Aquatic Invasions
e-ISSN: 1818-5487
Frequency: Quarterly
URLs:
https://www.reabic.net/journals/ai/
https://aquaticinvasions.arphahub.com (beginning April 2023)
DOI: 10.3391/ai
Publisher: Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre - REABIC, PL 6, 00981 Helsinki, FINLAND

Aims and Scope

Aquatic Invasions is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal focusing on academic research of biological invasions in both inland and coastal water ecosystems from around the world.
It was established in 2006 as initiative of the International Society of Limnology (SIL) Working Group on Aquatic Invasive Species (WGAIS) with start-up funding from the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Integrated Project ALARM.

Aquatic Invasions is an official journal of International Association for Open Knowledge on Invasive Alien Species (INVASIVESNET).

Aquatic Invasions provides a forum for professionals involved in research of aquatic non-native species, including a focus on the following:

• Patterns of non-native species distribution and dispersal, including range extensions with global change
• Trends in new introductions and establishment of non-native species
• Population dynamics of non-native species
• Ecological and evolutionary impacts of non-native species
• Behaviour of invasive and associated native species in invaded areas
• Prediction of new invasions
• Advances in non-native species identification and taxonomy

Open Access Policy

Aquatic Invasions is an Open Access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of Open Access.
The Open Access (OA) policy of Aquatic Invasions means that authors retain the copyright of their articles, which can be copied, downloaded and freely distributed within society (please see Copyright statement below). The primary advantage of OA journals is that the entire content is freely available to users everywhere, and this may enhance citation rates of OA papers. Aquatic Invasions applies a regular funding model for OA journals, by charging authors for processing of their manuscripts (information on page charges and on applications for support can be found at Author Guidelines web page). Also, the journal is currently seeking additional funding from relevant organizations in order to support students, retired scientists, those from low income countries.
Please see more information on advantages of OA journals and their funding models at Wikipedia and Nordic Open Access Publishing web sites, and in recent publications:

Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, et al. (2010) Self-selected or mandated, Open Access increases citation impact for higher quality research. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13636. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013636
Piwowar HA, Vision TJ (2013) Data reuse and the open data citation advantage. PeerJ 1: e175. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.175
Ottaviani J (2016) The post-embargo Open Access citation advantage: it exists (probably), it’s modest (usually), and the rich get richer (of course). PLoS ONE 11(8): e0159614. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159614
Tennant JP, Waldner F, Jacques DC et al. (2016) The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review. F1000Research 5: 632. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.8460.1