Author Fees and Article Processing Charge

Transparent Author Fees Policy

Economics, Business and Management Science Journal (EBMSJ) (Online ISSN: 2775-3794) is an open-access journal committed to complete financial transparency. All published articles are immediately available online for free reading and downloading under a CC BY 4.0 license without subscription barriers.

1. Fee Schedule

Fee Category Amount Description
Article Submission Fee IDR 0 (FREE) No charge for manuscript submission, initial editorial screening, Turnitin similarity check, or double-blind peer review.
Article Processing Charge (APC) / Publication Fee IDR 500,000 Payable only after the manuscript has passed double-blind peer review and is formally accepted for publication. Covers professional layout editing, PDF galley production, Crossref DOI registration (10.34007/ebmsj), OJS hosting, and long-term digital archiving (Garuda/LOCKSS).
Fast-Track Review Fee Not Applicable (None) EBMSJ does not offer paid fast-track peer review; all submissions undergo the same rigorous evaluation process.

2. Payment Procedure

Payment instructions and official invoice details are sent by the Editorial Office to the Corresponding Author only after an official Letter of Acceptance (LoA) has been issued. Authors should never make any payment prior to receiving a formal acceptance notification from the Editor-in-Chief.

3. APC Waiver and Discount Policy

To ensure that financial limitations never prevent the publication of high-quality economic and business research, EBMSJ offers partial or full APC waivers (up to 100%) for:

  • Unfunded student researchers or early-career scholars from low-income or developing economies;
  • International collaborative manuscripts involving authors from multiple countries;
  • Invited thematic review papers of exceptional scholarly impact.

Waiver requests must be submitted by the Corresponding Author to mahesainstitute@gmail.com at the time of initial manuscript submission and are evaluated independently of the peer-review process.