Payments

Fast-Track

Price: 1100.00 (USD)

OPTIONAL PAYMENT

The Fast-Track is a review process and editorial workflow to authors seeking a very fast editorial decision and rapid publication at a higher submission fee to compensate for the extreme fast referees and editorial work.

For the Fast-Track users:

• the guaranteed response time (report and decision letter) is 21 days;
• the guaranteed issue for publication (in case of manuscript acceptance) is a nearest upcoming issue of the journal.

If you choose “Fast-Track” for your manuscript the submission fee is US$1100.

Please note that the “Fast-Track” option does not guarantee a positive review and acceptance of a manuscript itself. It only brings an extremely fast time schedule for manuscript processing through all editorial procedures. Thus, if the manuscript receives negative reviews, and if the editorial board will take the side of reviewers, the manuscript will be rejected. If the reviewers recommend revisions of the manuscript, the final decision on publication will be only after revised manuscript submission and the second round of review.

The Fast-Track option does not exclude the necessary for correct manuscript formatting. Please ensure that the manuscript corresponds to the formatting guidelines for this journal (you can find them on the Author Guidelines page).
If the manuscript does not correspond to Author Guidelines it will be sent back for correction. In this case the Fast Track timer will start after receiving the correct variant.

To activate the Fast-Track option, the submitting author should make payment from his/her personal account on the journal's website after submitting an article.

In contrast to the Fast-Track option authors can use the standard protocol for manuscript selection in our journal (review and editorial workflow). The standard time for review and editorial workflow are described in detail on the PeerReview page. You can also find the statistical info about the editorial workflow on the STAT page.

Optional Open Access

Price: 500.00 (USD)

OPTIONAL PAYMENT (this will NOT abrogate the Peer-Review decesion-based article selection)

Through optional Immediate Open Access, authors of accepted papers are given the option of paying an open access publication charge to make their paper freely available online immediately via the journal website, meaning that readers will not need a journal subscription to view open access content. If an author does not choose to pay the open access publication charge, their paper will be published in the normal manner, and will not be made freely available online immediately.

Therefore there will be a mixture of non-open access and open access papers within each journal issue. Open access articles will be clearly indicated on the journal's online contents page. In order to view the non-open access content, a current subscription to the journal will be required. Online, print and combined subscription options will continue to be available to institutions.

Waiver policy

Waiver policy

An author's team can apply to the Editor-in-Chief for the paid optionally services cancellation or for a discount (there is a special field at the first and last stage of manuscript submission online).

The Editorial Board will accept the corresponding appeals from the authors' teams, which include:

• members of the editorial board and permanent peer-reviewers of the journal;
• PhD-students and post-docs.

The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right, at her own discretion, to waive the paid optionally service fee if there is an obvious scientific value (even in cases when the author's team does not include the above-mentioned persons).

Issue Purchase

Readers without a subscription may still purchase individual issues. The following payment options and fees are available.

Access for an Issue: 340.00 (USD)

You can purchase the access for all articles published in one issue. Access to articles will be provide for an unlimited time.

Access to issue allows you to read, download and print full text (PDF and HTML) of all articles, but does not allow to distribute, copy or reproduce articles materials until the end of the embargo period (3 years) since the publication of the article).

Article Purchase

Readers without a subscription may still purchase individual articles. The following payment options and fees are available.

Access for an Article: 50.00 (USD)

You can purchase the access for the article to read, download and print its fulltext (PDF, HTML). Access to article will be provide for an unlimited time.

Purchased access does not allow to distribute, copy or reproduce article's materials until the end of the embargo period (3 years) since the publication of the article).

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