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 due to not identifying our new URL formerly changed (despite our communication in Jan 2024 and notified our new URL), as 'production de-listing', not because of 'editorial selection criteria'. Despite this being a clear and direct oversight on their part, Clarivate has never taken responsibility, declining to acknowledge that their team's failure to process our official communication was the sole cause of this issue. This incident raises profound concerns about the consistency and fairness of Clarivate's processes, particularly for smaller publishers who may be more vulnerable to such operational inconsistency. It suggests that outcomes are subject to individual discretion rather than being governed by standardized, professional protocols that ensure equitable treatment for all.

This pattern of inconsistent treatment 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 sets a self‑citation threshold of 5%, we have identified numerous journals (JCR 2024) within their current index that exhibit self‑citation rates exceeding 50%, representing a clear and well‑documented violation of their stated policy. This selective enforcement of policies could undermine the credibility of the entire index. It is a significant contradiction that a journal can be delisted for a minor technicality, such as a URL update oversight, while other journals with metrics that are artificially inflated by extreme self‑citation remain listed. 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+ % represent a catastrophic failure of the index's integrity, allowing for a distortion of rankings, such as elevating a journal 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.

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.