Iranian Scientific Fisheries Journal publishes bi-monthly information obtained from the latest researches of researchers in various fields of fisheries science and aquatic biology in order to publish and expand research activities. With the approval of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, this quarterly journal was awarded a scientific-research degree from 2001/1/27. By obtaining permission from the Office of the Scientific Publication Review Commission of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, the scientific journal of fisheries is published online and bi-monthly in two languages (Persian with English abstract)
- According to the Islamic World Scientific Publications System (ISC) ranking, the Iranian Scientific Fisheries Journal is placed in the first quarter (Q1).
- Iranian Scientific Fisheries Journal was selected as "Top Magazine" by the jury of the book week headquarters of the Agricultural Research, Education and Promotion Organization in 2009.
- According to the referee points in 2016, Iranian Scientific Fisheries Journal has won the first place among the Persian language publications that are active in fisheries and aquaculture issues, with 80 points.
The Journal of Iranian Scientific Fisheries Journal is a bi-monthly journal with open access. This means that articles can be accessed and downloaded in full text immediately after publication on the journal's website. This publication has been published under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0).
Under an open access license, authors retain copyright for the content of their articles but, they allow others to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the content (as long as the original authors and source are correctly mentioned and the original source is correctly cited.
The Journal of Iranian Scientific Fisheries Journal observes scientific and publication ethics based on the International Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Although this publication has not yet become a definitive member of COPE, it uses their proper guidelines and considers itself committed to its principles.
It is a reminder that all respected authors must pay an amount of 2000000 Rials (200000 Tomans) for each article at the time of registering an article on the magazine's website. Also, if the article is accepted for printing, another amount of 3,250,000 Rials (325000 Tomans) will be received from the author to cover part of the printing costs.
The Iranian Scientific Fisheries Journal is published as an open access electronic journal, so there is no subscription fee for the audience. All published articles are available to the audience through the journal's website at https://isfj.areeo.ac.ir/?lang=en.
This journal uses Double-blind peer review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. Authors have the right to communicate to the editor if they do not wish their manuscript to be reviewed by a particular reviewer because of potential conflicts of interest. No article is rejected unless negative comments are received from at least two reviewers. This process, as well as any policies related to the journal’s peer review procedures, is clearly described on the journal’s Web site.