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Multidisciplinary Science Journal just earned a milestone worth celebrating: in the latest CiteScore update, the journal...
10/06/2026

Multidisciplinary Science Journal just earned a milestone worth celebrating: in the latest CiteScore update, the journal rose from 0.5 to 1.1 — a 120% jump over the previous cycle. In other words, its score more than doubled in a single year.

🚀 CiteScore from 0.5 → 1.1 (+120%)
⬆️ Quartile jump: from Q4 to Q3
🏅 Ranked 131 of 260 in the Multidisciplinary category
🌍 More citations, more reach, more international recognition

🔎 But what exactly is CiteScore?

It's a metric calculated by Scopus (one of the world's largest scientific databases) that measures a journal's impact: in practice, it shows how often, on average, the articles a journal publishes are cited by other researchers. The higher the number, the greater the reach and influence of what the journal puts out.

🏆 From Q4 to Q3 — what changes in practice

Journals are sorted into four performance tiers, known as quartiles. With the new CiteScore, MSJ climbed into Q3 in the Multidisciplinary category, confirming that its content is being increasingly read, cited, and recognized by the international scientific community.

✨ Why this matters to you

MSJ is Malque's multidisciplinary, continuous-flow journal — a home for research across many fields, where accepted studies reach readers as soon as they're ready. Seeing its impact grow shows that open, fast, and far-reaching science makes a real difference. And, being open-access, that impact reaches anyone, anywhere.

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Multidisciplinary Reviews just received one of the best pieces of news in its history: in the latest CiteScore update, t...
09/06/2026

Multidisciplinary Reviews just received one of the best pieces of news in its history: in the latest CiteScore update, the journal jumped from 0.5 to 1.4 — a 180% rise over the previous cycle. In other words, the score nearly tripled in a single year.

🚀 CiteScore from 0.5 → 1.4 (+180%)
⬆️ Quartile jump: from Q4 to Q3
🏅 Ranked 109 of 260 in the Multidisciplinary category
🌍 More citations, more reach, more international recognition

🔎 What exactly is CiteScore?

It's a metric calculated by Scopus (one of the world's largest scientific databases) that measures a journal's impact: in practice, it shows how often, on average, the articles a journal publishes are cited by other researchers. The higher the number, the greater the reach and influence of what the journal puts out.

🏆 From Q4 to Q3 — what changes in practice

Journals are sorted into four performance tiers, known as quartiles. With the new CiteScore, MR climbed into Q3 in the Multidisciplinary category, confirming that its content is being increasingly read, cited, and recognized by the international scientific community.

✨ Why this matters to you

MR is Malque's first journal dedicated exclusively to review articles — the ones that gather, organize, and make sense of what we already know about a topic. Seeing this format gain traction shows that well-crafted syntheses play an essential role in advancing knowledge. And, being open-access, that impact reaches anyone, anywhere.

What other discoveries will this growth go on to spark? 🚀

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🌍 What 25 Years of Science Tell Us About Wildlife and a Warming PlanetEvery species on Earth has evolved within a climat...
05/06/2026

🌍 What 25 Years of Science Tell Us About Wildlife and a Warming Planet

Every species on Earth has evolved within a climate window — a narrow range of temperatures, precipitation rhythms, and seasonal cues that shape when they breed, where they migrate, and what they eat. Climate change is shattering that window.

A review in Wild Animals synthesized peer-reviewed research from 2000 to 2025 across Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, and Google Scholar — mapping what decades of evidence reveal about the fate of wildlife in a warming world.

The findings trace a cascade. As temperatures rise and precipitation patterns shift, habitats contract beyond what species can follow — but the disruption runs deeper than geography. Migration routes are changing. Breeding seasons are misaligning with the food sources that make reproduction viable — a phenomenon called phenological mismatch, where events once synchronized now diverge.

Reproductive cycles break down, shrinking viability for species with little margin for error. 🐾

Disease adds another layer. As climate shifts push vector species — mosquitoes, ticks, and others — into new territories, the pathogens they carry follow. Wildlife populations that never developed immunity face outbreaks they have no evolutionary defense against.

In marine ecosystems, ocean warming, acidification, and sea-level rise are dismantling conditions coral reefs and marine mammals depend on. And everywhere, climate change compounds with pollution, invasive species, and habitat fragmentation — accelerating biodiversity loss far beyond what any single stressor would cause.
The review's conclusion is urgent: coordinated, ecosystem-based conservation — designed for resilience and adaptability, not fixed boundaries — is no longer optional.

On World Environment Day, that message lands harder than ever. How do we design conservation for a world that is no longer the one these species evolved in? 🌿

Read our blog post: https://malque.pub/what-25-years-of-research-reveal-about-the-true-impacts-of-global-warming-on-wildlife/

🔬 This research was conducted by:

Sajad Ali Laghari, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences , Sakrand, Pakistan

🚲 Two Wheels. One Planet.On June 3, 1817, Karl von Drais rolled through the streets of Mannheim on a wooden machine with...
03/06/2026

🚲 Two Wheels. One Planet.

On June 3, 1817, Karl von Drais rolled through the streets of Mannheim on a wooden machine with two wheels and no pedals — pushed by his own feet, steered by his own hands. He called it the Laufmaschine. We call it the ancestor of a vehicle that would go on to change the world.

Two centuries later, the bicycle is everywhere — and everything. It is the commuter threading through Jakarta traffic before dawn. The school child in Nairobi who would otherwise walk four hours each way. The elderly resident in Amsterdam cycling to the market at 80. One billion bicycles are in circulation worldwide — more than twice the number of cars.

The United Nations declared June 3 World Bicycle Day in 2018, recognizing what science had already confirmed: cycling reduces cardiovascular disease, improves mental health, lowers carbon emissions, and enhances quality of life across ages and income levels. In cities where cycling infrastructure expands, so does physical activity — and the public health dividend follows. 🌍

But the bicycle is also a statement about what cities are for. Streets designed around people rather than engines connect directly to the Sustainable Development Goals on health (SDG 3), sustainable cities (SDG 11), and climate action (SDG 13).

At Malque Publishing, we believe knowledge — like a well-designed cycling network — should move freely and reach everyone. Open access is our lane.

Happy World Bicycle Day. Keep rolling. 🚴

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🥛 A Glass of Milk May Hold More Than You ThinkEvery year, World Milk Day reminds us how central this drink is to human l...
01/06/2026

🥛 A Glass of Milk May Hold More Than You Think

Every year, World Milk Day reminds us how central this drink is to human life. Milk is among the most nutritionally complete foods on Earth — rich in protein, calcium, vitamins B12 and D, and essential fats. It sustains infants, supports bone development, and forms the dietary backbone of billions of people. For many smallholder communities, it is not a commodity — it is a lifeline.

Yet behind this vital food lies a question that rarely makes headlines: how safe is the milk actually reaching consumers? A new study in Applied Veterinary Research investigated raw milk quality across smallholder dairy farms in Mwanza City, Tanzania, mapping farm infrastructure, milking practices, adulteration rates, and the prevalence of mastitis and brucellosis.

The results were striking. Despite basic structural conditions, hygiene during milking fell dangerously short — only 3.23% of farmers used teat dips. Almost 30% of samples showed signs of adulteration, and 55.5% tested positive for the California Mastitis Test, a key marker of subclinical infection. Coliform spp. dominated the bacterial findings (40.6%), followed by Staphylococcus spp. and Proteus spp. 🔬

The authors call for stronger farmer training and stricter quality enforcement — changes that could reduce contamination risks before milk ever leaves the farm.

On a day dedicated to celebrating milk, this research asks us to look beyond the glass. What would meaningful dairy safety policy look like for smallholder producers? 🐄

Read the full article: https://doi.org/10.31893/avr.2024019

🔬 This research was conducted by: Edwin Peter Chang'a, Tanzania Godfrey Lucas Chasama, Tanzania Daniel Pius Mdetele, Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, Tanzania Heriel Fanuel Massawe, Tanzania

In May, researchers from Vietnam, Indonesia, Tanzania, the Philippines, Nepal, India, Jordan, and beyond had their work ...
29/05/2026

In May, researchers from Vietnam, Indonesia, Tanzania, the Philippines, Nepal, India, Jordan, and beyond had their work read, shared, and discovered at Malque. Across nine journals, the numbers tell a story of what the global scientific community is reading, discussing, and citing right now.

From the psychology of test preparation in Vietnamese universities to the digital transformation of Bollywood. From the hidden dynamics of human-elephant coexistence in Nepal to the centuries-old history of slavery in ancient India. From tick infestations threatening smallholder farmers in Tanzania to AI systems learning to allocate hospital beds under crisis conditions.

🔬 Science is not a monolith — and neither is its audience.

This month's top-performing articles crossed disciplines, continents, and conversations. Swipe through to discover which research captured the most attention in May — and find your next read. 👉

🏆 A special congratulations to the authors behind May's most-read work — Dang et al., whose research on VSTEP test preparation reached 2,515 readers and sparked conversations across education communities worldwide. We also celebrate Dunakhir et al. (MR, 2,371 views), Armiah et al. (MSJ, 2,211 views), Del Rosario et al. (MSJ, 1,721 views), and Hossain et al. (HJ, 1,263 views) — your work resonated far beyond the page. To every author featured this month: thank you for advancing science openly. 🎉

🏆 MOST READ ARTICLE
How students perceive test-preparation teaching in their VSTEP courses: A qualitative study at a private university in Vietnam
Dung Thi Bao Dang Lanh Van Le Du Thanh Tran
https://doi.org/10.31893/multiscience.2025216

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🐢 It spends 84% of its time in hiding. But science watched every hour.With its elongated shell and pale yellow head, Ind...
27/05/2026

🐢 It spends 84% of its time in hiding. But science watched every hour.

With its elongated shell and pale yellow head, Indotestudo elongata is among Asia's most distinctive — and most imperiled — tortoises. Critically Endangered, its populations have dropped by over 80% in three generations, pushed to the edge by habitat loss and the wildlife trade. Rescue centers are now among its last refuges — and understanding how it lives, feeds, and grows in captivity has never been more urgent.

A new study in Wild Animals tracks nine individuals at the Turtle Rescue and Conservation Centre (TRCC) in Jhapa, Nepal, over five months of hour-by-hour observation — the most detailed behavioral portrait of this species in captivity to date.

🔍 From 6 am to 10 pm, every day, researchers recorded each animal's activity, movement, and feeding choices — for up to 15 days per month. What emerged is a roadmap for better captive care.

Key findings:

→ Tortoises spent 84.07% of their time hiding, mostly under leaf litter (45.14%) — adaptive concealment, not idleness

→ Females are significantly more active than males (p = 0.025), traveling greater distances across all months

→ Activity peaks in the evening (22.31%) and nearly disappears at night (0.31%)

→ Spring (premonsoon) drives peak activity (18.76%) — and body weight drops, likely due to breeding movements

→ Banana and Hibiscus flowers were the most preferred foods (100%); fish flesh led among animal-based items

→ Growth is strikingly slow: just 2–3 mm in body dimensions over six months

🌿 These findings directly inform how rescue centers should manage diet, space, and seasonal care for this species — a lifeline for a tortoise running out of wild habitat.

Read the full article: https://doi.org/10.31893/wild.2026005

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🔬 This research was conducted by:

Ram Chandra Wagle, Tribhuvan Secondary School, Belatari, Nepal
Damodar Thapa Chhetry, Tribhuvan University, Biratnagar, Nepal
Birendra Bahadur Bist, Shree Nagarjun Secondary School, Nepal
Ram Chandra Adhikari, Shikshadeep College, Nepal
Tapil Prakash Rai, TRCC / Mechi Multiple Campus, Nepal
Asmita Ranapaheli, SMCRF , Kathmandu, Nepal

🌍 Africa holds the world's richest biodiversity, the oldest human civilizations, and some of science's most urgent front...
25/05/2026

🌍 Africa holds the world's richest biodiversity, the oldest human civilizations, and some of science's most urgent frontiers. On Africa Day, we celebrate not only what the continent carries — but what it builds.

Few nations embody this duality more fully than Tanzania. From the Serengeti to the Great Rift Valley, it is home to extraordinary ecological wealth — and to millions of families whose livelihoods depend on livestock. Cattle, goats, and sheep form the backbone of rural Tanzania, representing 93.2% of its quadruped meat-producing animals.

A new review in Animal and Veterinary Research (Malque Publishing) takes a hard look at what threatens them. For decades, a silent enemy has been circulating through Tanzanian herds — and across its wildlife.

🔬 Bluetongue (BT) is caused by the homonimous virus (BTV), an Orbivirus transmitted by Culicoides midges — highly infectious but not contagious.

Researchers Emanuel S. Swai and Hezron E. Nonga analyzed five scientific studies and one surveillance dataset spanning 35 years of Tanzanian data (1987–2022).
The findings reveal exposure of striking scale:

→ ELISA seroprevalence: 87.8% in cattle, 62.7% in sheep, 58.0% in goats

→ RT-qPCR prevalence: 50% in sheep, 44.4% in cattle, 34.8% in goats

→ BTV antibodies confirmed in both domestic livestock and wild ruminants — a virus that moves across the line between farm and wilderness

🐄 The study calls for systematic Culicoides surveillance — species, abundance, and infection rates — as the foundation for BT prevention. African science mapping African diseases, protecting African livelihoods.

Read the full article: https://doi.org/10.31893/avr.2025002

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🔬 This research was conducted by:

Emanuel S. Swai, Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, Dodoma, Tanzania
Hezron E. Nonga, Sokoine University of Agriculture , Morogoro, Tanzania

🌿 It's harvest season in Nepal's Terai. The rice is ripe — and so is the danger.Every September, Asian elephants move th...
22/05/2026

🌿 It's harvest season in Nepal's Terai. The rice is ripe — and so is the danger.

Every September, Asian elephants move through the same migratory corridors they have crossed for centuries. And every September, they find the same fields — now full of families who depend on them.

A new study published in Wild Animals (Malque Publishing) investigated this tension in Mechinagar Municipality, Nepal. Researchers surveyed 97 residents on their perceptions, losses, and coping strategies in one of Asia's most contested landscapes: a critical biodiversity corridor and a rural heartland at once.
🔍 65% of respondents support elephant conservation. But 35% do not — and not out of indifference. The study found that compensation status was the variable most significantly associated with willingness to coexist (p < 0.001).

The data tells a troubling story:

→ 100% of major conflict events occur between September and November, during rice and maize Harvest

→ Only 28% of affected residents received any compensation — 59% were denied
→ Among those compensated, 40% waited between one week and three years to receive it

→ Solar fencing was rated the most effective mitigation tool (38%), followed by vehicle patrols and active crop guarding (32%)

→ Migratory and resident elephants show significantly different conflict patterns — one-size-fits-all solutions may fall short

🐘 The researchers call for stronger government intervention, habitat conservation, alternative crops, and awareness programs for coexistence. But the most urgent finding may be the quietest one: when compensation fails, so does the willingness to protect.

Who actually bears the cost of conservation?

Read the full article: https://doi.org/10.31893/wild.2026006

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🔬 This research was conducted by:

Asmita Ranapaheli, Small Mammals Conservation and Research Foundation , Nepal
Birendra Bahadur Bist, Shree Nagarjun Secondary School, Baitadi, Nepal
Abraham Mugoya Wayirawo, Uganda Wildlife Authority , Uganda

20/05/2026

🐝 For centuries, the Maya kept bees without cages, smoke, or fear.

Melipona beecheii — the Maya bee — has been at the heart of meliponiculture on the Yucatan Peninsula for generations. Unlike the European honeybee introduced after colonization, this small, stingless bee is native to Mesoamerica, deeply woven into the ecological and cultural fabric of the region. And until recently, much of its daily life remained unmapped by science.

🔬 A study published in the Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology (JABB) set out to change that. Researchers Juan Carlos Di Trani and Yostin Añino tracked the daily foraging patterns of M. beecheii across a full year in Chetumal, México, comparing its behavior with that of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) during summer and winter.

What they found reveals a bee with a remarkably organized day: pollen foraging peaks in the early morning hours, while nectar collection reaches its maximum at midday. Season, resource type, and time of day each shape activity in distinct ways — and in one counterintuitive finding, both species make far more foraging trips in winter than in summer. Each bee follows its own internal logic: seasonal preferences diverge in ways that reflect millions of years of parallel evolution in the same landscape.

📌 On World Bee Day, this research is a reminder that bees are not a monolith. Understanding the behavior of native, stingless species — their schedules, their preferences, their fragility — is essential to protecting them in a world where habitat loss and agrochemicals are narrowing the space where they can survive.

Read the full article: https://doi.org/10.31893/jabb.2025009

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🔬 This research was conducted by:

Juan Carlos Di Trani — Centro de Investigaciones Agroecológicas del Pacífico Central de Panamá (CIAPCP-AIP), Chitre, Panama Yostin Añino — Museo de Invertebrados G.B. Fairchild, Universidad de Panamá , Panama | Estación Científica Coiba , Panama

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