Editorial board
Editorial Board
Manuscripts submitted to International Marine Science Journal are screened, assigned and decided by the editorial board, whose members work in the marine sciences the journal publishes.
The board comprises 10 members; 7 of them record an ORCID iD, linked below so that any reader can confirm an identity and a publication record independently.
Journal International Marine Science Journal ISSN 2643-0282 (electronic) Publisher Open Access Pub
Members
The board
Each entry gives the member's institution, country and recorded field. Where an ORCID iD is held it is linked, and the linked record is the member's own.
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Cesar Amaral
Editorial Board
DNA Diagnostic Laboratory, Rio de Janeiro State University
Brazil
Marine biology, ichthyology, systematics and biogeography
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Timo Arula
Editorial Board
Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu
Estonia
Fish reproductive biology, early life history and marine fisheries ecology
ORCID 0000-0001-9621-1168
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Simone Cappello
Editorial Board
Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnology (IRBIM), CNR, Messina
Italy
Marine microbiology, marine biotechnology and bioremediation
ORCID 0000-0002-5593-6004
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Raffaella Casotti
Editorial Board
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples
Italy
Marine microbial ecology, coastal ecology and flow cytometry
ORCID 0000-0002-9876-4601
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Nil Guler
Editorial Board
Department of Maritime Transportation and Management Engineering, Istanbul Technical University
Turkey
Maritime transportation engineering
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Fedekar Madkour
Editorial Board
Marine Science Department, Port Said University
Egypt
Marine plankton ecology, marine biodiversity and molecular marine biology
ORCID 0000-0001-8871-9877
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Mónica Cristina Martins
Editorial Board
SGS Portugal, Lisbon
Portugal
Environmental microbiology and environmental biotechnology
ORCID 0000-0001-8242-7750
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Begoña Martínez-Crego
Editorial Board
University of Algarve, Faro
Portugal
Seagrass biology and ecology, bioindicators, and coastal biodiversity
ORCID 0000-0002-9051-6961
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Amal Mohamed
Editorial Board
Umm Al-Qura University
Saudi Arabia
Biochemistry and oxidative-stress biology
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Aurelie Moulins
Editorial Board
CIMA Research Foundation, and University of Genoa
Italy
Cetacean ecology, marine protected areas and marine conservation
ORCID 0000-0003-0843-1166
Expertise
Subject coverage
The fields the board's own records cover, taken from the members listed above.
- Marine ecology, biodiversity and systematics
- Biological oceanography and marine biology
- Marine microbiology
- Fisheries science and fish biology
- Marine conservation and protected areas
- Coastal and estuarine ecology
- Marine biotechnology
- Marine environmental science
The journal's full research territory is set out on the Aims and Scope page.
Governance
Editorial governance
How the board handles manuscripts, and the limits it works within.
- Screening and review
- All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
- Review model
- Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
- Reviewers
- Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
- Decision criteria
- Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
- Editorial independence
- Decisions rest with the handling editor and the board. Payment of an article processing charge, membership of any program, and an author's seniority or institution play no part in the assessment of a manuscript.
- Competing interests
- Editors declare financial and non-financial interests that could be seen to influence an assessment, and step aside from handling a manuscript where such an interest arises.
- Manuscripts from editors
- A manuscript authored or co-authored by a member of the board is handled by another qualified editor without a competing interest. The member takes no part in the assessment of their own work and has no access to the reviewer identities or reports.
- Confidentiality
- Submitted manuscripts are confidential. Editors and reviewers do not disclose, use or retain unpublished material, and reviewers securely delete downloaded files after submitting a review.
Marine research often involves field sampling, protected species, marine protected areas, fisheries data and animal welfare. Editors assess ethical compliance on those grounds alongside scientific quality; the requirements are set out in full on the Editorial Policies page, and reviewer expectations on the reviewer guidelines page.
Joining
Joining the board
The journal welcomes approaches from researchers working across marine and ocean science who are willing to handle manuscripts or review for IMSJ. Editorial appointments are made on subject expertise and publication record, and members are asked to declare competing interests on appointment and to keep that declaration current.
Researchers interested in an editorial or reviewing role can read the editor guidelines and the reviewer guidelines, or write to the editorial office.
Work with the journal
To propose yourself for the editorial board or the reviewer register, or to ask which editor would handle a particular manuscript, write to the editorial office.
Contact the editorial office Submit a manuscript
International Marine Science Journal (IMSJ) · ISSN 2643-0282 · Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302 · published open access by Open Access Pub under CC BY 4.0, with copyright retained by authors. Editorial decisions are independent of any fee, service, membership or role.