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Article Processing Charges & waiver Policies

The charge

As an Open Access title, publishing an article in this journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) that will be billed to the submitting author following acceptance. Apart from this Article Processing Charge there are no other hidden fees for publication. The Article Processing Charge for the journal is $1100.

No APC is payable by authors for qualifying articles under the SCOAP3, as detailed below.

SCOAP³ qualifying articles

Physics Tomorrow Letters Publishing LTD. All journals participates in SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics). Under this arrangement CERN, on behalf of over 3,000 partners across 44 countries, pay the required Article Processing Charge for qualifying articles. As such, no payment is requested from the authors.

In order to qualify, articles must be deposited in the arXiv preprint server prior to publication, with a high energy physics subject area as the primary category, either Experiment (hep-ex), Lattice (hep-lat), Phenomenology (hep-ph), or Theory (hep-th).

As well as on https://www.wikipt.org/, all articles also appear in the SCOAP3 repository for further distribution.

Value Added Tax

Physics Tomorrow Letters Publishing LTD. is based in the United Kingdom and must charge a 10% Value Added Tax (VAT) on qualifying transactions. Where applicable, the VAT will be in addition to the APC fees indicated above. UK VAT applies when we supply services to individuals or organizations based in the UK or to non-VAT registered individuals or organizations within the EU. Transactions with VAT-registered individuals or organizations based outside the UK but within the EU are outside the scope of UK VAT. All transactions with customers outside of the EU are also outside the scope of UK VAT.

Refund policy

Once an article has been accepted for publication, any Article Processing Charge on the article become due. The submitting author assumes responsibility for the Article Processing Charge, and Physics Tomorrow Letters Publishing LTD. will not issue refunds of any kind.

Waivers

Physics Tomorrow Letters Publishing LTD. operates a transparent waiver policy help support researchers who are unable to meet some or all of the cost associated with publishing open access.

Article processing charge waiver policy

All of Physics Tomorrow Letters Publishing LTD. journals are fully open access and require article processing charges (APCs) to be paid following acceptance. To help support researchers who are unable to meet some or all of the costs associated with publishing open access, Hindawi operates a transparent waiver policy.

As a partner of Research4Life, our waiver policy adheres to Research4Life’s best practice guidelines for waiver policies – ensuring researchers from low-to-middle income countries can easily understand what automatic support for article processing charges is available to them.

Qualifying for a waiver

To help support researchers in low-to-middle income countries, Physics Tomorrow Letters Publishing LTD. automatically provide full and partial waivers of article processing charges for manuscripts based on the corresponding author's listed affiliation. Authors do not need to request these waivers, they will be applied at submission.

Our waiver policy follows a two tier approach:

Waiver requests outside of these two tiers will not be considered.

Countries eligible for a full (100%) waiver

Physics Tomorrow Letters Publishing LTD. provides an automatic 100% waiver for article processing charges on manuscripts where the corresponding author is based in any of the countries listed below. Please contact head.editor@wikipt.org if you have any questions in regard to this.

  • Afghanistan

  • Angola

  • Bangladesh

  • Belize

  • Benin

  • Bhutan

  • Burkina Faso

  • Burundi

  • Cabo Verde

  • Cambodia

  • Cameroon

  • Central African Republic

  • Chad

  • Comoros

  • Congo

  • Cook Islands

  • Côte d’Ivoire

  • Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • Djibouti

  • Dominica

  • Equatorial Guinea

  • Eritrea

  • Eswatini

  • Ethiopia

  • Gambia

  • Ghana

  • Grenada

  • Guinea

  • Guinea-Bissau

  • Guyana

  • Haiti

  • Kenya

  • Kiribati

  • Kyrgyzstan

  • Lao People’s Democratic Republic

  • Lebanon

  • Lesotho

  • Liberia

  • Madagascar

  • Malawi

  • Maldives

  • Mali

  • Marshall Islands

  • Mauritania

  • Micronesia (Federated States of)

  • Mozambique

  • Myanmar

  • Nauru

  • Nepal

  • Nicaragua

  • Niger

  • Niue

  • Palau

  • Papua New Guinea

  • Republic of Moldova

  • Rwanda

  • Saint Helena

  • Saint Lucia

  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

  • Samoa

  • Sao Tome and Principe

  • Senegal

  • Sierra Leone

  • Solomon Islands

  • Somalia

  • South Sudan

  • Sudan

  • Suriname

  • Syrian Arab Republic

  • Tajikistan

  • Timor-Leste

  • Togo

  • Tokelau

  • Tonga

  • Tuvalu

  • Uganda

  • Ukraine

  • United Republic of Tanzania

  • Vanuatu

  • Yemen

  • Zambia

  • Zimbabwe

Countries eligible for a partial (50%) waiver

Physics Tomorrow Letters Publishing LTD. provides an automatic 50% waiver for article processing charges on manuscripts where the corresponding author is based in any of the countries listed below. Please contact head.editor@wikipt.org if you have any questions in regard to this.

  • Albania

  • Algeria

  • Antigua and Barbuda

  • Armenia

  • Azerbaijan

  • Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Botswana

  • Colombia

  • Ecuador

  • Egypt

  • El Salvador

  • Fiji

  • Gabon

  • Georgia

  • Guatemala

  • Guyana

  • Honduras

  • Iraq

  • Jamaica

  • Jordan

  • Kosovo

  • Libya

  • Mauritius

  • Mongolia

  • Montenegro

  • Morocco

  • Namibia

  • Nigeria

  • North Macedonia

  • Pakistan

  • Paraguay

  • Peru

  • Saint Kitts and Nevis

  • Serbia

  • Seychelles

  • Sri Lanka

  • Tunisia

  • Uzbekistan

  • Venezuela

  • Viet Nam

  • West Bank and Gaza Strip

Please note that only one article processing charge waiver can be applied to each submitted manuscript.

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