Internauka: does a paper here count for EB-1A and O-1?
Multidisciplinary International Scientific Journal "Internauka"
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 internauka.org. Paraphrased, checked Oct 2, 2026.
- Publisher
- Publisher: Internauka LLC, Moscow; it also organises remote conferences.
- ISSN
- The site prints ISSN 2687-0142.
- Indexing
- The site says issues are placed on eLIBRARY.RU under a 2015 contract.
- Editorial board
- 22 people, mostly from Russian universities, plus Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and a US-based consultant; some are practising doctors and practitioner-lecturers.
- Publication fee
- The site calculator for Internauka: 175 roubles per page, a printed journal 525 roubles, an e-certificate 155 roubles.
- The site menu has sections "Publication in VAK journals", "Publication in RINTs journals" and "EGPNI publications".
Source: the journal's site internauka.org (pages /, /calc, /redakcionnaya-kollegiya), 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
A paper in Multidisciplinary International Scientific Journal "Internauka" goes to the authorship criterion if it is yours and substantive and the journal has reach and indexing: the reputation of Multidisciplinary International Scientific Journal "Internauka" carries no weight without your contribution.
The "Authorship" criterion: what USCIS requires and how to meet itOpen the full catalogSimilar (Russia)
- APNI
- International Journal "Issues of Pedagogy"
- International Scientific Journal "Bulletin of Science"
- Research Electronic Journal "Alley of Science"
- Scientific and Practical Online Publication "Journal of Applied Research"
- Scientific Almanac
- Scientific Journal "Student Bulletin"
- Social Studies and Social Psychology
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