Article Processing Charges

The International Journal of Didactical Studies (IJODS) is a fully Gold Open Access journal. All articles published in the journal are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, without subscription fees or access restrictions for readers or institutions.

To support the administrative and technical operation of the editorial workflow, peer-review infrastructure, website maintenance, digital preservation, metadata management, and long-term accessibility of published content, IJODS applies an Article Processing Charge (APC) of USD 100.

The APC is requested only after a manuscript has successfully completed the peer-review process and has received a final acceptance decision. No payment is requested during submission, editorial screening, or peer review.

Editorial decisions are based solely on the scholarly quality, originality, methodological rigor, relevance, and integrity of submitted manuscripts. The payment, non-payment, waiver, or discount of an APC has no influence on editorial assessment, peer review, acceptance, or rejection.

IJODS does not charge submission fees or peer-review fees. 

IJODS does not charge page charges, color charges, or other mandatory publication fees in addition to the stated APC.

APC Waiver and Discount Policy

IJODS is committed to supporting equitable access to scholarly publishing. The journal provides APC waivers and discounts based on the current World Bank country income classification.

Authors whose corresponding author’s primary institutional affiliation is located in a country classified by the World Bank as a low-income economy are eligible for a 100% APC waiver. 

Authors whose corresponding author’s primary institutional affiliation is located in a country classified by the World Bank as a lower-middle-income economy are eligible for a 50% APC discount.

For authors who do not meet these criteria, the standard APC is USD 100.

Eligibility is determined using the corresponding author’s primary institutional affiliation declared at the time of initial manuscript submission and the World Bank country classification applicable at that time.

Waiver or discount requests should be submitted after the manuscript has received a final acceptance decision and before an invoice is issued. Requests are handled administratively and independently of the editorial and peer-review processes.

Eligible waiver and discount requests are subject only to verification of the stated institutional affiliation and applicable country classification. The availability or outcome of a waiver or discount request has no influence on editorial evaluation, peer review, acceptance, or rejection.

Information concerning copyright, licensing, authors’ rights, and reuse of published content is provided in the journal’s Open Access Policy and Author Guidelines. The APC arrangements described on this page constitute the journal’s current author-charge policy.