Article Processing Charges And Policies


Contusm Publications, a publishing group of international open-access peer-reviewed journals, requires Article Processing Charges that will be billed by the submitting author following the acceptance of a manuscript for publication. There is no submission fee. APCs are levied on the author of the manuscript being published. APC will not be refunded after the manuscript is published online.

The article processing fee for publication in Contusm Publication is $1040 USD.

This fee covers the following services:

  • Peer review process
  • Editing and proofreading
  • Formatting and typesetting
  • Online publication
  • Promotion and distribution

If you have any questions or need further information, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Who Can Request An APC Discount Or More?


Discounts to reduce Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open-access articles are available to:

  • Corresponding authors with primary affiliations based on countries defined by the World Bank as Low-Income Economies, Lower-Middle-Income Economies can apply for a discount on the normal APC when they publish in our open-access journals.

Please note that changes made to these lists by the World Bank each July.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information: contact@contusmpublications.com

Manuscript Removal Policy


The author may not want to publish his/her manuscript after submitting it to any journal of ContusM Publications. We do not charge a fee for terminating and removing an article from the journal if the author specifies it within a week. If an author wants to remove the manuscript after one week, he/she will be asked to pay a partial processing fee from the article process fee. This fee is charged by our publisher for using a variety of services during the processing of a manuscript. We request the authors to pay 30% of the original article processing fee in case of termination or removal of the manuscript after one week.

For any queries or discussions regarding the Manuscript Termination Fee/Article Processing Fee, please contact us: contact@contusmpublications.com