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This journal is published two times a year in March and September by Ainosco Press(Airiti).

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The Higher Citation Impact of open access articles results from their high publicity and availability. Open access publications are demonstrably more frequently cited [1,2].

Lower Publishing Costs: Open access publishers cover their costs for editorial handling and editing of a paper by charging authors' institutes or research funding agencies. The cost of handling and producing an article is covered through the one-time payment of an article processing charge (APC) for each accepted article. The APCs of open access publishers are only a fraction of the average income per paper earned by traditional, subscription-based publishers.

Faster Publication in APJP's open access journals is achieved by online-only availability. Accepted articles are typically published online more rapidly in APJP journals than those of traditional, subscription-based and printed journals are [3].

1. Open access citation impact advantage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access#Authors_and_researchers . For example, a standard research paper "Shutalev, A.D.; Kishko, E.A.; Sivova, N.V.; Kuznetsov, A.Y. Molecules 1998, 3, 100-106" has been cited 51 times, the highest number among all the papers published so far by the same author.


2. Lin, S.-K. Editorial: Non-Open Access and Its Adverse Impact on
   Molecules. Molecules 2007, 12, 1436-1437 (PDF format 16 K, HTML format).


3. Some well written papers have been peer reviewed and published in less than two weeks from manuscript submission.