Article Processing Charge (APC)
All articles published in the Journal of Computational and Cognitive Engineering (JCCE) are published in open access. To provide free access to readers and to cover the extensive operational costs of peer review management, copyediting, typesetting, long-term archiving, and journal infrastructure, an Article Processing Charge (APC) applies to papers accepted after rigorous peer review.
All authors are strongly encouraged to plan ahead regarding their structural institutional funding or personal ability to cover the entire standard APC and any applicable over-length page fees prior to concluding production pipelines.
Exempt Editorial Content Types:
Specific item selections including Editorials, Corrections, Addendums, Retractions, and Comments are systematically processed and published free of charge.
Sales Taxes and Regulatory Specifications
The prices quoted are exclusive of any applicable value-added tax (VAT), goods and services tax (GST), or other regional sales taxes. Where required by jurisdictional law, applicable taxes will be calculated at the point of sale and identified separately on invoices. Authors possessing a verified corporate VAT, GST, or tax identification number must provide this data profile when prompted during billing setup.
Waivers and Discounts List
To help support researchers who are genuinely unable to meet some or all of the costs associated with publishing open access, JCCE operates a transparent waiver policy. We provide an automatic 50% waiver on the article processing charges for manuscripts where the corresponding author is actively based in low-income or lower-middle-income countries defined by international monetary frameworks.
Refund Policy
- Double-Charging Protection: A full refund of the Article Processing Charge (APC) will be executed if external institutional funding is later confirmed and deployed for the identical research article.
- Non-Refundable Services: APCs are otherwise strictly non-refundable once formal publishing, typesetting, and deployment services have been provided.
- Retractions and Removal Audits: Retractions or structural removals are usually beyond the journal's control and do not reduce the overhead services already rendered. Consequently, no refunds will be made when articles are retracted due to author error, data fabrication, or ethical misconduct.