Our journals are non-paid journals and we do not charge any fees for submission
or acceptance or publications of manuscripts in all our journals. Routine review
takes about 60 days from date of submission without charging any payment.
Earlier we observed that many authors requested us for fast review and fast publication
for some reason or other. We found that many times their reasons were not valid
and they adopted false practices very often.
To avoid this, we have started charging for fast track or fast publication so that
only people in need or emergency apply to us. Charging only for fast track review
or publication does not make us paid journals. Ours are non-paid journals and we
do not charge any fees. Since we receive a large number of manuscripts, therefore
we have a long queue and publication takes 6 to 8 months in normal course without
any charges.
Many times, authors feel that their manuscripts should be reviewed early or should
be published earlier because of either thesis submission or thesis interview or
promotion of authors or interviews of authors and so on.
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Fast Track Review
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Fast Track Publication
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Fast Track Review and Publication
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For Indian authors residing in India
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Rs. 4000/-
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Rs. 10000/-
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Rs. 12000/-
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For International authors
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US $ 400
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US $ 600
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US $ 900
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Fast track review does not mean acceptance of manuscript. Your manuscript may be
accepted or may be rejected. On rejection there is no refund at all. Fast track
review takes 30 days from date of payment and normal track review takes 60 days
from date of submission of manuscripts.
Fast track publication takes 2-3 months for publication from date of acceptance
of manuscript. Normal publication takes 6-8 months for publication from date of
acceptance of manuscript as we have a long queue.
Paying for early review and early publication together does not guarantee for acceptance
of manuscript. If your manuscript gets rejected, then we will refund Rs. 8000/-
to Indian authors after deducting Rs. 4000/- for review charges (International authors
will be paid US $ 500 after deducting review charges US $ 400 if manuscript is rejected
by experts).
Those authors who are always in need of fast track review, should become our fellow
members by paying fellow membership only once in life time and the facility of fast
track review will be a permanent feature for them.
Withdrawal Policy
Authors wish to withdraw their manuscripts:
(i) for any alteration or addition
(ii) review or publication process getting delayed at our end
(iii) if their manuscripts have been published in other journals and they kept us
in dark that manuscripts have been submitted to our journals only (Authors should
strictly follow the rule that manuscripts should be submitted only to one journal)
(iv) if their manuscripts have been rejected by us
(v) any other reason
In all such cases, our policy is that authors will be allowed to withdraw only when
their manuscripts have been rejected by us and then all copyright will be of authors.
If authors withdraw without our permission, then we will inform to their university
as it is illegal and unethical.
If authors request us for withdrawal except for reason (iv), then we can allow them
to withdraw on payment of Rs. 5000/- total for Indians and US $ 300 total for International
authors. We are taking these payments because we pay to reviewers as review process
starts on the next day of submission of manuscript. Many times authors inform of
withdrawal when they have received the acceptance or the manuscript is on the final
stage of publication which is very wrong and therefore authors should pay withdrawal
fees otherwise we will lodge a complaint to their university.
Change in the names/numbers of authors and their affiliations
Many times, corresponding author requests us to add or delete the names of authors
at the last moment, then names of the authors can be deleted only after our permission.
If authors are to be added at the last moment, then we have decided that we can
allow addition of authors only when newly added authors become annual or fellow
members of WRA.
Similarly, authors ask for change in affiliations at the last moment because their
positions have changed or they have been transferred some other place. The place
of research work is different from the place of job and if authors wish to include
the new place, then they are advised to be our annual or fellow member. Here institutes
can also become our annual member or fellow member in place of authors to give advantage
of publication to the institute.
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