Article Processing Charges

All articles published in Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology (JPAM) are immediately open access and subject to an article processing charge (APC) upon acceptance.

Article Processing Charge (APC) for authors affiliated with
Indian Institutions/Universities (when all the authors are affiliated with Indian Institutions/Universities within India) Foreign Institutions/Universities (when one or more authors are affiliated with Foreign Institutions/Universities outside India)
Rs.16000/- As mentioned in the table below

JPAM offers discounted APCs exclusively to corresponding authors based in countries classified by the World Bank as low-income or lower-middle-income, as listed in the table below:

US$ 750 (High-Income Countries)
US$ 675 (Upper-Middle-Income Countries)
US$ 600 (Lower-Middle Income Countries)
US$ 500 (Low-Income Countries)
Andorra
Albania
Angola
Afghanistan
Antigua and Barbuda
Algeria
Bangladesh
Burkina Faso
Aruba
American Samoa
Benin
Burundi
Australia
Argentina
Bhutan
Central African Republic
Austria
Armenia
Bolivia
Chad
Bahrain
Azerbaijan
Cabo Verde
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Barbados
Belarus
Cambodia
Eritrea
Belgium
Belize
Cameroon
Ethiopia
Brunei
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Comoros
The Gambia
Bulgaria
Botswana
Congo, Rep.
Guinea
Canada
Brazil
Côte d’Ivoire
Guinea-Bissau
Chile
China
Djibouti
North Korea
Costa Rica
Colombia
Egypt
Liberia
Croatia
Cuba
El Salvador
Madagascar
Curaçao
Dominica
Eswatini
Malawi
Cyprus
Dominican Republic
Ghana
Mali
Czech Republic
Ecuador
Haiti
Mozambique
Denmark
Equatorial Guinea
Honduras
Niger
Estonia
Fiji
Iran
Rwanda
Finland
Gabon
Kenya
Sierra Leone
France
Georgia
Kiribati
Somalia
French Polynesia
Grenada
Kyrgyzstan
South Sudan
Germany
Guatemala
Lao PDR
Sudan
Gibraltar
Indonesia
Lebanon
Syria
Greece
Iraq
Lesotho
Togo
Greenland
Jamaica
Mauritania
Uganda
Guam
Jordan
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.
Yemen
Guyana
Kazakhstan
Morocco
Hong Kong
Kosovo
Myanmar
Hungary
Libya
Nepal
Iceland
Malaysia
Nicaragua
Ireland
Maldives
Nigeria
Israel
Marshall Islands
Pakistan
Italy
Mauritius
Papua New Guinea
Japan
Mexico
Republic of the Congo
Kuwait
Moldova
Samoa
Latvia
Montenegro
São Tomé and Príncipe
Liechtenstein
Mongolia
Senegal
Lithuania
Namibia
Solomon Islands
Luxembourg
North Macedonia
Sri Lanka
Malta
Paraguay
Tajikistan
Nauru
Peru
Tanzania
Netherlands
Philippines
Timor-Leste
New Caledonia
Serbia
Tunisia
New Zealand
South Africa
Ukraine
Norway
St. Lucia
Uzbekistan
Oman
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Vanuatu
Palau
Suriname
West Bank and Gaza
Panama
Thailand
Zambia
Poland
Tonga
Zimbabwe
Portugal
Türkiye
Qatar
Turkmenistan
Romania
Tuvalu
Russia
Vietnam
Saint Kitts and Nevis
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Seychelles
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
The Bahamas
Trinidad and Tobago
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay

Notes:

  • We do not charge any Article Submission Charges.
  • The APCs are charged as per the corresponding author primary affiliated country upon acceptance of the article.
  • Indian Institutions APCs will only be charged when all the authors of the article are affiliated with Indian Institutions within India.       
  • Authors who wish to receive a hard copy of the journal are required to pay extra for Printing, Packing, and Registered Postal Charges: Rs. 1000/- (per copy) within India; US$50 (per copy) outside India.
Article Withdrawal Charges

If an author requests to withdraw the article after it has been peer-reviewed, they will be charged Rs. 3200/- (Within India) / USD 150 (Outside India) or after it has been typeset (but not yet published), they will be charged Rs. 4800/- (Within India ) / USD 225 (Outside India). For more information, please see here.