Aim and Scope

Providing readers with latest achievements in all fields of fisheries research;

Providing scientists with the opportunity to publish the results of their research in conditions of transparency and openness when elucidating a scientific problem;

Contribution to the formation of open scientific polemics in order to improve the quality of scientific research and the efficiency of expert evaluation of scientific works, as well as to determine scientific potential for introducing the latest achievements in fisheries science;

Attracting attention to the most demanded, promising, and interesting areas of fisheries science;

Increase in the publication activity of authors in the RF, the rating of RF scientific organizations, and the level of Russian publications in the world scientific community due to their data cited;

Strengthening of the reputation and credibility of the journal and increase in the number of regular subscribers; ensuring cooperation and attraction of leading Russian and foreign scientists to publications, providing exchange of views between researchers of different scientific schools from different regions and countries;

Providing opportunities for dialogue and sharing knowledge between leading scientists and practical experts.

The editorial policy of the "Izvestiya TINRO" journal is based on the traditional ethical principles of the scientific periodicals developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for editors, reviewers, and authors.

The journal publishes reviews, original studies, and brief reports.

Section Policies

BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

ENVIRONMENTS OF FISHERIES RESOURCES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

AQUACULTURE

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

PROMRYBOLOVSTVO

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

TECHNOLOGY FOR PROCESSING OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS,

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

ECONOMIC STUDIES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

METHODS OF INVESTIGATIONS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

SCROLLS OF MEMORY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ В АРКТИКЕ

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

ПЕРСОНАЛИИ

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

4 issues per year

Open Access Policy

"Izvestiya TINRO"  is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediatly upon publication.

Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition - it means that articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

For more information please read BOAI statement.

Archiving

• Russian State Library (RSL)
• National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)

Peer-Review

1. This Procedure of Peer-Reviewing Manuscripts determines the procedure of consideration of manuscripts submitted by authors for publication in the "Izvestiya TINRO" journal.

2. Manuscripts that do not comply with the Rules for Formatting Manuscript by Authors (hereinafter referred to as the "Rules for Authors") are not registered for consideration.

3. Manuscript of scientific article submitted to the editors is checked by the editorial staff for correctness of formatting and accordance to the scientific profile of the journal. If all requirements are met, the manuscript is registered in the database, and the note of acceptance of the manuscript is sent to the author.

4. Each manuscript submitted to the editorial board for publication undergoes the process of single-blind peer review (where authors of manuscripts do not know reviewers) by at least two reviewers.

4.1. Reviewing of the manuscript is carried out by the editor-in-chief or a member of the editorial board of the journal, who has the scientific expertise closest to the subject of the article, is an acknowledged expert in the subject matter of peer-reviewed materials, and has published works on the subject of the article under review for the last 3 years.

4.2. The editor-in-chief has the right to involve other reviewers (doctors or candidates of sciences, including practical experts) who are not the members of the editorial council and (or) the editorial board. The editor-in-chief agrees with the reviewer the deadline for submission of the review to the editorial office of the journal. The review period is 2-4 weeks, but can be extended at reviewer’s request.

4.3. The author or a co-author of the manuscript reviewed, as well as the author's scientific supervisor and an employee of the institution at which the author works, cannot be a reviewer.

4.4. The reviewer, when receiving a manuscript for review, is notified that the manuscript is the intellectual property of the authors and the information contained is not subject to disclosure. 

Reviewers are not allowed:

— using the manuscript for their own needs and needs of a third party;

— disclosing the information contained in the manuscript before publication;

— forwarding the manuscript for reviewing to another person without approval from the editor-in-chief;

— using the materials contained in the manuscript in their own interests before it is published.

4.5. The communication between the author and the reviewer is provided only through the editorial office of the journal.

4.6. The editorial board does not provide authors of manuscript with information about reviewer.

5. The review should objectively evaluate the manuscript and contain a comprehensive analysis of its scientific and methodological advantages and shortcomings.

5.1. The summarizing part of the review should contain well-grounded conclusions about the manuscript in general and a clear recommendation on its fitness for publication in the journal, rejection of publication, or the necessity of revision. 

5.2. Based on the results of the review, the manuscript can be: 

(1) approved for publication.

The final decision on accepting the manuscript for publication in the journal is taken at a workshop of the editorial board with the editor-in-chief of the journal;

(2) rejected from publication.

In case of the negative evaluation of the manuscript, the reviewer substantiates the conclusions and points out the significant inconsistencies that influenced the decision taken. The editorial board sends the author either a motivated refusal or a copy of the review;

(3) sent for revising and eliminating of shortcomings according to reviewer’s comments.

5.3. In case of a non-compliance of the manuscript with one or more criteria, the reviewer points out in the review the necessity to revise the manuscript and provides recommendations to the author how to remove shortcomings. The author of the manuscript must make all necessary corrections to the final version of the manuscript no later than within 14 calendar days after receiving the notification by e-mail and send the corrected text and a cover letter for the reviewer again to the editorial office. The manuscript revised by the author is re-directed for reviewing either to the same reviewer who had made the critical comments or to another reviewer at the discretion of the editor-in-chief.

Manuscripts, authors of which have not eliminated shortcomings according to the constructive comments of the reviewer and did not provide well-grounded arguments, are not accepted for publication.

5.4. If the author disagrees with the comments of the reviewer, he/she can apply for the second review or revoke the manuscript by sending a written notification to the editorial office; then the author receives confirmation of the removal of the manuscript from consideration. 

5.5. The editorial office informs the author, upon request, about the progress in reviewing the manuscript and the decision taken. Information is provided only to the author.

5.6 If publication of the manuscript entailed violation of someone's copyrights or commonly accepted norms of scientific ethics, the editors of the journal has the right to publish refutation, and also to inform the interested persons about the fact of violation of rights.

5.7. Reviews are stored at the editorial office of the journal for 5 years and submitted to the RF Ministry of Education and Science upon a request of expert councils.

Indexation

Articles in "Izvestiya TINRO" are indexed by several systems:

• Russian Scientific Citation Index (RSCI) – a database, accumulating information on papers by Russian scientists, published in native and foreign titles. The RSCI project is under development since 2005 by “Electronic Scientific Library” foundation (elibrary.ru).
• Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. The Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals.
• Cyberleninka
• Dimensions
• EBSCO
• Library of Congress
• SOCIONET
• WorldCat

Publishing Ethics

The Editorial Board and the editors of the “Izvestiya TINRO” journal support the policy aimed at observing the principles of publishing ethics, recognize that monitoring of observance of the principles of publishing (editorial) ethics is one of the main components of reviewing and publishing, and declare that there is no abuse of official authority.

The Editorial Board and the editors of the journal conduct their activities within the framework of the current laws of the Russian Federation, are guided in their work by the "Code of Ethics of Scientific Publications" developed and approved by the Committee on Scientific Publication Ethics, which was established on the basis of the All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Russian Academy of Sciences (VINITI RAS), as well as by the ethical norms for work of editors and publishers, listed in the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers; Responsible research publication: international standards for editors; Responsible research publication: international standards for authors), developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Observing the ethical norms and rules is obligatory for all participants of the process of publication of scientific papers: authors, reviewers, editorial board members, editors and employees of publishing house.

Responsibilities of the editor-in-chief

The editor-in-chief exercises the overall management of the periodical. He/she is responsible for taking decisions on which the papers submitted to the editorial office of the journal should be published. The decision to publish is made based on the scientific reviews and opinion of members of the editorial board. The evaluation of papers should be based solely on their content and quality of scientific results, regardless of gender, race, ethnic origin, religion, citizenship, or political views of the author. Information on the submitted manuscript can be provided only to the author, reviewers, potential reviewers, members of the editorial board, and the publisher.

Unpublished data, contained in the submitted paper, cannot be used by the editor-in-chief without the written consent of the author.

Confidential information obtained in the process of reviewing is not subject to disclosure or use in personal interests.

The editor-in-chief is obliged to reject considering the submitted article in case of a conflict of interest.

When an ethical complaint on the submitted manuscript or published article is received, the editor-in-chief must take reasonable countermeasures. These measures usually include: notification of the author, discussion of the complaint and, if necessary, publication of corrections. Each case of violation of the norms of scientific ethics should be investigated, even if it was revealed many years after the publication.

The editor-in-chief should not force authors to cite the journal. This cannot be a prerequisite for accepting the manuscript of the paper for publication. Any recommendations for citing works should be based on their scientific importance and pursue the goal of improving the material submitted.

The editor-in-chief should require all authors of the journal to provide information on relevant competing interests and publish corrections if a conflict of interest was disclosed after publication. If necessary, another relevant measure may be taken, such as publication of a refutation.

Responsibilities of reviewers

Reviewing helps the editor-in-chief in taking the decision to publish a paper and, through the communication of editors with the author, also can help the author improve his/her paper.

The reviewer, participating in evaluation of materials submitted for publication in the "Izvestia TINRO" journal, is obliged to:

make objective and unprejudiced decisions.

observe confidentiality. Discussing the paper with other persons is not allowed unless those persons are authorized by the editor-in-chief to work with the author's manuscript.

not to use the information obtained during the review for personal purposes.

inform the editor-in-chief and refuse participating in the process of expert evaluation of the manuscript if, in reviewer’s opinion, his/her qualification is insufficient to review the material submitted or in the case a non-compliance of deadlines in consideration of the manuscript is possible.

make decisions based on reliable facts and provide confirmation for the decision.

draw attention of the editor-in-chief to the substantial or partial similarity of the manuscript being evaluated with any other work, as well as to the facts of the lack of reference to the ideas, conclusions, or arguments previously published in other works of this or other authors.

assist the author in improving the quality of the article.

not to use the materials of the unpublished manuscript in own research.

Responsibilities of authors

Originality and plagiarism

The authors of the article must garantee that they have written a completely original work, and if the authors have used the paper and/or words of other authors, this should be appropriately confirmed with a reference or indicated in the text.

In case of presence of a text or graphic information from previously published studies of the author or from a work of another researcher, it is necessary to refer to the corresponding publications or to provide a written permission for the use of these materials. The existence of a loan without reference will be considered by the editorial board as plagiarism.

In general, the author should not publish a manuscript, which is in most part the same study, in more than one scientific journal. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal at a time is regarded as non-ethical behavior and is unacceptable.

It is necessary to properly recognize works of other researchers. Authors should refer to publications that have influenced the content of the paper described.

In case the fact of plagiarism or self-plagiarism (publication of the same paper of the author(s) in different journals) is disclosed, the editor, with the consent of the publisher, withdraws the publication from the press. The withdrawal (retraction) of the publication is performed through publishing information about it in the journal and on the journal's website with a detailed explanation of the reason for the withdrawal, based on the decision of the meeting of the journal’s Publication Ethics Commission.

Authorship of work

Authorship should be limited to those persons who made a significant contribution to the concept, planning, implementation or interpretation of the study described.

All persons who have made a significant contribution must be listed as co-authors. If a person took part in any significant part of the project, then he/she should be mentioned in acknowledgments or included in the list of co-authors.

Disclosure of information and conflict of interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript a financial or any other significant conflict of interest that could be interpreted as affecting the results of evaluation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be indicated.

Mistakes in published papers

If the author finds a significant mistake or inaccuracy in his/her published paper, his/her responsibility is to notify the editor-in-chief about this immediately and cooperate with the editor-in-chief in order to publish a refutation or correction of the article. If the editor-in-chief learns from a third party that the published paper contains a significant mistake, the author’s responsibility is to promptly refute or correct the article, or to provide the editor-in-chief with the proof of the correctness of the published work.

Founder

• TINRO

Author fees

Publication in "Izvestiya TINRO"  is free of charge for all the authors.

The journal doesn't have any Arcticle processing charges.

The journal doesn't have any Article submission charges.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Plagiarism detection

"Izvestiya TINRO"  use native russian-language plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

Preprint and postprint Policy

Prior to acceptance and publication in "Izvestiya TINRO", authors may make their submissions available as preprints on personal or public websites.

As part of submission process, authors are required to confirm that the submission has not been previously published, nor has been submitted. After a manuscript has been published in "Izvestiya TINRO"  we suggest that the link to the article on journal's website is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.

Glossary (by SHERPA)