Why Does Clinics of Surgery Charge an APC?

Clinics of Surgery is an open-access journal. All articles that are accepted and published are made freely available online to readers without subscription or access fees.

To support this open-access publishing model, an Article Processing Charge (APC) is applied to accepted manuscripts. The APC helps cover the operational costs associated with the publication and long-term availability of scholarly articles.

The APC contributes toward:

• Editorial administration and manuscript processing
• Peer-review management and coordination
• Manuscript preparation and copyediting
• Typesetting and article formatting
• Figure and table preparation
• DOI registration and article metadata management
• Online hosting and maintenance of published articles
• Long-term digital preservation and accessibility
• Website and journal platform maintenance
• Publication administration and author support
• Indexing and metadata dissemination where applicable
• Maintaining the journal's open-access publishing infrastructure

The APC is charged only after a manuscript has been accepted for publication. Payment of an APC does not influence the editorial decision, peer-review outcome, or acceptance of a manuscript.

Article Processing Charges (APC)

Clinics of Surgery (ISSN 2638-1451) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal. To support editorial management, peer review, production, online hosting, and long-term accessibility of published articles, an Article Processing Charge (APC) is applicable to accepted manuscripts.

Important Information

• No submission fee is charged.
• The APC is payable only after the manuscript has been accepted for publication.
• Acceptance of a manuscript is based on editorial assessment and peer review and is not dependent on payment of the APC.
• The APC covers the costs associated with editorial processing, peer review administration, article production, online publication, and maintaining open access to the published article.
• Authors will receive an APC invoice or payment instructions after acceptance.
• APCs are quoted in USD. Applicable bank, payment-processing, or currency-conversion charges may be payable by the author.
• Authors should contact the editorial office before submission if they require clarification regarding APCs or eligibility for a waiver or reduction.

Waivers and Discounts

Clinics of Surgery may consider full or partial APC waivers or discounts in cases of demonstrated financial hardship or for authors from eligible countries, subject to the journal's applicable policy.

Authors who wish to request a waiver or discount should contact the editorial office before or at the time of submission. Waiver requests will not influence the editorial or peer-review decision.

APC Transparency

The applicable APC is determined by the manuscript type and is communicated clearly to the corresponding author. No publication fee is requested before editorial acceptance.

For questions regarding Article Processing Charges, please contact the editorial office.

Manuscript Withdrawal Policy and Charges

Authors may request withdrawal of a manuscript before publication by contacting the editorial office.

Withdrawal requests made before the peer-review process has substantially progressed will generally not incur a withdrawal charge.

However, if a manuscript is withdrawn after substantial editorial processing, peer review, revisions, acceptance, or production work has been completed, a withdrawal charge may apply to compensate for the editorial and administrative resources already invested in processing the manuscript.

The applicable withdrawal charge will be communicated to the corresponding author before payment is requested.

Withdrawal charges do not apply when withdrawal is requested because of an error attributable to the journal or when the journal itself decides to withdraw or reject the manuscript.

Authors should not submit the same manuscript to another journal while it is under consideration at Clinics of Surgery. If an author withdraws a manuscript without informing the editorial office and subsequently publishes the same work elsewhere, the journal reserves the right to take appropriate editorial action.