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Submission guidelines

Our 3-step submission process

  1. Before you submit

    Before you submit, we recommend familiarizing yourself with the following.

  2. Ready to submit

    To give your manuscript the best chance of publication, follow these editorial policies and formatting guidelines.

  3. Submit and promote

    After acceptance, we provide support so your article gains maximum impact in the scientific community and beyond.

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Annual journal metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 1.3
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: N/A
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.955
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.526

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 11
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 119

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 581,134
    Altmetric mentions: 776

Abstract and indexing coverage
CNKI
dblp
DOAJ
EBSCO Academic Search
EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO STM Source
EBSCO TOC Premier 
ESCI
Google Scholar
Inspec
OCLC
ProQuest - Summon
Scopus

Institutional membership

Visit the membership page to check if your institution is a member and learn how you could save on article-processing charges (APCs).

Funding your APC

​​​​​​​Open access funding and policy support by SpringerOpen​​

​​​​We offer a free open access support service to make it easier for you to discover and apply for article-processing charge (APC) funding. Learn more here