invasive species

Integrative and Comparative Biology (ICB), formerly American Zoologist, is one of the most highly respected and cited journals in the field of organismal biology. 

ICB accepts many types of articles, including original research, reviews, perspectives, and is always open to exploring new ways to uplift scholarly voices.

Find out more about some of our article formats under the tab Article types. 

ICB is dedicated to an inclusive publishing process. Please reach out to ICB with your manuscript idea and we are happy to provide advice and guidelines to support your writing process.

Authors publishing their article in ICB are entitled to 12-15 free-to-publish pages (roughly 600 to 700 words per page) upon acceptance. 

ICB is a subscription model journal, and all articles are free to read online between one and five years after publication. Some special issues and articles are free to read upon publication.

For further details see: https://academic.oup.com/icb

Initial submission. The window for submission is between October 1, 2025 and March 1, 2026. Stay tuned for more details on virtual meetings to facilitate collaborations and manuscript writing.

Developing your manuscript. ICB offers writing workshops and information sessions about the submission process. To request a workshop, contact Suzanne Miller (icbjournal@sicb.org).

You can find the slide decks for these and other workshops on this website under the tab Writing.

To facilitate peer feedback, we invite authors to share their manuscript drafts with other authors participating in this special issue.

For more info on this special issue, you can also contact:

Dr. Noah Bressman

email: NRBRESSMAN@salisbury.edu

Invasive species are a problem all over the world, causing ecological and economic harm. While many scientists and wildlife managers are working on prevention, containment, and eradication of invasive species through established methods, approaching the topic from unorthodox angles may yield new insights and improve the way we manage invasive species. After all, “established methods” were at one point experimental and untested. We invite papers that take an “outside-the-box” approach to invasive species to expand the way we address the issue.

Papers in this special issue will:

• Investigate novel methods and strategies for invasive species prevention, containment, eradication, and harm mitigation

• Use wild-caught invasive species as model organisms and alternatives to native species in organismal research

• Approach invasive species management from non-Western, indigenous, and/or unorthodox viewpoints

We are looking for original research, syntheses of existing data, conceptual frameworks that expand the ways invasive species are addressed. We are also excited to received reviews and perspectives that identify current challenges of invasive species management and potential solutions.

If you are interested, please contact Dr. Bressman by October 1st, 2025.