AIM AND SCOPE

Folia Amazónica is a specialized open access scientific journal published by the Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP) that began 1988. Its objective is to disseminate articles and scientific notes resulting from original research on the knowledge, conservation and sustainable use of Amazonian forests to a target audience of professionals, academics and students. The journal covers a wide breadth of the biological sciences such as botany, ecology, biochemistry, zoology, forestry, aquaculture, and agronomy, with a distinctly Amazonian focus.

It is a peer reviewed journal that publishes scientific articles in Spanish, Portuguese and English biannually (June and December) and have a policy of forthcoming articles. It has a chief editor and a scientific editorial board made up of renowned Peruvian and foreign researchers and academics. It is indexed in the academic databases: Scopus ; Latindex  (Regional Online Information System for Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal); BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine),  CrossRef  (DOI International Registration Agency); Zoological Record  (The world's oldest continuing database of animal biology) and Qualis (Brazilian System for the Evaluation of Scientific Journals).

Articles and scientific notes must contain original information that has not been presented in other publications or at the time of their presentation or be under evaluation by other journals.

ISSN on line: 2410-1184