Open Access Publishing: All Authors, Young Researchers, and PhD Students Are Welcome to Publish with Us without Any Publication Fees
Open Access (OA) publishing is a revolution in the way academics can share knowledge without restriction to published research, creating greater appreciation for knowledge. With more and more academics embracing the principles of OA, our journal has made an important move to ensure that all publication fees are waived for all authors, including young researchers and PhD students. This initiative ensures high-quality research can be freely shared and accessed without financial barriers to promote equity and inclusivity in scholarly publishing.

Understanding Open Access without Charges
OA publishing ensures that all research articles are freely available for anyone, anywhere, breaking down traditional barriers to knowledge dissemination. Normally, Article Processing Charges (APCs) are charged to the author or research funder to cover the expenses involved in ensuring the article undergoes peer review, editing, publishing, and long-term archiving, which is important to keep the article accessible and citable forever. Without charging APCs, our journal gives equal opportunities to all researchers—established scholars, early-career academics, and doctoral candidates—who can submit papers without the risk of financial burdens.

Commitment to Equity and Excellence
In support of the global research community, we have decided to waive the publication fee. Ensuring that cost is never a barrier to publication allows us to provide an inclusive platform where all authors—regardless of their career stage or financial resources—can share their work. It also supports our commitment to high-quality academic outputs and rigorous peer-review standards while working to achieve equity in scholarly communication.

Benefits to Authors
With our journal, authors are in a position to share their work with a wider international audience for no charge at all. This model with no article fees allows for maximum exposure and impact for researchers' output, without incurring any kind of financial burden as part of an OA publishing scheme. It proves particularly useful for young researchers and PhD candidates who, being unencumbered with having to incur costly charges in connection with publishing papers, are empowered to make greater contributions in their respective lines of inquiry.

Encouraging Ethical and Targeted Publishing
As much as we do not charge any fees for our publishing services, we encourage authors to submit only work falling squarely within their areas of expertise and rigorously adhering to the highest academic and ethical standards. By placing this emphasis on relevance and quality, we can continue to regard our journal as one in which new and influential knowledge is being communicated to its audience.

We thereby waive the APCs for all authors in our journal, including young researchers and PhD students. Let us join our forces to increase knowledge sharing among the international scientific community, advance scholarship, and promote collaboration within and across the disciplines.