Academician: does a paper here count for EB-1A and O-1?
International Scientific Journal "Academician"
Key answer
Scholarly journal
A reference card from our catalog.
From the journal's site and the registers
What the organisation itself states on its site journal-academic.com. Paraphrased, checked Oct 2, 2026.
- Publisher
- According to the site, the founder and publisher is Mezhdunarodny nauchny zhurnal AKADEMIK LLP, Astana, Kazakhstan.
- Country
- Kazakhstan, Astana.
- ISSN
- The site gives ISSN 2958-5104 and media registration KZ12VPY00034539 of 14 April 2021 (Kazakhstan).
- Peer review
- The site describes an "editorial check": topic fit, structure and formatting, scientific significance; subject specialists are involved "if needed".
- Editorial board
- The site invites degree holders to join the editorial board by emailing an application; board members publish free. No member list appears on the pages read.
- Publication fee
- Fee: standard publication 9,500 tenge / 1,700 roubles / 20 USD; urgent, within 1 hour, 16,800 tenge / 2,800 roubles / 37 USD; certificate and confirmation included.
- Frequency
- According to the site, the journal was founded in 2020, comes out 4 times a month and accepts articles around the clock; languages Russian, Kazakh, English.
- The home page promises "Publish an article in 1 hour, easily and quickly! Publication guaranteed!".
Source: the journal's site journal-academic.com (pages /priglashenie-k-vstupleniyu-v-redakcionnuyu-kollegiyu, /about, /orgvznos, /), 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
- 2958-5104 [own site]
Collected automatically from the sources shown, checked 2026-09-09; not a USCIS assessment.
A paper in International Scientific Journal "Academician" goes to the authorship criterion if it is yours and substantive and the journal has reach and indexing: the reputation of International Scientific Journal "Academician" carries no weight without your contribution.
The "Authorship" criterion: what USCIS requires and how to meet itOpen the full catalogSimilar (Kazakhstan)
FAQ
- What is known about "International Scientific Journal "Academician"" from open sources?
- ISSN: 2958-5104 (own site); checked 2026-09-09, source links on the page.
Documents and templates from the library
EB-2 NIW exhibit of seven peer-reviewed publicationsTemplate1 page anonymized access on request
Exhibit 14: Peer Review of Conference Papers (NIW)Template1 page anonymized access on request
Exhibit 12.1: Elsevier Book Series Page - Authorship Evidence (NIW)Template1 page anonymized access on request
List of approved peer-reviewed journalsSample1279 pages anonymized access on request
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