FAQs
1. What is RIPK?
Answer: RIPK is the abridged form of ” Research Institute for Progression of Knowledge” which is an international research organization.
2. What does RIPK do?
Answer: RIPK conducts and finances research projects on contemporary issues, provides the scholarship to poor and meritorious students, exploring creativity through business plan competition, provides training on research areas, arranges national and international seminars and work-shops and publishes the research papers through international journals.
3. What is the nature of RIPK organization?
Answer: Research Institute for Progression of Knowledge (RIPK) is a non-profit research based organization.
4. Does RIPK publish journals?
Answer: Yes. RIPK publishes the quality research papers through the international journals. The journals follow double blind peer review policy.
5. What are the names of the RIPK journals?
Answer: International Journal of Education and Social Science (IJESS), International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Review (IJHSSR), Global Journal of Economics and Finance (GJEF) and International Journal of Research in Business and Management (IJRBM)
6. Does RIPK conduct research?
Answer: Yes. RIPK conducts researches on contemporary issues throughout the world.
7. How do I submit a manuscript to RIPK?
Answer: Please see the Call for papers
8. What titles do you publish?
Answer: RIPK publishes original articles in diverse fields. Our series of broad-based journals includes: Arts, Humanities, Business, Social Work, Social Science, Public Policy, Applied Social Science, Education, Agriculture, Technology, and Applied Science and so on.
9. How quickly are articles published?
Answer: We understand that authors wish to see their articles published as quickly as possible, and for this reason, we publish the author accepted version of the manuscript-usually within 7 days for all of our journals. Authors also value high standards in copy editing, proofing, and final presentation, and we aim to publish the Version of Record as quickly as possible whilst providing a quality production service.
10. Is the Research Institute for Progression of Knowledge an organization funded by the government or the public?
Answer: No. The Research Institute for Progression of Knowledge is a private organization and does not receive funds from the government or the public.
11: How does the Research Institute for Progression of Knowledge conduct research?
Answer: The Research Institute for Progression of Knowledge does not hire scientists or researchers to conduct research. However, we provide funds to the existing research projects at universities and research institutions.
12: Can you waive or reduce the fee/charge?
Answer: We charge authors a fee for each article they publish. This fee helps the open-access journals to cover their operational expenses. To avoid confusion and ensure fairness among customers, we do not waive or reduce fees/charges to anyone, including the editorial board member and the author of the special issue.
13: How do you use the fee/charge from authors?
Answer: As an open-access publisher, RIPK charges a fee/charge to cover the publication costs, which covers but is not limited to the following:
• Printing
• Mailing (two copies of printed journals will be sent to the corresponding author after published, free of charge)
• DOI fee (We assign a DOI name to each article)
• Maintenance fee (article online hosting and backup)
• Labor costs (Call for papers, author services, managing peer-review, editing, publishing, and other direct works)
• Banking service
• Marketing and advertisement
