Journals in Agricultural and biological sciences

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Aquaculture Reports

ISSN: 2352-5134
5 Year impact factor: 3.8
Impact factor: 3.7

Aquaculture Reports, a companion title to the respected Aquaculture, is an open access journal publishing original research papers and reviews documenting outstanding science with a regional context and focus. It answers the need for high quality information on novel species, systems and regions in emerging areas of aquaculture research and development, such as integrated multi-trophic aquaculture, urban aquaculture, ornamental, unfed aquaculture, offshore aquaculture and others. Papers having industry research as priority and encompassing product development research or current industry practice are encouraged. We welcome submissions on novel species or production systems and on species or production systems established locally or with regional significance, falling within the following categories: Feeding management, nutrition and health: all aspects of aquatic animal feed, nutrition, health and diseases relevant to aquaculture, including evaluation of regional feeds and feedstuffs as well as novel feed management practices and techniques. Production, sustainability and economics: production methods and systems for aquatic produce. Dissemination of interdisciplinary knowledge regarding the sustainable management of aquatic production systems and resulting impacts on people and environment, which comprises ecosystem services provided by aquaculture. Articles which focus on disruptive innovations and include economics are encouraged. Economics may have a neoclassical, environmental or ecological approach. Manuscripts focus on circular or donut economies are welcome. Genetics, developmental biology, immunology, physiology and life cycle: all aspects of farmed aquatic animals and plants relevant to solving problems related to their culture.

Aquaculture and Fisheries

ISSN: 2468-550X

Aquaculture and Fisheries welcomes original research articles, technical notes, review papers and short communications in the multidisciplinary fields of aquaculture and fisheries encompassing: Aquaculture; Aquaculture Engineering; Management in Aquaculture; Aquaculture Nutrition; Disease & Immunology; Fish Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology; Fish Physiology & Endocrinology; Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology of Aquatic Organisms; Aquatic Biology, Environment, and Ecology; Aquatic Ecological Conservation and Restoration Techniques; Fishery Resource Habitats and Management; Application of GIS in Fisheries; Fishing Gear, Vessels, and Engineering; Fisheries Machinery and Instruments; Fisheries Economics and Management; Preservation & Processing Technologies of Aquatic Products. Both theoretical and empirical studies, and research in application of science and technology are welcomed, but interdisciplinary studies of broad scopes are particularly encouraged.

Aquatic Botany

ISSN: 0304-3770
5 Year impact factor: 2
Impact factor: 1.8

An International Scientific Journal dealing with Applied and Fundamental Research on Macroscopic Submerged, Floating and Emergent Plants in Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems Aquatic Botany offers a platform for papers relevant to a broad international readership on fundamental and applied aspects of marine and freshwater macroscopic plants in a context of ecology or environmental biology. This includes molecular, biochemical and physiological aspects of macroscopic aquatic plants as well as the classification, structure, function, dynamics and ecological interactions in plant-dominated aquatic communities and ecosystems. It is an outlet for papers dealing with research on the consequences of disturbance and stressors (e.g. environmental fluctuations and climate change, pollution, grazing and pathogens), use and management of aquatic plants (plant production and decomposition, commercial harvest, plant control) and the conservation of aquatic plant communities (breeding, transplantation and restoration). Specialized publications on certain rare taxa or papers on aquatic macroscopic plants from under-represented regions in the world can also find their place, subject to editor evaluation. Studies on fungi or microalgae will remain outside the scope of Aquatic Botany.Interesting for further reading:Editorial: What is a plant? and what is aquatic botany?Elisabeth M. Gross, Thomas Wernberg, Jorge Terrados http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3770(16)30052-3Editorial: Aquatic botany since 1975: Have our views changed?Jan E. Vermaat, Elisabeth M. Gross http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2016.07.001Benefits to authors We also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our Support Center

Aquatic Data

ISSN: 2468-1318

Aquatic Data is an open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed articles describing research data from fundamental and applied research, as well as citizens' involvement in the field of aquatic sciences. We publish three novel publication types: Data in Context Articles are the perfect companion to books, journal articles, presentations, or posters that contain research data. They are short and include a preformatted table that characterises your data. Please use our Data in Context Article template; Data in Focus Articles bring together and harmonise collections of research data from already published and unpublished sources. They are more detailed and include statistical distributions of data. Please use our Data in Focus Article template; Data Perspective Articles highlight the latest initiatives, tools and opportunities that may improve data sharing, discovery and reuse in aquatic sciences. They are short review type articles. Please use our Data Perspective Article template. Aquatic Data Articles follow Creative Commons user licenses CC-BY 4.0 permitting third party (re)use (see https://www.elsevier.com/openaccesslicenses). Aquatic Data has an open access fee, also known as article publishing charge (APC), which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g. by their research funder or institution. The discounted fee per Open Access Article for 2016 and 2017 is 500 US Dollars per Article. Research data refers to the results of observations or experimentation that are necessary to validate research findings, including raw and processed data, video, code, software, algorithms, protocols, and methods. Aquatic Data is the place to publish your research data describing: Pelagic, deep sea, benthic, coastal and shore habitats; Oceanic, shelf, estuarine, brackish, freshwater river and lake systems; Interactions with ice, land and atmosphere systems, and global climate. Before submitting your article, you must deposit your data in a free-to-use, open access repository. Elsevier Database Linking services are available for supported data repositories, offering easy access to data from your published article online. Aquatic Data recommends the following data archives: Mendeley offers basic curation services for any type of research data. You can also deposit your data at the same time as your article using Elsevier's integrated Mendeley Data upload system. Your data can be deposited privately at Mendeley. Private access will be given to the reviewers of the article and your data will become publicly available when the article is published. PANGAEA offers advanced curation services for environmental data. INSDC offers advanced curation services for nucleotide sequence data. Contextual data improves sharing, discovery and reuse of your research data. Aquatic Data enriches them with FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) contextual data. The Article templates include an Excel file that we ask you to fill as best as you can and to submit along with the manuscript. The editorial team will assist you in improving your contextual data and will generate corresponding tables online. The costs of this service are currently included in the open Access fee. Contextual Data comprises the following 7 components: Environments provide a list of geographic places, political and economic zones, ecosystems, habitats, and any environmental features that relate to your data. It includes links to quality-controlled terms in gazetteers and ontologies; Events provide spatial and/or temporal references for any field and/or experimental work. The granularity of an event can range from an entire study/experiment to each deployment/use of an instrument over the course of a study. Events with different granularity can be organised in a hierarchical way as needed; Methods provide a list of sampling and/or experimental protocols, instrumentation, formulae, equations, codes, or models used in your work. It includes links to methods published in specialised journals such as MethodsX and SoftwareX or registered in online resources such as GitHub and Protocols.io; Samples provide a list of physical samples used in your work, including those used-up during analyses and those preserved in collections. It includes links to sample descriptors registered in online resources; Entities provide a list of chemical and biological entities described in your work (e.g. proteins, organisms), including "sub" entities (e.g. molecular bonds, body parts) and "super" entities (e.g. "algae", "colony"). It includes links to quality-controlled terms in online resources such as chemical registers and taxonomic registers; Qualities provide a list of qualitative parameters (e.g. colour, shape, treatment) and their values used in your work, including traits (e.g. blue, red, round, elongated), and natural or artificial conditions used during experiments (e.g. elevated CO2 levels). It provides links to quality-controlled terms in morphological traits data bases and ontologies; Quantities provide a list of quantitative parameters/variables used in your work, detailing their quantity kind, name, abbreviation, dimension, units, quartiles, accuracy and precision. It includes links to quality-controlled terms in online ontologies. Elsevier's Content Innovation apps allows you to enrich the content of your online article. Aquatic Data encourages you to use the following apps: AudioSlides are brief, webinar-style presentations that are shown next to the online article on ScienceDirect. This gives authors the opportunity to summarize their research in their own words and to help readers understand what the paper is about; Interactive Map Viewer (Google) provides annotated geospatial information on an interactive (Google) map. This is enabled by listing events in the Data in Context Section of the manuscript. You can also include KML or KMZ files with your article submission; Interactive Graphic Viewer (.csv) provides easy visualisation and access to data used in online Figures. Readers can switch between plots and table view, download data or hover over data points to see the value. This is enabled when your data is archived in .csv or tab-delimited format; Interactive Graphic Viewer (MATLAB) provides easy visualisation and access to figures created in MATLAB. This is enabled by submitting figures in .fig format with your article. Interactive 2D Viewer The award winning Virtual Microscope lets your reader explore high resolution microscopic images that are featured in your article. This is enabled by submitting 2D images with your article; Interactive 3D Viewer lets your reader explore high resolution 3D images that are featured in your article. This is enabled by submitting 3D images with your article.

Aquatic Procedia

ISSN: 2214-241X

Aquatic Procedia is not accepting new publication proposals. For more information on above and questions related to Procedia, contact us: Neelima Dondapati [email protected]

Aquatic Toxicology

ISSN: 0166-445X
5 Year impact factor: 5.2
Impact factor: 4.5

Aquatic Toxicology publishes significant contributions that increase the understanding of the impact of harmful substances (including natural and synthetic chemicals) on aquatic organisms and ecosystems. Aquatic Toxicology considers both laboratory and field studies with a focus on marine/ freshwater environments. The journal strives to attract high quality original scientific papers, critical reviews and expert opinion papers in the following areas: • Effects of harmful substances on molecular, cellular, sub-organismal, organismal, population, community, and ecosystem level; • Toxic mechanisms; • Genetic disturbances, transgenerational effects, behavioral and adaptive responses; • Impacts of harmful substances on structure, function of and services provided by aquatic ecosystems; • Mixture toxicity assessment; • Statistical approaches to predict exposure to and hazards of contaminants The journal also considers manuscripts in other areas, such as the development of innovative concepts, approaches, and methodologies, which promote the wider application of toxicological datasets to the protection of aquatic environments and inform ecological risk assessments and decision making by relevant authorities. Aquatic Toxicology does not publish articles that focus on the health of aquaculture organisms associated with aquaculture practices, unless these studies enhance our understanding of the potential effects of chemical stressors associated with aquaculture (e.g. pesticides use, water quality degradation) on aquatic organisms and/or ecosystems. Aquatic Toxicology does not consider articles that focus on monitoring the presence of chemicals in the environment unless these studies further investigate the impacts of the chemicals on aquatic organisms and/or ecological systems. Furthermore, studies that characterize the potential risks of contaminated fish or other aquatic food products on humans or livestock are outside of the scope of the journal.

Arthropod Structure & Development

ISSN: 1467-8039
5 Year impact factor: 2
Impact factor: 2

The journal Arthropod Structure & Development publishes original research and review articles dealing with all levels of fossil and extant arthropod structure, morphology, and development in a comparative, functional, paleontological, phylogenetic, and evolutionary framework. Structures range from gene expression and ultrastructure to morphological body organization, including at the levels of cells, tissues, and organs. Developmental aspects comprise pattern formation, cell lineage, organogenesis, regeneration, embryology, and postembryonic development. Arthropod Structure & Development invites suggestions for special issues. Specifically, the following research areas are covered: • Exoskeleton, integument, musculature, and glands. • Sensory structures, central nervous systems, and neuroendocrine systems. • Circulatory, respiratory, visceral, and excretory organs. • Reproductive systems, organogenesis, and repair. • Embryology, pattern formation, and development. • Comparative morphology from the phylogenetic perspective. • Paleontology. A thorough and efficient peer-review system with the assistance of section editors and advisory board members of world-wide reputation will ensure that published papers conform to high scientific standards. Review articles and article series on relevant topics will be invited at regular intervals and will be subject to peer-review. Particular emphasis will be given to high quality line and half-tone illustrations. Exceptional colour plates will be printed free of charge. Supplementary 3-D and videos and other electronic addenda can be submitted with the manuscript and published on the journal's website after acceptance.

Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture

ISSN: 2589-7217

Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are widely used to solve a variety of problems and to optimize the production and operation processes in the fields of agriculture, food and bio-system engineering. Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture is an Open Access journal, publishing original research, reviews and perspectives on the theory and practice of artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture, food and bio-system engineering and related areas. Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture serves as an interdisciplinary forum to share ideas and solutions related to artificial intelligence and applications in agriculture. The journal welcomes both fundamental science and applied research describing the practical applications of AI methods in the fields of agriculture, food - and bio-system engineering and related areas. Topics of interest to the journal include, but are not limited to: AI-based decision support systems AI-based precision agriculture Smart sensors and Internet of Things Agricultural robotics and automation equipment Agricultural knowledge-based systems Computational intelligence in agriculture, food and bio-systems AI in agricultural optimization management Intelligent interfaces and human-machine interaction Machine vision and image/signal processing Machine learning and pattern recognition Neural networks, fuzzy systems, neuro-fuzzy systems Systems modeling and analysis Intelligent systems for animal feeding Expert systems in agriculture Crop Phenotyping and analysis Remote sensing in agriculture AI technology in aquiculture AI in food engineering and cold chain logistics Big Data and Cloud Computing Automatic navigation and self-driving technology Precision agricultural aviation Distributed ledger technology (Blockchain) The journal welcomes original research articles, review articles, perspective papers and short communications. The journal's editorial leadership welcome suggestions and proposals for special issues.

Avian Research

ISSN: 2053-7166
Impact factor: 1.8

At present, the article publishing charge (APC) of the journal is covered by the sponsors, so authors do not need to pay an APC for articles accepted for publication in Avian Research. The contents of Volumes 5-12 of Avian Research published with BMC can be found here. (https://avianres.biomedcentral.com/articles) The journal was previously published under the title Chinese Birds (Volumes 1-4), and the contents can be found here. (http://www.chinesebirds.net) Avian Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles covering all aspects of ornithology, including, but not limited to: Conservation biology Behavioral ecology Evolutionary ecology Phylogenetics, systematics and genomics Biogeography Population and community ecology Migration and movement ecology Breeding and reproductive biology Physiological ecology New technology and methodology Theoretical, applied and interdisciplinary papers are equally welcome. The journal prefers concise, well-written papers focusing on precisely framed questions or hypotheses. Purely observational or descriptive papers have a low chance of acceptance. Avian Research mainly publishes research articles and reviews. Although the journal publishes other types like correspondences and short notes at times, direct submission of such types of manuscript is not advised. The rigorous peer-review helps raise the academic level of the journal and has led the journal being indexed in such databases as SCIE (Science Citation Index Expanded), Scopus, DOAJ, Zoological Record, and CSCD (Chinese Science Citation Database). As an open access journal, Avian Research benefits authors from publishing high quality contents on ScienceDirect that will be internationally accessible at no cost, quality peer-review, easy online submission and fast publication upon acceptance.

BioSystems

ISSN: 0303-2647
5 Year impact factor: 1.8
Impact factor: 1.6

BioSystems encourages theoretical, computational and experimental articles that link biology, evolutionary concepts, and the information processing sciences. The journal is dedicated to developing the consequences of the discoveries of biological information and of the genetic code - with the view of obtaining a better understanding of the origins and evolution of biological organization, biological adaptability, and the origin of mind and language. The scope of the journal encompasses the fundamental nature of biological information processing. This includes quantum phenomena in information transfer, natural computing, biological coding systems, biological complexity, theoretical biology, artificial life, computational modeling of complex biological systems, evolutionary models of computation, application of biological principles to the design of novel computing systems, and the use of biomolecular materials to synthesize artificial systems that capture essential principles of natural biological information processing. The journal does not publish purely medical, computational, or ecological research, unless it is clearly linked to the basic and conceptual aspects of biological organization. The editors encourage articles that deal, in particular, with the following topics: Biological computation Molecular recognition Physical foundations of biology Quantum phenomena in biological systems Cellular control Neuromolecular computing Biological coding systems Molecular computing processes Self-organizing and self-replicating systems Origins and evolution of the genetic mechanism Stochastic evolutionary algorithms Origins and evolution of mind and language Simulation of genetic and ecological systems Applications (neural nets, machine learning, robotics) In addition, the editors encourage the following types of papers for submission: Papers that extract novel biological insights from multidimensional data using AI-driven language models Biological hypothesis papers producing new insights based on a body of pre-existing empirical research