Key Features / Open Access
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Open access to full text articles as the journal is managed by the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors with no commercial interest.
EXCLI Journal provides free access (Open Access) to its contents according to the basic assumption that the free public availability of research benefits a worldwide knowledge exchange.
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Publication is free of costs for scientists. There will be no article processing charges for 2017.
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Color pictures are also published free of costs.
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Online submission and reviewing process: The manuscripts are sent to two independent reviewers. Both reviewers must fulfil the following criteria: i) they must have published in the field of research of the manuscript of interest in peer reviewer journals. ii) They must not have published together with the authors and co-authors of a manuscript within the past ten years. This is checked by a Pubmed search in the editorial office. iii) The reviewers must not have any cooperations or mutal research projects with the authors. The reviewers have to come to one of the following recommendations: 1. reject, 2. reject with the possibility to resubmit, 3. major revision, 4. minor revision, 5: accept. If there are major discrepancies between the two reviewers the editor may invite a third reviewer.
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First submissions of manuscripts may be done in .doc, .docx, .rtf or .PDF format. It is recommended to format references in the style of EXCLI J. As soon as a manuscript is accepted, the authors have a last chance to format their article in the style of EXCLI J. We guarantee publication within 7 days as soon as we receive an accepted, correctly formatted manuscript.
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Although the majority of our articles does not exceed 10 pages there is no limitation of space. Long articles and extensive reviews are also welcome. Also extensive descriptions of Materials and Methods that facilitate reproduction of experiments as well as additional materials (films, simulations, original data sets) may be published by EXCLI J.
No other journal fulfils the role EXCLI Journal has set itself, the rapid
publication of timely short communications in Sciences.