For authors

Publish with us

Three routes in — an article, a book, or the proceedings of your conference. All three run on the same commitments: a decision in weeks rather than seasons, reviewers who are paid for their reports, and a reason in writing whichever way it goes.

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Publish an article

Six peer-reviewed journals, each with its own scope statement and its own published metrics. Read the scope before you read anything else — scope, not quality, is the reason for most desk rejections here, and a scope rejection costs you five days with us and a whole season somewhere else.

Not sure which journal fits? Send an abstract to the managing editor and you will have a scope answer within five working days, before you format anything.

From submission to publication

1Desk screening — 5 daysScope, format and an iThenticate similarity check. You hear either way, with a reason.
2Peer review — 21 daysTwo reviewers minimum, double-anonymous by default, structured reports rather than free-form opinion.
3Decision — 5 daysAccept, revise or decline, with the full reviewer reports and a signed letter from the handling editor.
4Revision — your paceMajor revisions get one round with the same reviewers wherever they are still available. There is no clock on you.
5Online-first — 10 days after acceptanceCopy-edited, typeset, DOI registered and live. Issue assignment follows at the next number.

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Publish a book

Monographs, edited volumes and textbooks. Send a proposal rather than a finished manuscript — the argument, the readership, the competing titles and two sample chapters. A commissioning editor replies within three weeks, and a no comes with reasons rather than silence.

The stages of a book

1Proposal & reviewYour proposal goes to two external readers in the field. Their reports come back to you whether or not we proceed.
2Roles and responsibilitiesBefore anything is signed, we set out in writing what we do, what you do, and what each stage will cost you in time.
3Signing your contractRoyalties, rights, territories and the open access option, in a contract we will explain clause by clause if you want us to.
4Writing your manuscriptStyle guide, templates and a commissioning editor who reads chapters as they arrive rather than all at the end.
5Submitting your manuscriptFull manuscript, permissions cleared, figures at final quality. We check completeness before production starts, not during.
6Producing your bookCopy-editing, typesetting, proofs, indexing and cover. You see and sign off proofs; nothing goes to print over your objection.
7Promoting your bookCatalogue, conference presence, review copies, and a per-chapter DOI record that makes the work findable on its own terms.

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Publish conference proceedings

Proceedings are published within sixty days of your event. We handle the ISBN, per-chapter DOIs, camera-ready support and indexing submission; you handle the programme committee and the selection.

Sixty days, from event to published: Agreed in advance and written into the arrangement. If we miss it, the volume is published open access at our cost.
Per-chapter DOIs: A contributor gets a citable record of their own paper rather than a line in someone else's volume.
Camera-ready support: Templates, a formatting check for every accepted paper, and a production contact your committee can reach directly.
Indexing submission: We submit to the relevant indexes on your behalf and tell you plainly which ones we expect to accept the volume and which we do not.

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Submission guidelines

Journal-specific requirements sit on each journal's For authors tab. These apply everywhere on the platform.

Anonymise the manuscript: No author names, affiliations or acknowledgements in the main file. Put them in the separate title page the submission form asks for.
Every co-author has approved this version: And each meets the authorship criteria on our policies page. Adding or removing an author later needs written agreement from all of them.
Data and code availability: A statement is required. Where data cannot be shared, say why — 'available on request' is accepted only with a named contact who has agreed to be it.
Competing interests: Declared in the cover letter, financial or otherwise. A declared interest is rarely disqualifying; an undeclared one usually is.
Figures: 300 dpi or vector, captions in the manuscript rather than burnt into the image, and colour that survives being printed in grey.
References: Any consistent style at submission — we restyle at production. What we do check is that the list and the text match in both directions.
Reporting guidelines: STROBE, CONSORT, PRISMA or COREQ as the design requires, with the completed checklist uploaded. Trials must be prospectively registered.

Fees & funding

No journal on this platform charges a submission fee. Three of the six are fully open access and charge authors nothing at all — they are funded from Lighthouse's trade list, which is a standing arrangement rather than a temporary subsidy.

Where an APC applies: It is published on the journal's masthead in rupees, with no currency surprises at acceptance.
Automatic waivers: Corresponding authors based in low-income and lower-middle-income countries pay nothing. The waiver is applied at acceptance without an application.
Discretionary waivers: Available on request to anyone else who cannot pay. Requests go to the managing editor, not to the handling editor, and never touch the review file.
No paper is rejected for inability to pay: The editorial decision is made before the finance question is asked, and by different people.

Open access funding

Author services

Language editing: For authors writing in English as an additional language. Editing happens before review, not after, so a reviewer is reading your argument rather than your grammar.
Author tutorials: Short written guides on structuring a paper, responding to reviewers, and reading a decision letter for what it actually says.
Figure and table preparation: Redrawing to publication standard where a result deserves better than the software's default output.
Translation: Between English, Hindi and Urdu for work that would reach a wider readership in more than one of them.

After publication

Your DOI is live immediately: Registered with Crossref at online-first, so the citation works before the issue exists.
Sharing rights: Open access articles may be posted anywhere under their licence. For subscription articles you keep the right to post the accepted manuscript to your institutional repository immediately, with no embargo.
Metrics you can see: Citations from Crossref, downloads to the COUNTER 5 standard, and Altmetric attention, on the article page rather than in a quarterly email.
Corrections: If something is wrong, tell us. Errors that do not change conclusions are corrected; those that do are retracted with a notice that names the reason. The original stays online, marked.

Early career researchers

If this is your first submission anywhere, two things are worth knowing. The first is that a request for major revisions is a good outcome — it means two specialists thought the work was worth their further time. The second is that a decision letter is a technical document, not a verdict on you, and it can be read as a to-do list.

Mentored review: Doctoral candidates and postdocs can co-review with a senior reviewer, named on the report and credited for it. It is the fastest way to learn what reviewers are actually looking for.
Pre-submission enquiries: Encouraged, not tolerated. An abstract and a question costs an editor ten minutes and can save you a season.
First-decision transparency: Every journal publishes its median time to first decision, so you can plan a job application or a thesis submission around a real number.

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