Our goal is to provide you with a professional and courteous experience at each stage of the review and publication process. There are also some responsibilities that sit with you as the author. Our expectation is that you will:

• Respond swiftly to any queries during the publication process.

• Be accountable for all aspects of your work. This includes investigating and resolving any questions about accuracy or research integrity

• Treat communications between you and the journal editor as confidential until an editorial decision has been made.

• Read about our research ethics for authorship. These state that you must:

  1. 1. Include anyone who has made a substantial and meaningful contribution to the submission (anyone else involved in the paper should be listed in the acknowledgements).

     2. Exclude anyone who hasn’t contributed to the paper, or who has chosen not to be associated with the research.

     3. In accordance with COPE’s position statement on AI tools, Large Language Models cannot be credited with authorship as they are incapable of conceptualising a research design without human direction and cannot be accountable for the integrity, originality, and validity of the published work. The author(s) must describe the content created or modified as well as appropriately cite the name and version of the AI tool used; any additional works drawn on by the AI tool should also be appropriately cited and referenced. Standard tools that are used to improve spelling and grammar are not included within the parameters of this guidance. The Editor and Publisher reserve the right to determine whether the use of an AI tool is permissible.

• If your article involves human participants, you must ensure you have considered whether or not you require ethical approval for your research, and include this information as part of your submission. 

Article Processing Charge (APC)

WEACADEMIC charges a APC of only $20 USD per accepted paper. This fee covers:

• Double-anonymized peer review management

• Professional copyediting and typesetting

• Long-term digital archiving (PKP PN / LOCKSS)

• DOI registration for every article

• Immediate open access hosting with no paywalls

• We keep our APC deliberately low because we believe cost should never be the main barrier to publishing good research.

Fee Waiver & Negotiation

If $20 USD presents a genuine hardship — especially for independent researchers, early-career scholars, or authors from lower-income economies — please contact us before submission. We are happy to discuss:

• Full or partial fee waivers

• Installment payment plans

• Institutional sponsorship arrangements

• No author will be turned away solely for inability to pay. We ask only for honesty and good-faith communication.

Translation Support: $5 USD (Optional)

WEACADEMIC accepts manuscripts in English, Bahasa, and Mandarin Chinese. If your paper requires professional translation into English after acceptance, we offer an optional translation service for $5 USD (up to 6,000 words).

• This service uses human editors, not automated tools

• You retain full copyright and authorship

• You may also use your own translator — no obligation to use our service

• Translation fees can also be included in any waiver or negotiation discussion.

WEACADEMIC overarching principles of AI usage:

1. Authors and peer reviewers are responsible and accountable for the accuracy and integrity of their work.

2. AI tools and technology must be used responsibly and transparently.

3. AI tools and technology should not replace human involvement in the publication process but instead supplement it.

Copywriting (creating, drafting, or writing) solely part of a submission using generative AI tools and technology to generate new material is not permitted.

Copy-editing (correcting, editing, formatting, modifying, or refining) all or part of an author’s own original existing work using generative AI tools and technology the content to improve its structure and the clarity of the language and grammar is permitted, ensuring users adhere to the following overarching principles.

Our editors and employees work hard to ensure the content we publish is ethically sound. To help us achieve that goal, we closely follow the advice laid out in the guidelines and flowcharts on the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) website.

We have also developed our research and publishing ethics guidelines. If you haven’t already read these, we urge you to do so – they will help you avoid the most common publishing ethics issues.

A few key points:

• Any manuscript you submit to this journal should be original. That means it should not have been published before in its current, or similar, form. Exceptions to this rule are outlined in our pre-print and conference paper policies.  If any substantial element of your paper has been previously published, you need to declare this to the journal editor upon submission. Please note, the journal editor may use Crossref Similarity Check to check on the originality of submissions received. This service compares submissions against a database of 49 million works from 800 scholarly publishers.

• Your work should not have been submitted elsewhere and should not be under consideration by any other publication.

• If you have a conflict of interest, you must declare it upon submission; this allows the editor to decide how they would like to proceed. Read about conflict of interest in our research and publishing ethics guidelines.

• By submitting your work to WEACADEMIC, you are guaranteeing that the work is not in infringement of any existing copyright.

Prior to article submission, you need to ensure you’ve applied for, and received, written permission to use any material in your manuscript that has been created by a third party. Please note, we are unable to publish any article that still has permissions pending. The rights we require are:

• • • Non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the article or book chapter.

    • Print and electronic rights.

    • Worldwide English-language rights.

    • To use the material for the life of the work. That means there should be no time restrictions on its re-use e.g. a one-year licence.

Please take a few moments to read our guide to publishing permissions to ensure you have met all the requirements, so that we can process your submission without delay.

Open Access – All articles published by WEACADEMIC are freely available online immediately upon publication. No paywalls. No registration required. Anyone, anywhere, can read, download, and share our research.

Submissions – WEACADEMIC welcomes submissions from academics, professionals, and practitioners alike. Our peer review process is fair, double-anonymized, and timely. We provide clear author guidelines and supportive editorial feedback.

Information – Transparency is at our core. Here you will find everything you need: journal scopes, publication fees (APC), waiver policies, ethical guidelines, copyright and licensing terms, and our editorial team. No hidden clauses. No confusing fine print.