Journal Information (Terms and Conditions)

BioInvasions Records

ISSN: 2242-1300 (electronic version)
Frequency: Quarterly
URL: http://www.reabic.net/journals/bir/Default.aspx
DOI: 10.3391/bir
Publisher: Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre - REABIC, PL 6, 00981 Helsinki, FINLAND

 

Aims and Scope

BioInvasions Records is an Open Access, peer-reviewed international journal focusing on field research of biological invasions in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems from around the world. It was established in November 2011 as a continuation of the former Aquatic Invasions Records, an electronic supplement of the international journal  Aquatic Invasions, with start-up funding from the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Collaborative Project enviroGRIDS.

BioInvasions Records provides authors with their rights protection concerning primary geo-referenced records, biological monitoring and surveys as well as timely publication of reports concerning first alien species records. This contributes to rapid information dissemination, risk assessment procedures and early warning systems on invasive alien species (IAS).

BioInvasions Records may also contribute to timely and coordinated eradication efforts of newly-found IAS. The fast and comprehensive peer review process of manuscripts serves as an effective quality control mechanism.

The journal provides a forum for professionals involved in research and management of invasive alien species, with focus on new records of non-native species.

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

 

Open Access policy

BioInvasions Records 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 BioInvasions Records 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. Adhering to the general funding model for OA journals, BioInvasions Records is charging authors for processing of their manuscripts. Also, the journal is currently seeking additional funding from relevant organizations in order to support students, retired scientists, those from low income countries, and also to support the submission of datasets with species records. Information on page charges and on applications for support can be found at "Author Guidelines" web page. 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

Data Publication policy

Submission of a manuscript to BioInvasions Records implies that all scientific information described in the manuscript, including all relevant primary field data, will be freely available online for any interested data user. We expect users of the data to cite the published paper. Geo-referenced species record information (both for non-native and native species), annotated checklists and biological profiles of non-native species should be deposited in the Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre (REABIC) information system (please check standard submission forms in the Manuscript presentation section of the Authors Guidelines) or in the other recognized online species record data repository (e.g. GBIF or one of its data sources). Please note that REABIC is a partner organisation and data provider for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) (REABIC profile at the GBIF web site) and for the developing European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN). All data deposited to REABIC will be publically available only after release of the relevant publication in BioInvasions Records, including relevant publication of species checklists or species occurrences with GBIF. All of these data or selected parts of them can be published in tabular format or as supplementary material as part of the online research paper without any size limit and without page charges. Relevant links and references will be included with deposited data in order to protect authors’ rights on this information and to increase the citability of their publication in BioInvasions Records.  

Nucleic acid sequences also should be deposited in an appropriate database (i.e. GenBank) in time for the accession number to be included in the published article.  

Authors may propose alternative repositories and archives for their data. If so, they should provide permanent open-access as is the case with the above options and should have some added value (e.g. greater quality assurance or and/integration of data in a specialized database).

 

Indexing services

BioInvasions Records is indexed by Web of Science ( Science Citation Index Expanded; Current Contents - Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences; Zoological Record; BIOSIS Previews ), Scopus, CAB Abstracts, EBSCO, DOAJ, and Google Scholar.

Web of Science 2021 Impact Factor: 1.672

Scopus CiteScore 2021: 2.8

 

Copyright

Authors of articles published in BioInvasions Records retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Please see also our Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

 

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