News for Electrochemistry – Editor’s Choice and Cover Art Launched / APC Reduction Rate Revised –

November 5, 2024
Electrochemistry Editorial Board
The Electrochemical Society of Japan

     The Editorial Board of Electrochemistry published by The Electrochemical Society of Japan announces the following revisions for Electrochemistry. The Instructions for Authors will be revised to reflect these revisions shortly.

Editor’s Choice and Cover Art are launched on January 2025
     Editor’s Choice Article will be selected monthly based on articles of high interest to the Editorial Board of Electrochemistry. One article per month will be selected in principle, considering the current number of papers published.
     Authors of papers selected as Editor’s Choice will be entitled to have their cover art published on the cover page of the current month for a fee. The selected cover art will appear in the thumbnail and table of contents of J-STAGE, where Electrochemistry is published. Publication of cover art by the author is optional, however, the authors of article for Editor’s Choice will be encouraged to create their own cover art.

Table Sizes and Fees for Cover Art

• The author is responsible for preparing the cover art design, which must be submitted within approximately two weeks from the selection of the Editor’s Choice.

     As an example of the layout, please refer to the cover art of the award-winning special issue published in October 2024 as follows.
Journal top page        https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/electrochemistry/-char/ja
Table of contents       https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/electrochemistry/list/-char/ja
PDF of the article      https://doi.org/10.5796/electrochemistry.24-00067

Revision for Discount Rate of Article Processing Charge (APC)

     The Article Processing Charge (APC) for Electrochemistry was fixed in December 2020, and a discount rate of 66.7% (2/3) has been applied to Category B, which is mainly applied to ECSJ members. Four years have passed since the fixed rate was introduced, and the number of pages and figures in published papers has tended to increase, which leads to higher publication costs, due to more detailed descriptions of bibliographic data and more publication of Abstract Graphic in order to improve the quality of published papers. ECSJ will revise the reduction rate for Category B reflecting the current publication costs as follows.

APC reduction rate for Category B: 60% (66.7% before revision)

The revised APC will be applied to papers submitted on or after April 1, 2025.
We would appreciate your understanding in this matter.