About the Journal
Sources of Support/Fees to Authors
Noyam Journals operates an open-access policy and does not charge subscription or access fees for our journals. However, upon full acceptance of a submitted manuscript for publication, authors are required to contribute to the costs incurred during the publication process.
Our author publication fees cover the cost of the following:
- correspondence fee
- assigning a DOI for each article
- similarity check
- proofreading and copyediting
- permanent web hosting for your articles
- globally unrestricted access to your content
- typesetting and formatting for an online PDF version of your article.
There are however no charges for paper submissions and papers that are rejected during the review process. The APC remains the same no matter how many pages, authors, graphic content, etc. your article may have. Upon acceptance of your manuscript, we would provide you with further directions on our accepted modes of payment. Authors who require other editing services would be charged an additional editorial fee different from the APC.
Payments Summary
Payments from Ghana: GH₵ 800
International Payments (within Africa): USD 150
International Payments (outside Africa): USD 200
Publisher Information
Noyam Journals
Y23 Lomo Adawu St.
GL-039-2490, Accra - Ghana
P.O.Box La 165 Accra - Ghana
Tel: +233593142920
Email: publications@noyam.org
www.noyam.org
Peer Review
All articles submitted to this journal are subjected to a peer-review process. The double-blind review process takes about 4 to 9 weeks.
Authors would be notified at each stage of the review process.
Outline of the Peer Review process:
Each submitted paper goes through an initial plagiarism check using the CrossRef’s Similarity Check software powered by iThenticate’s Turnitin. Articles that contain plagiarised content of other published articles would be rejected.
Articles that pass the plagiarism check go through a blind pre-review process assessing its quality, accuracy, references (up-to-date, appropriate, sufficient), punctuation, spelling and grammar.
Manuscripts that do not pass the initial blind pre-review stage are sent back to their respective authors to make amends and re-submit where appropriate or rejected.
If a paper passes a pre-review stage, the Editorial Board assigns it to a reviewer with expertise relating to the scope of the submitted manuscript for a blind review.
During the blind review process, a reviewer assesses a submitted manuscript, assigns marks and makes comments based on the categories listed below: Originality and creativity;
Interest of the topic to the readers;
Significance/usefulness;
Mastery over subject;
Contribution to knowledge;
Accuracy (Methodology);
Comprehensiveness;
Punctuation;
Spelling and Grammar;
References (up-to-date, appropriate, sufficient);
Tables, Charts and Captions.
The Reviewer outlines the strengths, weaknesses and other comments to be considered by an author in a review report, provides an overall score and recommends one of the following: Publish as it is, Publish upon minor revisions, Publish upon major revisions or Reject.
Once the final report from a reviewer is sent to the Editorial Team, a final decision is made about the manuscript and sent to the author. Authors of manuscripts that are accepted are expected to make the necessary corrections where appropriate and submit the following: A copy of the revised manuscript and a word document outlining point-by-point the corrections they have made according to the reviewer’s comments.
Publication Scheduling
This journal publishes online monthly.
