Editorial Quality Control
Structured pre review screening verifies scope fit, ethics declarations, and reporting readiness before peer assignment.
Article Processing Charges
Transparent APC Policy for Inflammation Research Publishing
APC decisions never influence editorial outcomes or peer review independence.
International Journal of Inflammation Research applies a transparent APC framework designed for scientific quality, predictable publication timelines, and broad open access visibility. Charges are activated only after acceptance. Authors receive clear invoice documentation, optional institutional billing support, and guidance on waiver pathways for eligible teams.
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What APCs Support at IJIR
APCs fund editorial operations that directly improve review consistency, metadata quality, and long term discoverability for inflammation research outputs.
Production and Metadata
Accepted manuscripts receive copyediting, citation checks, DOI assignment, and discoverability focused metadata packaging.
Open Access Distribution
Publication outputs remain freely accessible, improving interdisciplinary reach across immunology, rheumatology, and translational medicine audiences.
Current Article Processing Charge
The standard IJIR APC is USD 1200 per accepted article. Billing starts only after acceptance, and waiver or discount review can be requested before invoicing when funding constraints apply.
Current APCUSD 1200Per accepted manuscript
Standard APC
USD 1200 for each accepted manuscript.
Billing Trigger
Invoice is issued only after final editorial acceptance.
Support Options
For waiver or discount guidance, contact [email protected].
Cost Planning Without Editorial Compromise
Authors are encouraged to align funding and billing details early so production timelines remain stable after acceptance.
Invoice Timing
Invoices are issued only after final acceptance so editorial recommendations remain independent from financial processing. For this requirement, clear documentation reduces ambiguity in methodological interpretation and protects quality without adding unnecessary delay.
Institutional Billing
Teams can route APC documentation through grant administrators or institutional finance contacts to reduce payment delays. In this requirement, stronger reporting discipline prevents avoidable back and forth during technical clarification and helps keep reviewer feedback specific and actionable.
Waiver Consideration
Waiver requests are evaluated through a separate process focused on funding context, never on manuscript outcome. When this requirement is specified precisely, communication quality improves across authors, reviewers, and editors, and accepted manuscripts reach publication with fewer corrections.
Cost Predictability
Clear APC communication helps research groups plan publication cycles alongside conference, grant, and thesis milestones. Detailed treatment of this requirement gives reviewers a stable basis for evidence checks while preserving scientific transparency in the published record.
Submission Readiness
Complete declarations, funding notes, and authorship confirmation reduce administrative friction during final acceptance steps. Operational clarity in this requirement supports fair comparison across competing submissions while reinforcing trust in editorial independence and rigor.
Metadata Compliance
Accurate affiliation and funding metadata strengthen indexing quality and improve institutional tracking of published research outputs. A robust description of this requirement strengthens confidence in claims, limits, and endpoint mapping and supports predictable workflow timing for authors and editors.
Grant Reporting Support
IJIR can provide publication documentation requested by funders for reimbursement or post award accountability workflows. Well structured handling of this requirement helps editors triage scope and rigor faster while improving revision efficiency and production readiness.
Operational Continuity
Defining one billing coordinator per manuscript avoids communication gaps and protects production handoff speed. High quality framing of this requirement improves alignment between reviewer comments and revision priorities and shortens the path to a defensible final decision.
Ethics and Independence
Editors and reviewers assess novelty, rigor, and clinical relevance regardless of payment status or waiver eligibility. Consistent language around this requirement improves consistency across first round and re review decisions while maintaining fairness across different manuscript types.
Long Term Visibility
Well managed APC workflows accelerate release and help articles enter discovery systems faster after publication. A transparent approach to this requirement keeps decision rationale traceable at each handling stage and improves the reliability of downstream indexing signals.
Author Confidence
Transparent billing and predictable process controls improve trust in publication planning for multicenter research groups. For this requirement, clear documentation reduces ambiguity in methodological interpretation and protects quality without adding unnecessary delay.
Decision Traceability
Consistent scientific reporting, metadata precision, and communication discipline improve editorial efficiency and long term discoverability. In this requirement, stronger reporting discipline prevents avoidable back and forth during technical clarification and helps keep reviewer feedback specific and actionable.
Additional Practical Guidance for Article Processing Charges
The points below add operational detail for APC planning and publication budgeting, helping authors, reviewers, and editors keep decisions consistent from first screening to final publication.
Decision Readiness
Strong Decision Readiness practices in APC planning and publication budgeting make scientific claims easier to verify during peer review. Early adoption of this control strengthens communication quality between authors, reviewers, and editors and lowers the risk of post-acceptance corrections.
Revision Strategy
Consistent Revision Strategy standards across APC planning and publication budgeting reduce ambiguity when manuscripts move between handling stages. As a result, authors receive clearer guidance, editors close decisions with less rework, and final records remain stronger for indexing and citation use.
Metadata Accuracy
Documented Metadata Accuracy controls in APC planning and publication budgeting improve comparability across submissions and revision rounds. When teams apply this early, reviewer comments become more specific, revision requests are easier to action, and production handoff has fewer compliance surprises.
APC policy is a publication operations tool, not a scientific decision driver. Editorial independence remains non negotiable at every stage.
Teams that confirm funding workflow before acceptance usually publish faster and with fewer production interruptions.
Ready to Submit to IJIR
Choose your preferred submission route. For APC clarification, waiver questions, or institutional billing support, contact [email protected].
