Advances in Business & Industrial Marketing Research (ABIM) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal. ABIM applies an Article Processing Charge (APC) only to accepted manuscripts that meet the applicable institutional-affiliation criteria. No APC is payable during submission, editorial screening, peer review, revision, post-revision verification, or any other pre-acceptance stage.
APC or waiver administration begins only after the manuscript has completed the required scientific-editorial evaluation and received a final editorial decision of acceptance. Payment arrangements and waiver verification are administrative matters that remain separate from scholarly evaluation and editorial decision-making.
APC revenue supports journal operations, including editorial administration, manuscript management, copyediting, proofreading, production, digital publication, DOI-related processing, metadata preparation, website maintenance, archiving, and scholarly dissemination. APC revenue does not confer any academic editorial advantage or influence the scientific assessment of manuscripts.
For an accepted manuscript where at least one author is institutionally affiliated with an institution in Indonesia, the current standard ABIM Article Processing Charge is IDR 1,500,000 per accepted manuscript.
Where all authors are institutionally affiliated exclusively with institutions outside Indonesia, the manuscript receives a full APC waiver / IDR 0. A separate waiver application is not normally required once the relevant institutional affiliations have been verified by the ABIM Editorial Office.
APC and waiver eligibility are determined by institutional affiliation, not nationality, citizenship, country of birth, residence, passport, or another personal characteristic. Manuscripts involving a combination of Indonesian and non-Indonesian institutional affiliations are subject to the standard APC when at least one author has an institutional affiliation in Indonesia.
The Editorial Office may verify the institutional affiliations declared in the manuscript, separate Title Page, submission metadata, and other relevant author information before finalizing APC or waiver administration. Eligibility is assessed consistently under the applicable ABIM policy.
APC Transparency: The current standard ABIM APC is IDR 1,500,000 for accepted manuscripts meeting the Indonesian institutional-affiliation criteria. Previously issued official invoices, agreed payment terms, and valid historical administrative records are not changed retroactively merely because the journal's current APC policy differs from an earlier arrangement.
ABIM does not charge a mandatory submission fee, peer-review fee, page charge, color-figure charge, mandatory language-editing fee, or separate withdrawal fee. Authors are not required to purchase additional commercial, editorial, or publication services as a condition of manuscript consideration or acceptance.
Language editing, proofreading, formatting, consulting, editorial assistance, or similar external services are not mandatory purchases for authors. Any privately arranged optional service must remain separate from ABIM's independent editorial assessment and must not be represented as providing guaranteed acceptance, favorable peer review, or publication.
APC payment, ability to pay, non-payment before an APC becomes due, waiver eligibility, or waiver status does not influence editorial screening, reviewer selection, independent peer review, reviewer recommendations, revision requirements, post-revision scientific verification, editorial evaluation, acceptance, or rejection.
Payment does not purchase manuscript acceptance, favorable reviewer recommendations, editorial preference, expedited scientific treatment, issue assignment, DOI registration, or guaranteed publication. Scientific-editorial decisions remain under the authority of the responsible academic editors in accordance with the journal's Aims & Scope, research-integrity requirements, independent peer-review procedures, and publication policies.
All scholarly fields recognized in the current ABIM Aims & Scope have equal standing as part of the journal's main scholarly scope. A manuscript may establish scholarly relevance through any one recognized field without requiring marketing, industrial marketing, or other cross-disciplinary variables.
The same scholarly requirements, recognized manuscript types, methodological and analytical standards, research-integrity expectations, peer-review criteria, and editorial decision procedures apply to all manuscripts regardless of whether the standard APC is payable or a full waiver is granted.
After final scientific-editorial acceptance, the ABIM Editorial Office verifies the manuscript's APC or waiver status according to the authors' institutional affiliations. Where the standard APC applies, the corresponding author receives an official ABIM invoice stating the applicable amount, authorized payment instructions, and relevant administrative information.
For manuscripts subject to an APC, copyediting, production, and final publication proceed after the required payment verification. Manuscripts receiving a full APC waiver proceed through the applicable post-acceptance workflow after waiver eligibility has been verified.
Authors should not make APC payments during submission, editorial screening, peer review, revision, or any other pre-acceptance stage. Payment should be made only after final editorial acceptance and receipt of an official invoice issued through the authorized ABIM administrative process.
APC-related correspondence, invoice administration, payment confirmation, and waiver verification remain administrative responsibilities. These procedures do not replace, determine, or reopen the scientific-editorial acceptance decision. Material research-integrity or publication concerns identified after acceptance must be referred to the responsible academic editor.
The normal ABIM scientific-editorial and publication process is Submission → Editorial Screening → Independent Peer Review → Revision → Post-Revision Verification → Final Editorial Acceptance → APC or Waiver Verification → Post-Acceptance Administration → Copyediting → Proofreading & Production → Metadata Verification → Version of Record → Online Publication.
Eligible manuscripts normally undergo double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers with relevant subject or methodological expertise. Reviewer recommendations are advisory, and the responsible academic editor evaluates the complete scholarly record before reaching or recommending final scientific-editorial acceptance.
Under the current ABIM Aims & Scope framework, the journal considers Research Papers, Literature Review Papers, and Conceptual Papers. Each recognized manuscript type remains subject to appropriate scholarly, methodological, ethical, peer-review, and editorial requirements.
Post-acceptance administration prepares an already accepted manuscript for accurate and responsible scholarly publication. It is not a continuation of ordinary peer review. Scientifically resolved matters should be reopened only when a genuine scientific-integrity, ethical, legal, authorship, metadata, or publication blocker requires appropriate editorial attention.
Where a formal Letter of Acceptance (LoA) is issued, it follows the final scientific-editorial acceptance decision. APC payment, invoice issuance, payment verification, or waiver status does not create, purchase, or independently determine acceptance.
APC payment does not independently determine the manuscript's issue assignment, DOI registration date, publication date, production priority, or publication timing. These matters remain subject to the journal's editorial and production requirements, metadata verification, publication readiness, and applicable publication schedule.
A final editorial acceptance decision does not eliminate the need to complete applicable post-acceptance administrative and production requirements. Formal publication occurs only after the required publication workflow has been completed and the article is eligible for release within the appropriate volume and numbered issue.
Authors may request withdrawal of a manuscript under consideration by formally contacting the ABIM Editorial Office. A manuscript should not be submitted to another journal while it remains under consideration by ABIM. Authors should obtain formal confirmation that the manuscript is no longer under consideration before submitting it elsewhere.
Before APC payment, no APC or separate withdrawal fee is payable. Withdrawal requests are handled through the appropriate editorial and administrative procedures and must be documented in the manuscript's editorial record.
After APC payment and commencement of substantive post-acceptance publication services, such as copyediting, proofreading, production, DOI-related processing, metadata preparation, or other publication activities, the APC is normally non-refundable.
Duplicate payments, overpayments, payment errors, or journal-attributable administrative problems that prevent publication are reviewed individually by the ABIM Editorial Office. Authors should provide the relevant official invoice, payment confirmation, and supporting correspondence where appropriate.
Withdrawal of an unpublished manuscript is distinct from retraction of a formally published article. Once an article has been published, applicable corrections, Expressions of Concern, retractions, and other post-publication actions are governed by the journal's publication ethics and post-publication policies.
Authors should use only payment instructions contained in an official ABIM invoice issued after final editorial acceptance. The journal does not recognize unauthorized intermediaries, unofficial representatives, unverified payment accounts, or third-party claims that payment can guarantee manuscript acceptance, favorable review, publication, indexing, or other editorial outcomes.
Bank-account and payment-account details are not published openly on this page. Authors who receive suspicious payment requests, requests for advance payment, or conflicting invoice instructions should seek verification from the official ABIM Editorial Office before transferring funds.
Authors are encouraged to retain their official invoice, payment confirmation, and relevant administrative correspondence. APC-related financial administration must remain distinct from academic editorial assessment and the journal's independent scientific decision-making process.
ABIM publishes one annual volume comprising exactly three regular numbered issues. The journal's standard annual publication periods are Issue No. 1: January–April, Issue No. 2: May–August, and Issue No. 3: September–December.
The January–April, May–August, and September–December schedule applies fully from Volume 5 (2027) onward. Previously established volume and issue designations, including the transitional publication record for 2026, remain unchanged.
Beginning on 1 September 2026, ABIM applies a continuous-publication model within the applicable active numbered issue. Publication-ready articles may be released individually after the required scientific-editorial, copyediting, proofreading, production, and metadata-verification procedures have been completed.
Continuous publication does not create additional numbered issues, change the journal's annual publication frequency, or eliminate the requirement to assign each formally published article to the appropriate volume and issue. The published article constitutes the authoritative Version of Record.
Previously published volumes, issue assignments, publication dates, article metadata, bibliographic information, DOI records, and other established scholarly records remain unchanged. The current publication framework applies prospectively and does not retrospectively modify the journal's historical scholarly record.
The current ABIM APC framework governs applicable manuscript and post-acceptance administration under the journal's published policy. Previously issued official invoices, agreed payment terms, completed editorial decisions, valid administrative records, and published scholarly records are not retrospectively altered merely to conform to the current APC framework.
Questions concerning APC status, institutional-affiliation verification, waiver eligibility, official invoices, payment verification, withdrawal administration, or refunds may be directed to the ABIM Editorial Office under the coordination of Muh. Haerdiansyah Syahnur, Managing Editor.
Primary Email: editor@advancesinresearch.id
Alternative Email: advancesresearch@gmail.com
Official WhatsApp: +62 821 9454 8786
Matters requiring principal scientific-editorial attention may be referred to Mohammad Ashoer, Editor-in-Chief. Academic editorial decisions remain separate from APC invoicing, payment verification, waiver administration, and other financial or operational matters.
Publisher: Yayasan Pendidikan Bukhari Dwi Muslim, Indonesia. APC-related administrative correspondence should be conducted through authorized journal channels, and authors should retain the official invoice, payment confirmation, and relevant correspondence for their records.
Prospective authors should consult the current ABIM manuscript guidelines, Aims & Scope, publication ethics, publication frequency, and other applicable policies before submitting their work. The journal maintains a transparent APC framework in which publication charges and waiver eligibility remain administratively separate from independent scholarly evaluation and editorial decision-making.