JAIKE is an open-access scientific journal. Our article publishing charge (APC) covers the validation and production of each work into its final form, including: financial support for journal editorial offices and boards, submission and peer review management, editorial development, ethical validation and plagiarism checking, content enrichment (copyediting, typesetting, data conversion and normalization), legal deposit, abstracting and indexing. The charge also covers dissemination and the curation and display of metrics to help researchers understand the impact and reach of their work.
As In charge of the editorial management and Journal publications, one of our primary roles is to ensure the scholarly record is accurately maintained to allow future researchers to build on today’s discoveries. With that in mind, surplus from the charge is invested in infrastructure and organizations that support scholarly communication. These organizations include registration services and standards bodies, in particular, those that guarantee the long-term preservation of the author’s work and its online access free of charge.
The APC does not consider the voluntary efforts of reviewers who typically donate their unremunerated time as a part of career development, or to gain early sight of the latest research. The administration cost of managing the peer review process, however, is not without cost. Publishers invest time, resourcing, and cost in managing the process as well as the systems that support it, including reviewer recognition services. Where reviewers receive some form of compensation for their time, this is reflected in the APC or relevant fee, for example the accelerated publication option offered to select authors.
The Management company in cooperation with Managing Editor of JAIKE has determined a formula for the author submission fees (APC) of each accepted manuscript from the authors.
The determination of author submission fees for a manuscript will be based on a simple calculation as follows:
Submission Fees (or APC Charges) = (Total Number of Raw Manuscript Pages of texts) x $Rate per Text-Page + (Number of Figures and Tables) * Illustration $Rate.
The submission fee is based on the size of the final manuscript submitted after acceptance and duly revised and reformatted using the following guidelines.
When submitting a final manuscript, its content must be prepared using the Formatting Requirements outlined therein
The final content is written and revised in Microsoft Word, formatted double-spaced throughout, using Times New Roman 12-point font size. A single manuscript page is a 8-1/2 in. by 11 in. letter size paper, with 1 inch margins all around.
Tables and figures are inserted at the point of its first occurrence in the body of the article. Each Figure and table are contained on its own (8-1/2 in. by 11 in) page and identified with a unique Figure or Table caption.
For APC calculation purposes, each illustration or table submitted along with the manuscript is counted as a page. For consistency across various submissions, each part of a multi-part Table or Figure is also counted as a single page.
The Text and Illustration Rates are determined at the beginning of each year to partially offset our management and publication costs of the JAIKE Journal. For the first four inaugural issues, the APC charge is fixed at $100 per page. If APC authors desire to publish images and figures in color, it will be charged double its price, meaning two times the B&W figure rate.
It has been a problem for every editor to decide on a single fair and just means of measuring the length (size) of a manuscript submission. Based on the recommendations from various OA Journals’ editors, we have adopted a criterion (based on Text, Figures and Tables), which we believe is easy to count, measure and verify.
If I we apply the same verifiable criteria to every formatted submission, it is clearly fair, clean and serves the purpose of controlling the intended quality and containing the cost of publications. Typesetting figures and tables are most time-consuming than plain text.
Although we have no strict threshold requirement, we recommend that authors attempt to minimize the size of submitted files. Very large files (more than 15 megabytes) still present a problem for some mailers and printers. Submitted papers should also conform with the formatting requirements described below.