About the Journal
Tropical Aquaculture is an international journal with continuous biannual publication frequency. It publishes original and unpublished scientific articles, scientific notes, and review articles by researchers from any educational institution, national or international research center, in electronic open-access format.
The journal aims to create a space for discussion and dissemination of results and advances in original and unpublished scientific research related to Aquaculture. It includes all scientific areas linked to the advancement of aquaculture in marine, brackish and fresh waters environments located in tropical and subtropical regions.
Indexes and Databases
Tropical Aquaculture is indexed in the following scientific information databases:
Plagiarism Detection
The journal only publishes original documents. All submitted articles are analyzed using the software iThenticate, as part of the arbitration process, in order to detect similarities that could be considered plagiarism.
Tropical Aquaculture reserves the right to reject submissions in which any of the following practices are detected:
- Inclusion of previously published fragments, regardless of their length, whether from the authors themselves (self-citation) or from other uninvolved parties, without proper attribution.
- Duplicate publication or simultaneous submission to another journal.
Retraction Policy
Retraction is a scientific publishing procedure that is not intended to punish authors, but rather to protect the integrity of the literature and correct the scientific record, in this case, related to aquaculture research. In this way, the reproduction of information that has become invalid for any reason is prevented.
Tropical Aquaculture journal adheres to the retraction guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Among others, the following are considered grounds for retraction:
-Sampling failures or calculation errors that invalidate conclusions regarding the growth or health of aquatic species.
-Submission of previously published findings without proper reference or permission, which may constitute plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
-Unethical and/or undeclared use of generative AI or other similar tools.
-Alteration, falsification, or fabrication of data or experimental results.
-Inclusion of authors without actual contribution or undeclared conflicts of interest.
-Omission of animal welfare protocols or environmental permits in tropical systems.
In accordance with COPE guidelines, retraction notices issued by this journal will be published promptly and will be clearly linked to the retracted article, indicating who is retracting the paper and the specific reasons for doing so.
Tropical Aquaculture guarantees full transparency toward the scientific community it serves.
Interoperability protocols
Tropical Aquaculture is hosted on an OJS (Open Journal Systems) platform, which uses the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol to facilitate the transfer of digital resources.
Additionally, OJS implements the Dublin Core protocol for managing metadata associated to published articles.
Statistics
Each article published in the journal includes a metrics viewer developed by the Public Knowledge Project for OJS. In addition, general publication metrics can be consulted through the SciLit database.
Content preservation policies
Tropical Aquaculture promotes self-archiving by authors in the repositories of the institutions to which they belong, as well as on personal websites or thematic platforms. This must be done using the post-print version of the article, which includes revised metadata, journal graphic elements, and the assigned DOI.
Additionally, the journal uses the PKP Preservation Network service to ensure the persistence of content in case of a trigger event that results in the end of the publication. Likewise, published articles are stored in the Repositorio Institucional UJAT.
Contact
Readers may contact the journal’s staff through the email addresses and telephone numbers provided below.
Information about Tropical Aquaculture publications can also be found on the Facebook profile Ciencia y Tecnología UJAT, as with the rest of the scientific journals of UJAT.
Primary contact
Wilfrido M. Contreras Sánchez
Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco
Phone: 9933581500 Ext. 5041
tropicalaquaculture@ujat.mx
Support Contact
Cristóbal de la Cruz Arévalo
Phone: 9933581500 Ext. 5041
administradorojs@ujat.mx
Access and reuse policies
The journal Tropical Aquaculture used the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license in its first issues, up to Vol. 2 No. 2. From Vol. 3 No. 1 onwards, the published articles are subject to the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es_ES); they may be reproduced for any non-commercial use with the respective acknowledgement to the author. Derivative works are not permitted.
