SCIRP offers extremely generous APC reductions to support authors
from Low- and Middle-Income
Countries. This scheme is free of any bureaucratic or administrative barriers.
To give this scheme a name and to refer to it in an easy way, SCIRP's APC
reduction scheme is called SCIRP's Open Access Publishing Fund (SOAPF). In fact
SCIRP is subsidizing authors by giving money back to them if compared to the
amount of SCIRP's regular APC.
Usually the first author of the paper will also be the corresponding
author. SCIRP will just look at the country of origin of this author and will
initiate the online invoice accordingly. In case the first author and the
corresponding author differ, APC reductions are determined for each author's
country of origin and the least favorable APC reduction is used. This is to
protect SCIRP from possible unfair exploitation of SOAPF.