THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

Thermal Science - [Participation Fee]

PUBLICATION FEES

Following the decision of the Management Board of the Society of Thermal Engineers of Serbia on February 4, 2025, we would like to announce that there will be a modification to our publication fees:

  • For manuscripts submitted before March 1, 2025, the current publication fee of 180 EUR will remain in effect
  • For manuscripts submitted on or after March 1, 2025, the publication fee will be 300 EUR

This adjustment reflects our commitment to maintaining the high quality of our publication while meeting the evolving costs of scientific publishing. All other submission and publication procedures remain unchanged. We continue to uphold our rigorous peer-review process and high editorial standards.

If you have any questions about this change or need further clarification, please don't hesitate to contact our editorial office.

Thank you for your continued support of Thermal Science journal.

Decision of the Society of Thermal Engineers of Serbia, founder of the journal Thermal Science

The Management Board of the SOCIETY OF THERMAL ENGINEERS OF SERBIA, on the session held on February 4, 2025, wishing to create stable financial conditions for publishing the THERMAL SCIENCE journal, reached the following decisions:

  • A PARTICIPATION FEE of 300 Euros per paper, is introduced for all papers submitted for publication in the journal THERMAL SCIENCE,
  • Submission of the papers is free of charge,
  • Reviewing process is free of charge,
  • PARTICIPATION FEE have to be paid ONLY after positive decision of the Editor-in-chief, that paper is ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION,
  • After receiving positive opinions from the reviewers, and after positive decision of the Editor-in-chief, paper will be included in Online first list, ONLY AFTER receiving the "participation fee" on the bank account of the SOCIETY OF THERMAL ENGINEERS OF SERBIA.
  • For papers which are already on the Online first list the authors are not obliged to pay PARTICIPATION FEE, but will be kindly asked to pay "participation fee" if they want to help financial stabilization of the journal THERMAL SCIENCE, and to help actions of the National Editorial Board to shorten waiting period from Online first list to assignment and publishing in specific Issue

Management Board of the SOCIETY OF THERMAL ENGINEERS OF SERBIA and National Editorial Board are aware that this is not popular and easy decision.

In the past years, due to the quality of the papers published, THERMAL SCIENCE journal became a respectable international scientific journal, with continuously growing Impact factor, starting from 0.407 in 2009 up to 0.779 in 2011. Presently, current Impact factor is 1.45.

As a consequence of the growing number of papers, increased number of issues per year and increased number of pages per issue, and at the same time due to world economy crisis and increase of prices of material and labour, costs of publishing journal, per issue and per page, increased several times.

Being aware that it is not possible to create sustainable financial and editing conditions for publishing the THERMAL SCIENCE journal, due to the fact that subscription cannot provide enough funds, especially considering the increase in number of papers to about 150 papers per year (by decreasing maximum number of pages per paper from 16 to 12), and despite financial help from several sponsors, but at the same time wishing to satisfy interest of the scientists all over the world to publish results of their investigations, the Management Board was forced to accept the above mentioned decision.

This decision will also make possible to fulfill one of the main principles of the National Editorial Board of the journal THERMAL SCIENCE - to publish Open access journal, available to all to publish and read.