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, which means it is free of charge for authors. 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
• Climate Change

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. M.R. Ghomi, SRH University Heidelberg, Germany

Associate editors:

• Dr. Soottawat Benjakul, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
• 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 of charge for authors

Journal Metrics:

Downloads (in current publisher's site): 19,800 (2021); [111,149 in 2019, from former publisher's site]

Acceptance rate: 22.4% (2021); [5 years average= 17.8%]

Self-citation rate: <2% (2020)

CiteScore: 2.1 (2020)

Authors are encouraged to submit their strongest 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.