Article Processing Charge

All articles published in Decision Making: Applications in Management and Engineering (ISSN 2560-6018) are published in full open access.

An article processing charge (APC) of GBP 2,500 applies to papers where the corresponding author is based in Europe, after acceptance following peer review. For all other authors, an APC of GBP 3,500 applies. These charges cover the costs of peer review, copyediting, typesetting, long-term archiving, and journal management.

Authors pay a one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) to cover the costs of peer review administration and management, professional production of articles in PDF and other formats, and dissemination of published papers in various venues, in addition to other publishing functions. A waiver policy is not applicable. There are no charges for rejected articles, no submission charges, and no surcharges based on the length of an article, figures, or supplementary data. Some items (Editorials, Corrections, Addendums, Retractions, Comments, etc.) are published free of charge.

When submitting an article to Decision Making: Applications in Management and Engineering journal, the submitting author must agree to pay the publication charge. After acceptance the article will enter the production cycle and the author will be asked to pay the publication charge for the journal. When final formatting corrections are made and the author approves their article for publication, payment of the publication charge must be received before the article will be published online. The submitting author assumes responsibility for the article processing charge, and the journal will not issue refunds of any kind.