For Authors
• Overview
• AUCTORES Pledges to Authors and Readers
• Benefits of Open Access for Authors and Readers
• Language and Figures
• Funding of APCs and BPCs
• Discounts on APCs
• General Peer Review and the Editorial Procedure
• Editorial Decision and Revision
• Digital Preservation of AUCTORES Content
Overview
AUCTORES Pledges to Authors and Readers
AUCTORES’s Commitments to Authors and Readers
• Ensuring the publication of rigorously peer-reviewed manuscripts with strong scholarly impact.
• Providing a fast publication process—most manuscripts are published within 5–7 weeks of submission, provided no major revisions are required.
• Upholding a fully open access model, allowing readers to freely access all content published on our platform.
• Maintaining citation-tracked journals—AUCTORES works continually to secure timely inclusion and citation tracking for all journals in leading databases such as Scopus, Web of Science, PMC, PubMed, MEDLINE, and others.
Benefits of Open Access for Authors and Readers
• Research is freely available to everyone, with no subscription or paywall barriers.
• Articles are accessible immediately upon publication, with no embargo period.
• Authors retain full copyright ownership and are not required to sign copyright transfer agreements.
• Published material may be reused, provided proper attribution is given under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
Language and Figures
The article processing charge (APC) covers only minor English editing for accepted papers. Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts are written in clear, correct English and that all figures are of high quality prior to publication. Manuscripts with unclear language or poor-quality figures may face delays or even risk rejection. If substantial improvements to language or figures are needed, AUCTORES Author Services provides professional English Editing and Figure Editing support. These services can help enhance the clarity, accuracy, and overall impact of your work.
Funding of APCs and BPCs
Many funding agencies and institutions explicitly permit the use of research grants to cover article processing charges (APCs) and book processing charges (BPCs) for publishing open access articles and books. For more information on available APC and BPC funding options.
Discounts on APCs
Waivers may be granted at the publisher’s discretion and should be discussed with the Editorial Office at the time of submission. While editorial decisions are made independently of an author’s ability to pay processing charges, authors are encouraged to ensure in advance that they have sufficient funds to cover the full APC/BPC. AUCTORES also provides discount vouchers to selected reviewers. Please note that reviewer vouchers may be combined only with IOAP and affiliated society discounts. Authors affiliated with participating institutions receive an APC discount for any paper published in an AUCTORES journal. Only one IOAP discount may be applied per paper, though it may be combined with other eligible discounts, such as reviewer vouchers.
General Peer Review and the Editorial Procedure
All manuscripts published in our journals—whether research articles, review papers, invited submissions, or spontaneous submissions—undergo a strict and thorough peer-review process conducted by qualified experts. Upon submission, the Managing Editor conducts a technical pre-check
to assess the manuscript’s suitability. The Academic Editor is then notified and invited to perform an editorial pre-check. The Editorial Office coordinates the peer-review process, securing evaluations from at least two independent reviewers per manuscript. To promote transparency and keep authors informed, preliminary versions of the reviewer reports are made available through the SuSy platform. Authors can view the number of reports received and access the reviewer comments once the review process is complete. Because these preliminary reports have not yet been evaluated by an Academic Editor, authors are advised not to begin revisions until the full editorial assessment has been completed and official guidance is issued by the Editorial Office. Authors are expected to revise their manuscripts adequately—potentially undergoing a second round of peer review—before a final decision is made. The final decision rests with the Academic Editor, typically the Editor-in-Chief, an Editorial Board Member, or the Guest Editor of a Special Issue. Accepted manuscripts then proceed to copyediting and English editing.
Editorial Decision and Revision
All articles, reviews, and communications published in AUCTORES journals undergo a full peer-review process and receive at least two reviewer reports. At each stage, an in-house editor collaborates with an external Academic Editor to evaluate the manuscript and communicate
decisions to authors. Possible editorial decisions include:
• Accept in Present Form: The manuscript is accepted without requiring any further changes.
• Accept after Minor Revision: The manuscript will be accepted once the authors address the reviewers’ minor comments. Authors are given five days to complete these revisions.
• Reconsider after Major Revision: Acceptance depends on the quality and completeness of the revised manuscript. Authors must provide a detailed, point-by-point response, including justifications for any comments that cannot be addressed. Typically, up to two rounds of major revision are allowed. Authors are asked to resubmit the revised manuscript within ten days, after which it will be returned to the reviewers for additional evaluation.
• Reject and Encourage Resubmission: Manuscripts requiring substantial additional experiments or extensive revisions will be rejected. Authors may resubmit after completing the necessary improvements. Resubmitted manuscripts will receive a new manuscript ID but will remain linked to the original submission in the SuSy system. The editorial process will then continue as usual, and the same reviewers will typically be invited to evaluate the revised paper.
• Reject: Manuscripts containing significant errors or lacking original contribution will be rejected without an option for resubmission to the journal.