Article Publication Charges (APC)

JSMCentral is an independent, international, open access, peer reviewed journal. We receive no support from Open Access funds or Third Party. We follow Author pay/Gold Open Access model to make a work available on open access. They are the most common funding support for journals publishing open access articles.

Any Article published with us is payable when your article is published and is error-free. The Article Processing Charges cover a lot of internal process such as pre-publishing quality check, plagiarism check, online web services for permanent archiving of your published articles, Editorials, Additions, Handling Staff, web conversions, processing charges, etc.) However we do not charge for submission fee, charges based on multiple figures, multiple tables, extension of word limits, supplementary data, rejected articles, etc.

To describe in detail APC Includes:

1. Pre-Processing: Each submitted manuscript undergoes quality check via paid software for plagiarism check, journal handling staff reviewing any missing aspects in the manuscript.
2. Processing: Editorial/External review assignments to provide accurate expert opinions for your submitted article, managing with in-house staff for the other editorial process, and other administrative works included.
3. Article Production: Basic language editing, typesetting, proof reading and production in online compatible PDF formats, web maintenance for permanent archiving of your article.
4. Post Production Corrections: We believe quality is very important and thus we do corrections multiple times to produce error free publications.
5. Web Hosting and Dissemination of your Work: website hosting, disseminating your work on our social media for higher visibility upon request.
6. Discounts & Waiver request form: We never count authors by charges. We are very happy if your article received merit comments with at-least one accepts as it is recommendation to provide reasonable discounts. Anyhow, we request author to raise discount options by filling the discount waiver form. However the decision of discounts/waivers lies with the in-house Incharge. Please be noted that waivers are supported only an extent and full waivers are not acceptable as each manuscript involves a cost to the publishing house as well.

Reprint Request: Reproducing Journal Articles in hard copy to disseminate among your well known network improve the scope of citations. At JSMCentral, Reprint requests are available both in color or black and white format to help you educate and disseminate your research work effectively. However reprint requests are accepted with additional charges and minimum order of 100 copies. For more information on this, kindly email to submissions@jsmcentral.org

Guidelines before you submit revision/ revised manuscript:

It is important to note that you address every comment given by the referee. These comments help your manuscript gain improvement in scientific standards. Please understand that the reviewers or editors have limited time and thus you need to either highlight or color the changes in the final revisions to make the difference where the changes have been made. Also make sure you address all the response to review comments in different document which will be easy for the reviewers or editors to track the changes.