe this failure to process our communication appears to be the root cause, Clarivate has not formally acknowledged this operational issue.

This incident raises significant questions about the consistency and transparency of Clarivate’s processes, particularly for smaller publishers who may be more vulnerable to apparent operational inconsistencies. It suggests that outcomes may be subject to interpretation rather than being consistently governed by clearly documented professional protocols that ensure equitable treatment for all.

This pattern of potential inconsistency is not limited to technical oversights. Just as one example, the integrity of any citation index depends on the consistent and impartial application of its own rules. While Clarivate publicly refers to a self-citation threshold of around 5%, we have observed examples of journals listed in JCR 2024 whose self-citation rates are publicly reported as exceeding 50%. In our assessment, this warrants rigorous academic scrutiny in light of the stated policy threshold. Such discrepancies in the application of policies may undermine the credibility of the index. It raises the question of whether a journal may be removed for a technical issue like a URL update, while others remain listed despite what we interpret as metrics that appear to contradict the spirit of the stated policy , if a 1% overage can artificially inflate a journal’s Impact Factor and alter its quartile ranking, then self-citation rates of 30%, 40% or 50+% may represent a serious risk of distortion of the index’s integrity, allowing for possible elevation of quartile ranking (for example from Q4 to Q3, or Q3 to Q2).

Believing these issues require rigorous academic scrutiny, our journal will soon support a 'new scholarly forum' designed to facilitate critical, evidence-based dialogue on indexing practices and their impact on the global research community (mainly focusing on Web of Science).

Authors are encouraged to submit their best works here in terms of having novelty, importance in the field, a good number of both dependent and independent variables with genuine originality, well-established statistics, and modified linguistic to be evaluated and proceeded in order.

For downloading the final PDF of published papers (2012-2019), you also could visit: http://link.springer.com/journal/40071.