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International Scientific Journal "Academician"

Key answer

International Scientific Journal "Academician": tier 3, category "Kazakhstan". 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.

KazakhstanTier 3journal-academic.com

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 catalog

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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

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