Journal Title：Neotropical Ichthyology

Neotropical Ichthyology is the official journal of the Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia (SBI). It is an international peer-reviewed Open Access periodical that publishes original articles and reviews exclusively on Neotropical freshwater and marine fishes and constitutes an International Forum to disclose and discuss results of original research on the diversity of marine, estuarine and freshwater Neotropical fishes.

-Frequency: Four issues per year published only online since 2020, using the ‘rolling pass’ system, which posts articles online immediately as soon as they are ready for publication. A searchable and citable Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is assigned to each article immediately after online publication, with no need to await the issue’s closing.

-Areas of interest: Biology, Biochemistry and Physiology, Ecology, Ethology, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Systematics.

-Peer review process: The Editor-in-Chief screens each manuscript submitted to Neotropical Ichthyology to verify whether it is within the journal’s scope and policy, presents original research and follows the journal’s guidelines. After passing through the initial screening, articles are assigned to a Section Editor, who then assigns an Associate Editor to start the single blind review process.

Neotropical Ichthyology 是 Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia (SBI) 的官方期刊。它是一份国际同行评审的开放获取期刊，专门发表关于新热带淡水和海洋鱼类的原创文章和评论，并构成一个国际论坛，公开和讨论关于海洋、河口和淡水新热带鱼类多样性的原创研究结果。

-频率：自 2020 年以来，每年仅在线发布四期，使用“滚动通行证”系统，该系统在文章准备好发表后立即在线发布。在线发表后，每篇文章都会立即分配一个可搜索和可引用的数字对象标识符 (DOI)，无需等待问题结束。

-感兴趣的领域：生物学、生物化学和生理学、生态学、行为学、遗传学和分子生物学、系统学。

-同行评审流程：主编筛选提交给 Neotropical Ichthyology 的每份手稿，以验证其是否在期刊的范围和政策范围内，展示原创研究并遵循期刊的指导方针。在通过初步筛选后，文章将被分配给一个栏目编辑，然后由其分配一名副编辑来启动单盲审流程。