Publication Pricing

Article publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors to make a work available open access in either an open access journal or hybrid journal. This fee is usually paid by an author's institution or research funder's rather than by the author themselves.
Peer review in an ethical part of scientific community in the publishing field, where it guarantees the validity of the manuscript. In this the reviewers are the experts who volunteer their time to help improve the manuscripts they review. Hence, Phronesis DOES NOT charge any Processing Fee; it charges only the Publication Fee to maintain the article in two different formats such as HTML and PDF for future reference purposes for years together.

Note: For the Inaugural Issue we will charge only 201USD for any country and any type of article which is till end of September, 2021. We are planning to release the Inaugural Issue at the end of October, 2021. These charges (201USD) are applicable only for Inaugural Issue but not for Regular Issues. Regular Issue charges are given in the below table. The time might be extended for few journals based on the requests received to the Editorial Office.

Why an author needs to pay to publish?
Open access has increased enormously in scientific community over the past decade, but still majority of scholarly journals require paid subscriptions for access to their content. Particularly, most of the subscription-based journals (produced by profit publishers) derive all of their revenue from subscription charges. As a result, authors in just about any field of scholarship will have numerous venues in which they can publish free.
However, for decades, authors are willing to pay publication fees (some journals called article processing charges or APCs) for open access. Some authors do so because to support the principles of open access publishing and to spread their research work all around the Globe. Beyond these, there are additional points that are more important: prestige and readership.

Prestige: Here comes the Peer Review System, where the majority of Open Access Journals serves to scrutiny the novelty, originality, validity, significance and mainly quality of publications. Most of the Researchers / Scientists do get the funding resource where some part of it will utilized for these charges.

Readership: To increase their noteworthiness in the scholarly thought, one needs to read widely by one's peers. For this, most of the researchers opt for top-tier Journals for readership and also the Low-tier Journals on recommendation.

Article Publication Fee: AJMH requires support from an author's research budget, or institution funds as Article Processing Charges (APC) in order to meet rigorous academic standards, articles needs graphics, formatting, and the editing services and to cover the expenses of the entire Peer Review System, Journal Development, Online Hosting and Permanent Archiving of the Article submitted to us.
The publication fee is calculated by using the below Fee Table, which is based on the World Bank income levels.

Refund Policy: AJMH will not offer any refunds once articles have been published/ withdrawn/ retracted.

AJMH Waivers Policy: If you like to publish your article in one of our Journals, but if you genuinely cannot afford towards the publication fee, the corresponding author along with Co-authors needs to submit a Waiver Request for partial or full waiver, after acceptance of manuscript. Requests will be assessed and will go through on a case-by-case basis and finally based on the priority for partial and full waivers will be given to authors. This is based on the countries of the authors who reside in. The list of the countries for income levels are followed according to World Bank income levels.

Waivers request are assessed and considered by Phronesis Management and Accounts Department, Editor-in-Chief or Editorial Board members are not at all related to this policy.

Note: The ability to pay does not affect the Peer review process of the article/ its quality.