There has been lot of choices found in the research journals, whether it should be paid or unpaid journals. But the problem with the unpaid journals are that they are time consuming, so as per the students/authors has the scarcity of time. The article processing charges generally term as APC in short, it has the concept same as the publication,that its publication fees or charge issue by the journals to make the work available open access either in open access por hybrid access. Usually reputed journals without article processing charges proceed for the publication work or do it freely, unless author demands publishing manuscript in open access.
Thus, targeting a potential journal that can help to improve the research work valuation of the author /publisher is highly desired. The selecting such journals without article processing charges with having high impact factor is the tough job. So have the focus on some of the important features that journals must constitute:
Article Processing Charges for Publication
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- Fixed price
- Clear mentioning of details like paper standards required, pages and authors limit, date of submission, and other scheduled.
- Issue/volume of publication
- Certification details
- Journals authorization proofs/identification number of 8-digit
Apart from the publishing charges, journal should not demand other expenses and fees for the publication work and the accessibility. The ideal journal must be of high impact factor that has the reputation for the publication work and printing manuscript of the publisher. Also, the journal must be old enough to have the identity in the following field with at-least 5 years’ experience in the initial phase of publishing documents and research work. Journal selected must have all the legal authorization procedure done with the international under the national committee. While targeting the journal must have clear about the all fees structure that they are going to demand or not. The fees must be one time pay or installments after the completion of every stage procedure,that is pre-acceptance paper,post acceptance paper fee, extra author or extra pages fees, registration fees, digital certificate charges, publishing cost, article processing charges or accessibility fees, editing charges if in case, should make it clear while registering the paper. Therefore, keeping all this in mind choose the suitable journal as per the requirement and budget.