About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Akuatik Tropis: Journal of Tropical Aquatic Resource Management is an open-access academic journal, this journal is publishing high-quality articles in aquatic sciences and fisheries in general. The aim of the journal is to publish and disseminate the current or new findings of the research, and give a significant contribution to the development of fisheries and aquatic sciences in several topics, but not limited to:
- Fisheries (Aquaculture, Capture Fisheries, Social Economy Fisheries)
- Ecology (Freshwater, Marine, and Brackishwater)
- Biology (Fish, Mollusk, Crustacean, Plankton, Mammals, Coral reefs)
- Oceanography
Peer Review Process
Akuatik Tropis: Journal of Tropical Aquatic Resource Management is adopted the double-blind review process, where every submitted manuscript will be internally reviewed by the editor prior to sending to independent (external) reviewers. The authors are welcome to suggest at least three potential reviewers along with the name, affiliation, expert field and email address. However, the decision to determine the appropriate reviewers is right of the editor. The approved gallery proof of manuscript will early view online as early as possible upon received from author and final proofreading by editor in chief.
Publication Frequency
Akuatik Tropis is published periodically twice a year in May and November
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Publication Ethics
Ethics of Scientific Publication
Journal Akuatik Tropis (AKUATROP) is a journal managed by Department of Aquatic Management Resources, Tanjungpura University and published periodically two times a year. In accordance with the name of the journal, articles published on AKUATROP are scientific papers of unreleased research in several topics of fisheris and aquatic sciences.
This statement of code of ethics is a statement of ethical code of all parties involved in the process of publishing scientific journals including managers, editors, peer reviewers, website administrators, and authors. The ethics of scientific publication are based on Regulation of Head of LIPI No.5 Year 2014 about Code of Ethics of Scientific Publication. Code of Ethics of Scientific Publications essentially upholds three (3) ethical values in publications, namely:
1. Neutrality, which is free from conflict of interest among the editorial members;
2. Justice, which gives the right of authorship to the author;
3. Honesty, which is free from duplication, fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism (DF2P) in publication.
The Duties and Responsibilities of Editorial Board
1. Determine the name of the journal, scope of knowledge, period, and accreditation if necessary.
2. Determine the members of editorial board.
3. Define the relationship between publishers, editors, peer-reviewers, and others in a contract.
4. Appreciate the things that are confidential, both for contributing researchers, authors, editors, or peer-reviewers.
5. Implement norms and provisions on intellectual property rights, especially copyright.
6. Review the journal policy and submit it to the author, editor board, peer-riviewer, and reader.
7. Make guidelines of code of behave for editors and peer-reviewers.
8. Publish the journal regularly.
9. Ensure the availability of funding sources for sustainability of journal publication.
10. Build network of cooperation
11. Prepare licensing and other legality aspects.
The Duties and Responsibilities of the Editors
1. Meet the needs of readers and authors.
2. Have the efforts to improve the quality of publications on an ongoing basis.
3. Implement processes to ensure the quality of published papers.
4. Prioritize freedom of expression.
5. Maintain the integrity of the author's academic record.
6. Deliver corrections, clarifications, withdrawals and apologies as required.
7. Responsible for the style and format of the paper, while the contents and all statements in the paper is the responsibility of the author.
8. Actively seek the opinions of authors, readers, peer-riviewers, and members of editorial board to improve the quality of publications.
9. Encourage the assessment of the journal if there are findings.
10. Support initiatives to educate researchers about the ethics of publications.
11. Assess the effect of the publishing policy on the author and peer-riviewer’s attitudes and fix them to increase responsibility and minimize errors.
12. Have open minds to new opinions or views of others who may be contrary to personal opinions.
13. Do not defend an opinion of oneself, author or third party that may result in a non-objective decision.
14. Encourage the authors to revise the submitted paper until it deserved to be published.
The Duties and Responsibilities of Peer-Reviewer
1. Getting a job from the editor to review the paper and submit the review to the editor, as a material for determining the feasibility of a paper to be published.
2. The reviewer shall not review any paper involving him, whether directly or indirectly
3. Maintain the author's privacy by not disseminating the results of corrections, suggestions, and recommendations by providing criticism, suggestions, feedback, and recommendations
4. Encourage authors to make improvements to the paper
5. Reviewing the written works that have been improved in accordance with predetermined standards
6. The papers are reviewed in a timely manner according to the published style of scriptures (data collection methods, author's legality, conclusions, etc.).
The Duties and Responsibilities of Authors
1. Ensure that the author list meets the criteria as the author
2. Collectively responsible for the work and the contents of the article including methods, analysis, calculations, and details
3. Express the origin of the resources (including funding), either directly or indirectly
4. Explain the limitations of the study
5. Respond to comments made by the peer-reviewer in a professional and timely manner
6. Inform the editor if willing to retract the paper
7. Make a statement that the papers submitted for publication are original, have not been published anywhere in any language, and are not in the process of submitting to other publishers
Sources of Support
We would like thanks to the following organization for their support
Journal History
Akuatik Tropis: Journal of Tropical Aquatic Resource Management has been published by Department of Aquatic Resource Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Tanjungpura. Open journal system (OJS) has been activated since July 2022 at http://jurnal.untan.ac.id/index.php/AkuatikTropis. Therefore, the authors are required to register in advance and upload the manuscript by online. The process of the manuscript could be monitored through OJS. Authors, readers, editorial board, section editors, and reviewers could obtain the real-time status of the manuscript. The hard copy of the journal could be purchased by the system.
The Editorial Board has effort by systematic and continuous process in order to improve Akuatik Tropis as an international reputable journal. Achievements that have been successfully obtained were informed in the Announcements and Indexing.
