image: The Estuarine Management and Technologies (EMT) journal is now accepted in the Directory of Open Access Journals: a key scientific index, internationally renowned as a trusted quality filter for open-access journals.
Credit: Pensoft and the Estuarine Management and Technologies journal.
The Estuarine Management and Technologies (EMT) journal and its content are now included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): a key scientific index, internationally renowned as a trusted quality filter for open-access journals.
Having EMT accepted by DOAJ means that the journal has successfully passed a thorough assessment concerning its compliance with global standards of ethics, transparency and quality. The evaluation conducted by DOAJ includes an examination of the journal’s peer-review processes, editorial governance, transparency (e.g. publication fees, funding) and ethical policies (e.g. plagiarism, conflicts of interest). For many institutions, funders and libraries, DOAJ is seen as a credibility signal that distinguishes legitimate journals from predatory and/or low-quality ones.
The journal’s recognition comes only two years after the journal was launched as part of a promising joint initiative between a team of scientists headed by Dr. Soufiane Haddout (Ibn Tofail University, Morocco) and the open-access scientific publisher and technology provider Pensoft.
All articles published in the journal are already indexed and browsable on DOAJ. Future papers will be fetched by the platform right after they are published in EMT due to the automated data export workflows powered by Pensoft’s in-house ARPHA Publishing Platform.
Since early 2024, the journal has been seeking to support the exchange of research findings and ideas related to the conservation and sustainable management of estuarine ecosystems by utilising new technology and novel approaches. To further support scientists from around the globe, the journal operates under a Diamond Open Access model, meaning that neither publishing, nor reading incurs charges for authors or readers, respectively.
Today, EMT welcomes studies from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including physics, chemistry, geology, biology, and hydrology, with a focus on interdisciplinary, multifaceted approaches and holistic perspectives. A unique feature of the journal is its diverse range of publication types, such as Education & Communication, Estuarine scientists and Video paper in 180s.
“We are proud to announce that Estuarine Management and Technologies has achieved indexing in the Directory of Open Access Journals: our first significant milestone on the path to greater visibility and impact in the global scholarly community,”
said Dr. Soufiane Haddout, on behalf of the journal’s Editorial Board.
“This crucial first step in our indexing journey validates EMT's commitment to rigorous, transparent, and immediately accessible research on technological innovations for estuarine research, management, and conservation. DOAJ inclusion enhances discoverability for our authors' work and strengthens our role in advancing interdisciplinary solutions for these vital ecosystems. We are grateful to our authors, reviewers, and the Pensoft team,”
he added.
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About Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community. It is committed to ensuring quality content is openly available online for everyone. DOAJ's mission is to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language. DOAJ is committed to being 100% independent and maintaining all of its primary services and metadata as open to everyone.
About Estuarine Management and Technologies (EMT)
The Estuarine Management and Technologies (EMT) journal is designed to concentrate on the technological facets of researching, managing, and preserving estuarine environments. This encompasses environmental monitoring utilizing advanced technologies, hydrodynamic modeling for comprehending water flow, innovations in habitat restoration, strategies for adapting to climate change, sustainable bio-resource management, and technological solutions for effective policy and governance.
About the ARPHA publishing platform:
ARPHA is the first end-to-end, narrative- and data-integrated publishing solution that supports the full life cycle of a manuscript, from authoring to reviewing, publishing and dissemination. ARPHA provides accomplished and streamlined production workflows that can be customised according to the journal’s needs. The platform enables a variety of publishing models through a number of options for branding, production and revenue models to choose from. Today, the platform powers nearly 100 open-access peer-reviewed scholarly journals, including the whole journal portfolio of Pensoft, in addition to many journals owned and/or co-published by renowned institutions and societies from across the world. You can browse the journal list here.
About Pensoft:
Pensoft is an independent, open-access publisher and technology provider, best known for its biodiversity and ecology journals, including ZooKeys, Biodiversity Data Journal, Phytokeys, MycoKeys, IMA Fungus, One Ecosystem, Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, NeoBiota and many others. Over the years, the company has continuously been working on various platforms, tools and workflows designed to facilitate narrative and data findability, accessibility, discoverability and interoperability.