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About the Journal

Polar Research is the international, peer-reviewed journal of the Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway's central institution for research, environmental monitoring and mapping of the polar regions. Aiming to promote the exchange of scientific knowledge about the Arctic and Antarctic across disciplinary boundaries, Polar Research serves a global community of polar researchers and managers. Polar Research was the first all-open access polar journal and has been awarded the DOAJ Seal, a mark of certification for open access journals, awarded by the Directory of Open Access Journals to journals that achieve a high level of openness and adhere to Best Practice and high publishing standards. From the journal’s first issue in 1982 to the current volume, all articles are available to readers free of charge. 

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Beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas): knowledge from the wild, human care and TEK

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  • Open access – Polar Research publishes your work free from all access barriers, allowing for global distribution and more citations.

  • Retain copyright – you retain copyright to your article and are free to disseminate it, make copies, deposit it in any repository, and more.

  • Impact Factor – The 2019 Impact Factor as announced by Clarivate Analytics, is 1.127 . 2019 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.877

  • Indexing – once published, your article will be comprehensively indexed in the foremost international databases.

  • Post-publication statistics – metrics shown with each article make it easy to check how often your paper is being downloaded via Polar Research's website and how often it is being mentioned and shared through social media. 

  • Comply with archiving policies – you can deposit any version of your paper in any required repository or archive, and post articles on your personal or institutional website.

  • Add supplementary material – you can make data sets, protocols, very large illustrations, videos, questionnaires etc. available to readers alongside your article. 

  • ZooBank - Polar Research is registered in ZooBank – electronic-only publication of nomenclatural acts is now permited by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Registration should take place before publication.  

  • Personal service – Polar Research is published in partnership with Open Academia, a Publishing Partner dedicated to giving you excellent service all the way from submission to publication.

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Polar Research | eISSN 1751-8369 (print volumes from 1982 – 2010: ISSN 0800-0395).
Editor-in-Chief: Helle V. Goldman 

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