Publication Guide
Inderscience Publishers is an independent commercial academic publisher founded in 1979 and registered in Geneva, Switzerland, with editorial operations based in the UK. It publishes roughly 430 peer-reviewed journals, most of them highly specialized titles in management, business administration, engineering, computing and ICT, energy, environment, and interdisciplinary applied research. Typical examples include the International Journal of Technology Management, the International Journal of Mobile Communications, and the International Journal of Environment and Pollution.
Inderscience occupies a distinct niche: where large publishers run broad-scope journals, Inderscience runs hundreds of narrow ones. If your paper sits at a specific intersection - say, entrepreneurship in emerging markets, vehicle design, or grid computing services - there is often an Inderscience title scoped precisely to it. The trade-off is that indexing, citation metrics, and visibility vary considerably from journal to journal, so per-title due diligence matters more here than with most publishers. This guide covers how to choose an Inderscience journal, what publishing costs, how peer review works, and how to submit.
Which Inderscience journal fits your paper?
| You're most likely to... | Choose this route |
|---|---|
| Have a technology, innovation or R&D management paper | International Journal of Technology Management - the publisher's flagship, one of its most-cited titles. |
| Work on knowledge management, education or organizational learning | International Journal of Innovation and Learning and related learning/knowledge titles. |
| Have environmental, energy or climate research | International Journal of Environment and Pollution or International Journal of Global Warming. |
| Work on telecom, computing or web services | International Journal of Mobile Communications or International Journal of Web and Grid Services. |
| Study entrepreneurship, SMEs or international business | International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business or European Journal of International Management. |
| Have an engineering-design paper | International Journal of Vehicle Design and dozens of other niche engineering titles. |
Before committing, check the specific journal's indexing status (Scopus, Web of Science ESCI) - it varies by title and can change.
What Inderscience actually publishes
- ~430 peer-reviewed journals organized into ten subject collections: computing and mathematics; economics and finance; education, knowledge and learning; energy and environment; healthcare and biosciences; management and business; public policy and administration; risk, safety and emergency management; science, engineering and technology; and society and leisure.
- Article types: original research articles, case studies, technical reports, and expanded versions of conference papers.
- Indexing: roughly 247 Inderscience journals are indexed in Scopus and ranked by SCImago; others appear in Web of Science's Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), DBLP, and Google Scholar. Coverage is per-title, not blanket.
Open access and APCs
Inderscience is primarily a subscription publisher: the default route costs authors nothing. Gold open access is available per article, and a growing number of titles have converted to OA-only.
| Route | Fee (EUR, per article) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription publication (default) | €0 | No submission or publication fee; readers need access via subscription. |
| Gold OA option on subscription journals | €2,200 (reduced 2026 rate; list price €3,300) | Article published under CC BY; authors retain copyright. |
| OA-only Inderscience journals | €1,700 | Except International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics at €2,200. |
OA articles are published under a CC BY 4.0 licence (Inderscience previously offered CC BY-NC-ND), authors of OA articles retain copyright, and accepted manuscripts of OA articles may be deposited in repositories immediately. Inderscience states its OA route complies with UKRI, Wellcome and NIHR funder requirements. There is no published LMIC waiver program; institutional APC payment models are available on request. Fees are revised periodically - check the current Inderscience OA page before submission.
Peer review
- Model: double-anonymized (double-blind) review on most journals - remove identifying information from your manuscript before submission.
- Editorial structure: each journal has its own Editor-in-Chief and board; decisions and turnaround times vary widely by title, and several months to first decision is common for niche journals.
How to submit
- Pick the journal. Browse Inderscience's subject collections or search SciSpace for scope, metrics and indexing.
- Read the author guidelines. Inderscience has publisher-wide preparation rules plus journal-specific notes; references follow Inderscience's Harvard-style house format.
- Prepare your manuscript. Use the Inderscience template on SciSpace and anonymize the file for double-blind review.
- Submit online. All journals use Inderscience's own online submissions system (indersciencesubmissions.com) - register as a new author or log in.
- Choose your publishing route at acceptance. Subscription (no fee) or Gold OA (APC applies).
Ethics and integrity
Inderscience publishes ethics and malpractice guidelines aligned with COPE recommendations, participates in CrossRef and preserves content via CLOCKSS. Plagiarism screening is standard, and retractions follow the publisher's stated ethics procedures. Because editorial quality is journal-specific across a 430-title portfolio, checking a target journal's board, indexing and recent output remains good practice.








