About the Journal

About the Journal

Aims and Scopes

AQUATIC ANIMAL REPORTS (AQAR), an International Scientific Journal, publishes peer-reviewed original research articles, short communications, technical notes, letters to the Editor with innovative opinion and visions for the future, and critical review articles enlightening scientific understanding of the aquatic system with wide aspects in aquaculture, nutrition, animal behavior, diseases, animal physiology, fish and shellfish biology, aquatic living resources, aquaculture and environment, fisheries and human interactions from all over the World. The Journal considers scientific investigations for publication not limited to the special topics listed below, but comprises a wide range of fields related to interdisciplinary nature of aquatic science over a broad spectrum with general interests to marine and freshwater scientists (below list is given in alphabetical order):

Aquaculture

Aquaculture nutrition and feed technology

Aquatic animal behavior

Aquatic biochemistry

Aquatic animal diseases

Aquatic animal physiology

Aquaculture and environment

Aquaculture and risk assessment

Aquatic ecotoxicology

Aquatic living resources

Aquatic animal processing and technology

Fish and shellfish biology

Seafood Quality and Safety

The average time from submission to first decision for articles submitted to this journal is aimed to reach within 60 working days. AQUATIC ANIMAL REPORTS (AQAR) is a double peer-reviewed Open Access Journal and publishes articles in English language with two volumes a year (February and August), with an outstanding international Editorial Board, dedicated to provide a multidisciplinary platform disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge with high impacts to researchers, academics, policy makers and the public all over the World.

Review Process

AQAR operates according to the double-blind peer review model and so the respective identities of author and reviewer remain hidden. Authors are responsible for the content, language and originality of the article they submit. Authors must ensure that they fully compose their original work, and that if the authors have used the work and/or other authors' words, it is appropriately cited or cited by attribution.

The followings are the details of the reviewing process in AQAR:

All submitted articles are subject to at least 2 peer-reviews before publication. The journal uses a double-blind peer review system.

The double-blind peer review system is an review system in which the identity of the author(s) of an article is hidden from selected reviewers.
Any details that might enable a reviewer to identify the author(s) of an article are removed from the article before it is submitted to the reviewer. Similarly, the identities of the reviewers are also hidden from the authors when sending their comments to the author(s).

The journal considers the double-blind peer review system to be the most effective review system because it limits possible bias from selected reviewers or authors. It enables authors to improve their articles and assists editors in making decisions about articles.

Archiving Policy

AQAR has been published online since its first issue (https://scopesscience.com/index.php/aqar). All publication processes are carried out through open journal systems (OJS). The current issue of the journal is published online through open journal systems (OJS). Journal’s all issues, have been added to the open journal systems (OJS) archive so that all issues of the journal can be accessed from one place. All of the studies published in the journal, with all their supplements, are open to free and continuous access in the journal archive.

The Publisher allows author(s) the use of the final published version of an article (publisher pdf) for self-archiving (author’s personal website) and/or archiving in an institutional repository after publication.