Why Service Charges?

Ignited Minds Journals is a self-supporting organization and does not receive funding from any institution/government. Hence, the operation of the Journal is solely financed by the handling fees received from authors. The handling fees are required to pay for third party services like plagiarism checking, DOI procurement   and meet operations expenses such as employees’ salaries, electronic composition and production, internet services, electricity etc. Being an Open Access Publisher, Ignited Minds Journals does not receive payment for subscription as the journals are freely accessible over the internet.

Articles are accepted or rejected for publication and published solely on the basis of merit. Authors will be assessed the following fees:

Categories	Indians	NRI/other Nationals	Remarks
Students	3500 INR	$ 75	Need to provide ID proof for association with academic institution
Research Scholars	3000 INR	$ 70	Need to provide ID proof for association with academic institution
Academicians	4500 INR	$ 95	Need to provide proof for association with current academic institution
Standard	4800 INR	$ 110	Authors other than students/research scholar/academicians are be included under standard category.