A1: To establish whether your paper is suitable for the KIHSS journal, go to the website of the journal concerned, and then click on the "About the Journal" "Aims and Scope"  button to display the scope of the journal.

A2: All papers must be submitted through email or our online Paper Submission System, in which the paper status can easily be tracked. All figures and tables should be combined with the text as a single MS Word or PDF for submission. A new user should apply for a new group of Username & Password to submit. 

A3: You are suggested to format your manuscript according to our standard template. However, if you do not know how to do it, please just prepare your manuscript as required by the Guideline. Papers should be submitted to us through our Paper Submission System in MS Word or PDF version.

A4: Papers in MS Word or PDF is the format for submitting your paper to our Paper Submission System.

A5: No, Quality is the most important criteria for the acceptance of a paper. However, for the benefit of peer-reviewers and readers papers should be as concise as possible.

A7: You will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail as soon as you have uploaded the paper successfully. Your paper will then be checked and forwarded to the editors who will start the preliminary review. If there are any problems with your uploaded manuscript you will be contacted by the editors.

A8: Authors are welcome to submit a covering letter with the manuscript, for the Editors’ reference. Should you wish to provide one, please briefly summarise your manuscript, its findings, major themes, relevant discussion points and any disclosures including conflicts of interest the Editor(s) should be aware of.

A1: We will try to publish your paper as early as possible, but the time between acceptance and the creation of the full text version depends on how quickly you provide your final version. Normally, it will appear online around 2 weeks after all the publication procedures are completed.

A1: Yes. All KIHSS journals are made freely available online, we guarantee that no university library or individual reader will ever have to buy a subscription or buy access through pay-per-view fees to access the papers published in KIHSS journals. In order to cover the costs of providing and maintaining a publication infrastructure, managing the journals, and processing the papers through peer-review and the editorial procedure, the journal charges a publication fee which is normally covered by the author's institution or research funds. The publication fee is required to be paid upon acceptance of an article for publication. KIHSS grants discounts on publication fees for authors of Lower- or Middle-Income Countries.

KIHSS Advisory Board members: Our advisory board receive a 50% discount.

KIHSS reviewers: All reviewers receive a 50% discount on one article submitted within the ensuing 12 months.

Discounts cannot be combined to cover the fee for a single article. If authors on an article are eligible for various individual discounts, the largest discount is applied.

To help support researchers in low-to-middle income countries, all KIHSS journals 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.

       1)corresponding authors with primary affiliations based in countries defined by the World Bank as Low-Income Economies, who can apply for a 100% APC waiver.

       2)corresponding authors with primary affiliations based in countries defined by the World Bank as Lower-Middle-Income Economies, who can apply for a 50% discount on the normal APC. 

KIHSS is committed to providing transparency where possible to demonstrate the services and value we provide for authors. 

A2: Charges are payable once the article has been accepted for publishing (i.e. following successful completion of our pre-publication checks). An invoice will be sent upon acceptance and must be paid within 15 days of the final invoice date.

 

A3: You can make an APC payment via Paypal, Alipay, Bank Transfer, credit card. You can also ask the editorial assistant for any problems.

A4: Please notify and send your payment voucher via e-mail to the Editorial Assistant after your payment. The Editorial Assistant shall email you a confirmation letter after receiving the payment.

A1: ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. It provides a persistent identifier for humans, similar to that created for content-related entities on digital networks by digital object identifiers (DOIs). The process of getting an ORCID iD is quick, easy and incurs no cost. 

A2: ORCID allows identification beyond names. Globally, names can be very common, they can change, they can be transliterated into other alphabets and so reliably linking researchers with their research and organizations can be difficult - this is solved through a unique ORCID iD.

An ORCID iD also allows you to keep a constantly updated digital curriculum vitae. Individuals decide to register, which research activities to connect to their ID, which organizations to allow access, what information to make publicly available, what to share with trusted parties, and what to keep private. Individuals can control their profiles and can change these settings and permissions at any time.