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 It publishes original and unpublished scientific articles, scientific notes, and review articles by researchers from any educational institution, national or international research center, in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The journal aims to create a space for discussion and dissemination of results and advances in original and unpublished scientific research related to Aquaculture.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:

  •        FAO Agris, of the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations
  •        SCILIT, of the publisher MDPI

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.

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.