PUBLICATION FEE & WAIVER POLICY
Processing charges are to be paid when the "Section Editor" approves the manuscript for systematic review after submission.
Processing Charges: PKR 7,000/- per manuscript (Non-Refundable)
Publication Charges: PKR 28,000/- per manuscript
To help support researchers (Particularly Ph.D. Scholars) who are unable to meet some or all of the costs associated with publishing considered for waiver policy if he/she has submitted a high-quality research article subject to the approval by a relevant subject editor.
Requests will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Waiver requests are assessed and granted by the Publisher, not the Editor or editorial board, to ensure editorial independence.
To encourage high-quality research and international collaboration, NICE Research Journal is aimed at encouraging researchers by giving APC wavier as per the given policy below:
- A 20% discount is offered to authors who have co-author containing 500 plus Google Scholar or 250 Web of Science citations.
- A 15% discount is offered to authors who have a first or second author from a developed country.
- A 10% discount is offered to authors who are faculty members as Associate or Full Professor in Pakistani High Education Institutions.
- A 5% discount offered to MS & PHD students doing complex and extra-novel research.
- Reviewers of this or reviewer of international journal are eligible for 20% discount.
- Authors from low-income backgrounds (Pakistan) are eligible for special discount by giving undertaking of their low income with complex and novel research model.
The corresponding author should submit a waiver request to the email address editor.jfme@newports.edu.pk at the time of manuscript submission.
