Advances in Community Services Research (ACSR) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal. ACSR 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 ACSR Article Processing Charge is IDR 750,000 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 ACSR 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 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 ACSR policy.
Section Applicability: The same standard APC and affiliation-based waiver policy apply to both ACSR editorial sections: Article, accepting Research Paper and Literature Review Paper manuscripts, and Community Partnerships and Impacts, accepting Community Service Article manuscripts.
APC Transparency: The current standard ACSR APC is IDR 750,000 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.
ACSR 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 ACSR'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.
The same standards of scholarly quality, research integrity, methodological adequacy, independent peer review, and editorial decision-making apply to all manuscripts regardless of APC or waiver status. Manuscripts are evaluated according to the requirements applicable to their respective ACSR editorial sections.
After final scientific-editorial acceptance, the ACSR 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 ACSR 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 ACSR 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 ACSR 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 editorial and scholarly record before reaching or recommending final scientific-editorial acceptance.
The Article section uses the Advances in Research Master Manuscript Template and the standard scholarly review form for Research Paper and Literature Review Paper manuscripts. The Community Partnerships and Impacts section uses the New ACSR Template Submission and its dedicated review form containing 11 assessment components for Community Service Article manuscripts.
Post-acceptance administration prepares an already accepted manuscript for accurate and responsible 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 ACSR Editorial Office. A manuscript should not be submitted to another journal while it remains under consideration by ACSR. 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 ACSR 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 ACSR 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 ACSR 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.
ACSR publishes one annual volume consisting of exactly two regular numbered issues. The journal follows a biannual publication frequency, with Issue No. 1 and Issue No. 2 within each annual volume.
Both the Article and Community Partnerships and Impacts sections operate within the same journal publication framework. The existence of two editorial sections does not create additional numbered issues or separate publication frequencies.
Publication-ready manuscripts may proceed to online publication within the applicable numbered issue after completing the required scientific-editorial, copyediting, proofreading, production, and metadata-verification procedures, in accordance with the journal's publication arrangements.
Previously published volumes, issue assignments, publication dates, article metadata, bibliographic information, DOI records, and other established scholarly records remain unchanged. Current publication arrangements do not retrospectively modify the journal's historical scholarly record.
The current ACSR 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 Muslim Muslim, Managing Editor, at advancesresearch@gmail.com.
Matters requiring principal scientific-editorial attention may be directed to Muhammad Ridwan Manulusi, Editor-in-Chief, through the ACSR Editorial Office. Academic editorial decisions remain separate from APC invoicing, payment verification, waiver administration, and other financial or operational matters.