What is known about "APNI" from open sources?

ISSN: 2713-1513 (own site); Indexing (as the site states): eLibrary, elibrary (own site); checked 2026-09-09, source links on the page.

APNI: does a paper here count for EB-1A and O-1?

Key answer

Journal APNI: tier 1, category "Russia". It fits the authorship criterion if your article is peer-reviewed, substantive and in your field; the tier is a reference assessment, not a USCIS decision.

Scholarly journal

A reference card from our catalog.

RussiaTier 1apni.ru

From the journal's site and the registers

What the journal's site apni.ru states and what the registers show. Paraphrased, checked Oct 2, 2026.

Publisher: The page describes the journal "Aktualnye issledovaniya" (Current Research) of APNI. The eLIBRARY.RU card names the Agency for Advanced Scientific Research LLC (Belgorod) as founder and publisher.
Founded: According to the site, the journal was founded in 2019 and comes out weekly; the eLIBRARY.RU card gives 48 issues a year.
ISSN: The site gives ISSN 2713-1513; the eLIBRARY.RU card lists it as the print ISSN.
VAK list: On the eLIBRARY.RU card the VAK list line reads no; the site itself says the journal is not on the VAK list or in RINTs.
eLIBRARY.RU and RINTs: eLIBRARY.RU card: hosted on the platform; RINTs - no; RSCI - no.
Indexing: The site's words: hosted on eLibrary, listed in Ulrich's, indexed by Google Scholar, "impact factor" 6.575 (SJIFactor). The eLIBRARY.RU card: Scopus, WoS, DOAJ - no.
Peer review: Site: after a plagiarism check the article goes to a reviewer; review takes up to 3 days. The eLIBRARY.RU card: single-blind, 1 reviewer, 14 days to publication.
Editorial board: The site lists about 73 editorial board members: Russia (33), Uzbekistan (12), Kazakhstan (6), also Belarus, the US, Czechia, Iraq and others.
Publication fee: Fees: 230 roubles per page for a first publication, 184 for later ones; certificate and confirmation free; a printed copy posted in Russia 690 roubles, abroad plus 1,500.

The site offers a paid article-writing service, on condition that the finished text is published in APNI outlets.
According to the site, the publication certificate is sent right after payment, and the article goes online at that moment.

Source: the journal's site apni.ru (pages /about, /pay-and-discount, /how-publish, /editorial-board, /zakazat-statyu-dlya-publikacii-v-zhurnale); eLIBRARY.RU (journal record), checked Oct 2, 2026; the version on the site applies.

What officers look at: 8 CFR 204.5(h)(3)(vi) - scholarly article, peer review, readers, indexing

Facts from open sources

ISSN: 2713-1513 [own site]
Indexing (as the site states): eLibrary, elibrary [own site]

Collected automatically from the sources shown, checked 2026-09-09; not a USCIS assessment.

A paper in APNI goes to the authorship criterion if it is yours and substantive and the journal has reach and indexing: the reputation of APNI carries no weight without your contribution.

The "Authorship" criterion: what USCIS requires and how to meet it

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What is known about "APNI" from open sources?: ISSN: 2713-1513 (own site); Indexing (as the site states): eLibrary, elibrary (own site); checked 2026-09-09, source links on the page.

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Reference information, not legal advice and not a USCIS decision: the final assessment is the officer's.

Why "Scholarly authorship" gets refused

Accepted in 44% of challenged petitions (86 of 196); not an approval rate.

The articles are not shown to be scholarly in nature. Columns, blog posts and round-ups do not satisfy this criterion.

All refusal grounds and the sample