Overview
IDSCI stands as a pioneer of intelligent era in academic open access publishing. Founded in 2022 with its headquarters in Hong Kong, China, its mission is to provide a platform for open academic sharing, exchange, and co-creation in the fields of medical, social, and engineering sciences. This platform serves scholars who embrace the spirit of openness, access, and research to explore and gain insights in the endless realms of science, pursuing a life guided by the spirit of science.
Within five years, we anticipate having over 30 different open access journals, including 21 peer-reviewed journals and 9 conference journals, supported by over 50 academic experts who share our mission and values, and are committed to providing high-quality service to authors. We offer services to scholars from around the world, ensuring that the latest research is freely available, with all content distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
IDSCI is permanently based in Hong Kong with an office in Beijing, China, bringing rich experience in academic open access publishing.
Our Mission To be a pioneer in the intelligent era of academic open access publishing, aimed at promoting academic sharing, communication, and co-creation in the fields of medicine, social science, and engineering science.
Values
Sharing - All academic content is published in an open access format and distributed under a Creative Commons License, allowing free sharing of articles and reuse of content with appropriate attribution.
Communication - Focusing on timeliness and efficiency, we ensure rapid feedback to authors within a workflow of 32 working days and publication of papers within 7-10 days after acceptance.
Co-creation —Providing user-friendly tools and services, we support scholars and their work through a range of services.
Market specific taxes
The following are the article processing charges (APCs) charged by IDS Open Access journals for accepted manuscripts. Taxes may apply on qualifying transactions.
Extensive English editing
Only minor English editing is included in the APC; articles requiring extensive English editing will result in your article being returned during the publication process thereby delaying the publication of that work. If you cannot guarantee that your article is in correct English, you can contact our English-speaking colleagues for a review or paid language editing service before submitting your article. Our experience and streamlined process ensures that our team can provide you with fast English editing, which can be completed in less than a day. See Author Services for more information.
Funding of APCs and BPCs
Many funding agencies and organizations explicitly allow the use of research grants to pay for APC and BPC for open access articles and books. For more information on APC and BPC funding, please see below.
Discounts on APCs
Authors from IOAP participating universities are eligible for APC discount vouchers for articles published in an IDSCI journal, but the discount is only available once and needs to be used in conjunction with discounts from IOAP and affiliated societies. We ensure that editorial decisions are not influenced by the ability to pay processing fees, but authors should consider the likelihood of paying the APC/BPC in full and their own ability to pay. Publishers may use the waiver at their own discretion but should discuss this with the editorial office.
General Peer-Review and Editorial Procedure
After an author submits an article on the IDSCI submission system, the submission system will assign an assistant editor to the author, who will complete the basic work such as author identity audit, email audit, etc., and then the editor will be responsible for the preliminary review on the content. After the preliminary review is completed, the editor will send review invitations to the corresponding reviewers according to the specific conditions of the article. After single-blind or double-blind peer review, the reviewers will make decisions and suggestions for revisions (if any), and the article will be submitted to the editor-in-chief for a final acceptance decision after final revisions are made, and the article will be proofread, edited in English, and finally published after the acceptance decision is received.
Editorial Decision and Revision
In IDSCI's review process, the publication of all articles is subject to a peer-review process and receipt of at least 2 review reports. After discussion between internal and external editors, we may communicate the following decisions to authors:
Accepted: the paper is accepted without any revision
Accepted with minor revisions: the paper is accepted in principle with minor revisions, which should be completed within 5 days.
Reconsideration with major revisions: the acceptance of the paper depends on the outcome of the revisions. Each manuscript is allowed a maximum of two rounds of major revisions, and authors are required to resubmit the paper within ten days, then back to the review process for a further comments. If revisions are expected to take more than two months, authors are advised to withdraw their manuscripts in order to ensure that all manuscripts are adequately revised.
Reject and encouragement to resubmit: If the article needs more experimental data to support the authors will face rejection. We encourage the authors to resubmit the article after conducting more experiments.
Reject: Articles with serious flaws will be rejected and not accepted for resubmission.