About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Revista Biológico Agropecuaria Tuxpan is a semi-annual scholarly peer-reviewed Open Access journal. The journal publishes original papers on Biological Agricultural Sciences focusing on Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, Agronomy, Agribusiness, Terrestrial Biology and Marine Biology. Likewise, the journal publishes work advances, technical notes, book reviews, as well as bibliographic reviews and monographs. The journal is published by Agrícola Tuxpan Editorial since 2013.

Peer-review type

The journal adopted the double-blind peer-review process. The identity of the peer-reviewer and author are anonymized.

Peer Review Process

Submissions are initially assessed by the editor-in-chief. If the manuscripts don't meet the minimum requirements, outlined in the submission preparation checklist, they are rejected. In addition, the editor-in-chief might reject the papers whether they are out of scope or suitability for the journal policies.

Submissions that pass the initial screening process are later reviewed by the editor-in-chief. The editor-in-chief might ask the authors for corrections and supplementary files.

Afterwards, the editor-in-chief assigns two external peer-reviewers, experts on the topic, to evaluate the submission. The peer-review process might last several months. The journal has adopted a double-blind peer-review process in which the identity of the peer-reviewer and author is anonymized. Each review ends with a recommendation provided by the peer-reviewer. The peer-reviewer might recommend the editor-in-chief to publish the manuscript with no corrections at all. However, the peer-reviewer might recommend to reject the paper or publish it after major or minor corrections.

Lastly, the editor-in-chief takes into consideration the recommendations from peer-reviewers. The editor-in-chief might decide to send the paper to other peer-reviewer, accept or reject the paper. This decision is final and cannot be appealed.

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. Therefore, all the contents of the Journal are freely accessible and are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Copyright

Authors who submit any work to this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Archiving and digital preservation policy

Revista Biológico Agropecuaria Tuxpan allows self-archiving of accepted and published manuscripts. Authors retain copyright ownership and may archive pre-published or post-published versions or publisher's pdf versions in personal or institutional repositories or libraries at any time without the express permission of the journal or publisher.

Authors of articles published in Revista Biológico Agropecuaria Tuxpan have the right to deposit accepted or published versions of manuscripts in institutional repositories. Authors may make them publicly and immediately available upon citation as the site where they were originally published.

Revista Biológico Agropecuaria Tuxpan participates in the Public Knowledge Project Private LOCKSS Network (PKP PLN) digital preservation that allows for long-term digital preservation should the journal go offline. The LOCKSS programme allows for decentralised and distributed preservation of long-term access to manuscripts. It also allows for the digital preservation of authentic versions of manuscripts.

	Published Version
	Open Access Publishing		This pathway includes Open Access publishing
	Embargo		No Embargo
	Licence		CC BY 4.0
	Copyright Owner		Authors
	Location		Any website Journal website
	Conditions		Published version in the journal should be mentioned

	Accepted Version
	Prerequisite		None
	Embargo		No Embargo
	Licence		CC BY 4.0
	Copyright Owner		Authors
	Location		Author's website Institutional repository Journal's website

	Submitted Version
	Prerequisite		None
	Embargo		No Embargo
	Copyright Owner		Authors
	Location		Author's website Institutional Repository Preprint repository

Publication frequency

Revista Biológico Agropecuaria Tuxpan is published semiannually. The issues are published at the end of June and December every year.

Plagiarism detection and originality report

All submissions will be added in Turnitin to obtain a similarity report. This report includes a percentage of similarities found in the manuscript based on published works. Thanks to the similiarity report, it's also possible to assess whether the similarities become plagiarism. Although the Turnitin's similarities are not a direct measure of plagiarism, they help to find issues concerning the incorrect use of the academic style and published text that the author passes off as his own.

If the manuscript has a similarity index larger than 25%, the editor-in-chief will ask the author to reduce it.

Article Processing Charges or APCs

There are no article processing charges involved in the submission, review and publication of articles in the journal.

Rejection Rate

Based on the journal metrics, the current rejection rate can be calculalted based on the following formula:
rejection rate = 100% - [ (published works / submissions) * 100 ]

Year	Submissions	Published works	Rejection rate
2021	52	30	42.31%
2022	75	41	45.33%

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

The publication of an article in the peer-reviewed scholarly journal Revista Biológico Agropecuaria Tuxpan is a process of permanent knowledge improvement. The journal encourages open publishing digital articles. Additionally, it considers its duty to promote the transmission of scientific knowledge, ensuring its rigor and quality, under the ethical commitment of the scientific and academic communities. The protocols and guidelines described make reference to the Code of Conduct for editors of scientific journals that established the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Duties and responsibilities
Revista Biológico Agropecuaria Tuxpan is committed to:
• assuring the quality of the scientific material published
• guaranteeing freedom of expression
• maintaining the academic integrity of the content, ensuring that the published material follows internationally accepted ethical norms
• publishing corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed

Obligations of authors
Authors must guarantee the authorship of the documents presented. Authorship corresponds to those who have made a significant contribution to the work. If the work has significant contributions from more than one author, these contributors should appear as co-authors.
Authors must provide contact information in order to facilitate communication with other researchers in relation to their published work. This contact information will appear with the published work.

Originality and plagiarism
Authors must ensure that they have obtained permission to publish any materials presented in their work, as well as having exercised the right to quote other author´s work.
Those manuscripts in which plagiarism is detected will be rejected. Likewise, an author should not submit originals to describe essentially the same work as previously published.

Complaints
Revista Biológico Agropecuaria Tuxpan should respond promptly to complaints.
In any case, if the individuals involved are unable to satisfy their claims, they have the right to raise their protests to higher authorities.

Protecting individual data
Revista Biológico Agropecuaria Tuxpan guarantees the confidentiality of individual information. It is the authors’ responsibility to obtain authorizations to publish images and trademarks used in their work, and any other personal data (e.g. age, sex, social status of study participants).

Monitoring malpractice
Revista Biológico Agropecuaria Tuxpan accepts the obligation to act accordingly in cases of suspected malpractice or misconduct. Any manuscripts that raise questions about possible misconduct will be rejected.
Revista Biológico Agropecuaria Tuxpan will make every reasonable effort to ensure that the manuscripts submitted for evaluation are rigorous and ethically appropriate.

Integrity and academic rigor
Any time a published article is suspected of containing major misstatements or misleading or distorted information, it must be corrected immediately.
Any manuscript whose content is found to be fraudulent will be removed immediately from the indexing systems and it will not be available for reading.

Complaints
Any author, reader or reviewer may send complaints by email to Revista Biológico Agropecuaria Tuxpan : [email protected]

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