Published By
Faculty of Public Health
Universitas Muhammadiyah Palu
Palu, Central Sulawesi
Indonesia
Editorial Office → Indonesia
Article Processing Charges & Other Fees
Publishing Policy
Article Processing Charges & Other Fees
Horizon of Public Health Sciences (HoPHS) does not charge authors for submitting, reviewing, processing, or publishing scholarly manuscripts. The current Article Processing Charge (APC) is USD 0, and no mandatory author fee is imposed at any stage of the standard publication process.
USD 0 Article Processing Charge
USD 0 Submission Fee
USD 0 Peer-Review Fee
Not Applicable Waiver / Reduction
No payment is required for editorial consideration. Authors are not asked to pay in order for a manuscript to be sent for peer review, revised, accepted, or published under the journal's current fee policy.
Article Processing Charge
HoPHS currently charges no APC
The Article Processing Charge for all article types currently published by HoPHS is USD 0. Authors do not receive an APC invoice after acceptance and publication is not conditional on payment of a publication fee.
Current Author Cost
USD 0
No Article Processing Charge is payable by the author, author's institution, research funder, or another party on behalf of the author for standard publication in HoPHS.
Author Charges
Complete schedule of author fees
The following schedule identifies the standard fees that authors might reasonably expect to encounter during scholarly publishing and confirms the current HoPHS charge for each item.
Submission fee
USD 0
Editorial / technical processing fee
USD 0
Peer-review fee
USD 0
Article Processing Charge (APC)
USD 0
Page charge
USD 0
Colour figure / illustration charge
USD 0
Supplementary-material charge
USD 0
Mandatory language-editing charge imposed by HoPHS
USD 0
Article withdrawal fee
USD 0
What the APC Covers
Not applicable while APC remains USD 0
Because HoPHS does not currently charge an APC, there is no author-paid publication charge to allocate across editorial, production, hosting, archiving, metadata, or publication activities. Standard journal processing and publication do not generate a mandatory invoice to authors.
If HoPHS introduces an author charge in the future, the journal will publish the amount, currency, services covered, payment stage, applicable article types, waiver or discount conditions, and effective date transparently before the charge is applied.
Waivers & Reductions
No waiver application is required
A waiver or fee-reduction policy is currently not applicable because HoPHS charges no APC and no other mandatory author fee. All eligible authors receive the same zero-fee publication conditions regardless of country, institution, career stage, funding status, or ability to pay.
Authors should therefore not submit a waiver request under the current policy. No author is disadvantaged in editorial assessment because of an inability to pay a publication fee, since no such fee is charged.
Payment Stage
No payment request is issued
Under the current fee policy, HoPHS does not request author payment at submission, during technical screening, before or after peer review, during revision, after acceptance, at production, or after publication.
Submission · USD 0 Screening · USD 0 Peer Review · USD 0 Revision · USD 0 Acceptance · USD 0 Production · USD 0 Publication · USD 0
Editorial Independence
Editorial decisions are not financial decisions
Manuscripts are assessed according to scholarly relevance, scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, reporting standards, ethical integrity, and peer-review evidence. Editorial decisions are independent of an author's institution, funding status, country, or financial resources.
Optional External Services
Independently purchased services are not HoPHS publication fees
Authors may independently choose to obtain professional language editing, translation, statistical consultation, figure preparation, data-repository services, or other third-party assistance before or during manuscript preparation. Any such voluntary expense is separate from HoPHS and does not constitute a journal fee.
Purchase of an external service does not guarantee peer review, acceptance, priority handling, or publication. HoPHS does not require authors to purchase commercial editing or manuscript-preparation services as a condition of editorial consideration.
Withdrawal
HoPHS does not charge an article withdrawal fee
The current article withdrawal charge is USD 0. Authors who need to withdraw a manuscript should contact the editorial office and provide a clear reason for the request. Withdrawal remains subject to appropriate editorial documentation, particularly where publication-integrity concerns or duplicate submission may be involved.
Future Changes
Any future author fee will be disclosed before it applies
HoPHS may review its publishing model as the journal develops. If an APC or another mandatory author fee is introduced in the future, the journal will update this page and relevant author information before the new charge takes effect.
Any future fee policy should clearly identify the amount and currency, what the fee covers, when payment is requested, the submissions to which it applies, waiver or reduction conditions, and the effective date. Authors should not encounter undisclosed mandatory charges after submission.
HoPHS Author Fee Policy
Submit for free. Review for free. Publish for free.
Under the current HoPHS publishing model, authors pay no submission fee, peer-review fee, editorial-processing fee, Article Processing Charge, page charge, colour charge, supplementary-material charge, mandatory language-editing fee, or withdrawal fee. The total mandatory author charge for standard publication is USD 0.
