Objetive

Natural Science journal that has as content the study of organisms, ecological and geological process in Islands and the impact of human activities on them, in both terrestrial and marine environments. With this objective, we welcome biological studies on taxonomy, ecology, biogeography, evolution and conservation; as well as those related with Earth Science on volcanology, geomorphology, climatology and oceanography. With this scope, Islands Science pretend to be a journal that integrates the study of islands nature in order to promote wider knowledge of its biodiversity and the geological and ecological process that determine it.

History

This journal arises to have a common space for the dissemination and reflection of the singular processes that occur in islands, and that makes them genuine natural laboratories. These knowledge topics are also studied in our official master programs of the Universidad de La Laguna: “Terrestrial Biodiversity and Conservation on Islands” and “Marine Biology: Biodiversity and Conservation”. In this sense, these annual issues will act as a teaching support for professors and students of these masters, and to help those students with scientific vocation looking for their first steps on the publication of their studies.

Submission

We accept manuscript in Spanish or English through the OJS platform of the Servicio de Publicaciones of the Universidad de La Laguna (SPULLwebs). Once we receive the manuscript it will be considered for the editors who have the right to reject it or to submitted to reviewers. The main reason for a direct rejection could be do not follow general authors guidelines or the incoherence of the manuscript with the main scope of the journal.

If the manuscript passes the first evaluation it will be submitted to two specialized reviewers of the scientific council who could suggest a third or a fourth reviewer. Once we receive the reviewer comments, the editors would accept the manuscript with no changes, with minor changes, with major changes or to reject it. Once the authors have received editor and reviewer’s comments will have a prudential time of one month to re-submit their corrections to the journal.

All the accepted papers will have a digital object identifier (DOI) and will be published online immediately. These will be uploaded to the web page of the Servicio of SPULL in pdf format and will be open access with Creative Commons-Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional.

Scientia Insularum wants to be a fast-publishing electronic journal with a short review and publication process of papers. It is also planned to compile specific volumes that would be published in paper format.