JOURNAL FINANCES
The Journal of Global Surgery (ONE) is proud to transparently publish its financial model to determine the ethical publishing cost required to publish one peer reviewed article on the platform. This figure is determined by two principle calculations: the fixed running costs of the platform per article (for example annual web server fees, DOI registration), and the indivudalised stipend payments that each journal distributes to its volunteer staff to administrate, edit and review manuscripts. Each journal may set its own stipend value to the editors, peer reviewers and administrators that support the journal’s activities.
Ultimately, the final article price tag will be known as the community article processing fee (CAPC). Once the article is officially published, the CAPC price tag can be paid in full by anyone (for example the authors, an institution, a philanthropist), or the article fee can be community crowd funded, where any individual can contribute to the CAPC to reduce the price tag for everyone else. Anyone contributing as little as $0.10 will have instant early access to the article, ensuring that even if the article remains locked, anyone in the world will have the opportunity for instant, affordable access to the article. And of course, once the CAPC has been paid in full, the entire community will have open access to the article with no further costs.
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PLATFORM COST PER ARTICLE1 |
ARTICLE STIPENDS2 |
COMMUNITY ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGE |
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$16 |
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$60 |
= |
$76 |
| Description | Cost ($) |
| Stipend made to peer reviewer for one peer review Note: This is the amount in dollars paid to one peer reviewer, irrespective of whether article is accepted or rejected. *Assumption is that one article will have two independent peer reviews |
10 |
| Stipend made to editor per article undergoing active peer review Note: This is the amount in dollars paid to the editor, irrespective of whether article is accepted or rejected. |
10 |
| Stipend made for administration and type setting per accepted article Using our platform, the automated typesetting process is extremely efficient with instant publication options |
15 |
| Bitcoin Cash payment given to authors to allow them instant access to their own article. | 2 |
| Final journal specific running costs based on manuscript acceptance rate of 70%* *based on estimation |
60 |
Figures last updated: July 27, 2021 at 7:10 pm