Build, operate and strengthen credible scholarly journals
Journal infrastructure, editorial-office operations, production, governance and indexing readiness for universities, societies and research institutions. Choose a focused service or a managed engagement; your editors retain final authority and your organisation retains its journal data.
Service prices remain visible below. Inclusion in any index is decided solely by that database; we assess readiness, close documented gaps and prepare eligible applications.
One audit before any package
Every engagement above $2,000 begins with the same three-to-four-week audit, so the proposal you receive is based on your journal, not a template.
Journal Health Check
Scores one journal against eleven pain areas — editorial workload, peer review, integrity, methods checks, platform, production regularity, discoverability, indexing eligibility, funding model, governance, reporting. You receive a scorecard, an indexing eligibility map with realistic dates, a prioritized roadmap, and a two-page summary written for a dean or council. The fee is credited against any package signed within 90 days.
Pick the part of the journal that hurts
Each pillar page lists its services with prices, units and what is delivered. Buy single items online, or ask for a proposal.
Platform & Hosting
Rent managed OJS hosting, own the platform on your servers, or have us build-operate-transfer. Upgrades, security, archiving, accessibility.
Editorial Office & Peer Review
Submission pre-checks, reviewer sourcing and chasing, decision letters, statistical review, an interim managing editor — your editors still decide.
Article Production
Copyediting, typesetting, JATS XML, accessible PDF, corrections and backlog clearance. Priced per 500 words and per article, no minimums.
Ethics, Governance & Policies
Policies written for your journal, COPE/ICMJE reviews, integrity screening, case handling, appeals, guest-editor checks, training.
Indexing Readiness & Growth
Eligibility maps for DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, MEDLINE and CNKI; rejection diagnostics; applications only when eligible; submissions growth and dashboards.
Complete Journal Management
One modular contract can combine platform, governance, editorial-office capacity and production. Scope is set per journal; dedicated services and publication volumes are priced separately.
Nine situations, nine starting points
Starting a journal
Foundation $4,999, Professional $9,999 or Institutional $19,999 — each available as rent, own, or build-operate-transfer. A $1,999 feasibility study first if you are unsure.
Our journal is struggling or outdated
Health Check, platform rescue, backlog clearance, policy rewrite, board reset, and a six-month turnaround plan. Revive & Modernize from $7,999.
Our editor is overwhelmed
A managed editorial office from $1,999 a month: screening, reviewer management, correspondence, records and a monthly report.
Issues are always late
Per-article copyedit and typeset, issue assembly with committed dates, and a fixed-scope backlog sprint from $2,500.
We want to be indexed
Eligibility map, staged remediation with gates, per-database applications unlocked only when eligible. The database decides; we prepare.
We worry about ethics and credibility
Policies, board governance, integrity screening, case handling and an annual audit — or the whole set as the Credibility Program, $5,999 a year.
We run several journals
For portfolios of 10 or more titles, shared platform, governance and reporting plans start at $3,999 per journal per year. Dedicated editorial-office and production capacity are scoped separately.
We want our journal back, or to move it
Rights and title review, ISSN/DOI continuity, archive recovery and the technical migration. Move or take it back from $3,499; migration free with annual hosting.
We want to own our platform
A client-owned OJS build from $1,499 with handover and training — or we run it for one to three years, then transfer it.
Like-for-like, without per-submission fees
What a small journal pays in a year
For a journal with about 100 submissions and 40 published articles a year, Managed OJS Hosting — Basic plus per-article typesetting comes to roughly $5,079. The same journal on Scholastica's published platform, per-submission and production pricing comes to roughly $7,809.
Migration in — back issues, metadata, DOIs and redirects — is free with any annual hosting plan, and you can leave at any time with a full export.
Our estimate, September 2026, from list prices; scope confirmed at onboarding. Scholastica is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with NeucitePress.Your editors decide. We run the process.
Editorial independence
The journal's own editors keep final authority over reviewer selection, editorial assessment and acceptance. NeucitePress runs the process and the infrastructure — never the decision.
Platform independence
Open-source software (OJS), your own domain, a client-controlled DOI registration arrangement (subject to Crossref membership or sponsorship), and full data export on request. You can leave at any time with everything.
No indexing guarantees
Inclusion in DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, MEDLINE or any other database is decided solely by that database. We prepare, document and apply — we do not promise outcomes.
Before you choose a pillar
Tell us what is going wrong with the journal
Four minutes to fill in. A written assessment and per-item proposal within three business days. No call unless you ask for one.
Nothing above $2,000 is sold by self-checkout — those requests come back as a written proposal within 3 business days.