No Submission Charges

There are no article submission charges, no charges for rejected articles, and no charges based on the length of an article, figures or supplementary data etc. Editorial items (Editorials, Letters, Comments, Corrections, Additions, Retractions, etc.) are published free of charge

Article Processing Charges

In an open access model, the publication costs of an article are paid by the author or from the author's research grant, or by their sponsoring institution, in the form of Article Processing Charges (APCs). These Article Processing Charges replace subscription charges and allow publishers to make barrier-free access to the full-text of all published articles worldwide, immediately upon publication.

In addition, authors who publish in our open access journals retain the copyright of their work, which is released under a “Creative Commons Attribution License,” enabling the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction of an article in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

The submitted manuscript is passes through the many stages listed below. These tasks involve certain costs which are compensated to some extent by the article publishing charges, paid by the authors.

The Screening team, who perform initial technical checks of the manuscript.

The Editorial team, who help the journal's Academic Editors manage the review process.

The Language team, who help to edit the paper on the basis of (1) readability and clarity, of the content (2) compliance/consistency in using words/terms and punctuation; (3) correct the grammar. (4) Clarity of language  style.

The Production team, who convert the manuscript to a professionally typeset article and well-structured XML.

The Proofing team, who coordinate the proofing process.

The Editorial Quality Assurance team, who perform a final check before going to online.

The DOI team, who follow up with CrossRef to assign the DOI number to each article.

The technology team, who build and maintain the Journal’s webpage.

The APCs payable only when your manuscript is editorially accepted. Upon editorial acceptance of an article, the corresponding author will be notified about the publication fee.

Corresponding author need to arrange payment unless a waiver has been granted. We advise prompt payment of publication fee, as we are unable to publish accepted articles until payment has been received.

The fees to be paid following the acceptance of an article. The actual Article Processing Charges varies depending on the journal in which you wish to publish your article.

Payment can be made by any of the following methods

Payment can be made online using a secure payment gateways i.e. PayPal/SWIFT Transfer etc., as soon as the manuscript has been editorially accepted. We will we send a receipt by email once the payment has been processed.

Waiver Policy

The journal aims to encourage and enable authors from all countries to share their scientific knowledge with others and learn from the scientific knowledge of others. To remove financial constraints as a barrier to sharing and learning especially for authors from low income economies, we have formulated a waiver policy.

Requests should be made during the review process only, after acceptance waiver request will not be considered.  

Individual waiver requests from authors will be considered on a case-by-case basis. The amount of discount will depend on factors such as country of origin, position of the author in the institute and quality and originality of the work.

SvedbergOpen provides an automatic waiver of Article Processing Charges to authors based in any of the Low-income economy countries listed below. In order to apply for a waiver, please request one before submitting your manuscript by sending an email to waivers@svedberopen.com.