This page shows the bylaws to apply for fees/incentives at the Research & Initiatives Center at Prince Sultan University for the academic year from Jan 1st, 2022 until 31st Dec 2022, based on MEMO Referenced: "1st Sem2021/2022-IOM/AY-A071", Dated Sep 8, 2021.
Open-access journals are scientific journals that publish papers with processing fees, after the acceptance of the paper. The benefit of publishing in open access journals is that accepted papers will be made publically available, which increases their chances of being downloaded and cited. Another benefit is that the time spent to review a paper is much smaller than for classical closed-access journals. Several journals are now adopting the open-access strategy. Encouraging open-access publications of quality journal papers in Prince Sultan University certainly speeds-up the number of publications of PSU and their impacts. Thus, Prince Sultan University supports the fees of open access journals, in particular those with Q1 and Q2 ranks.
It is important to be cautious from fake and non-eligible journals & publishers, which aim only at getting money without having any scientific values. These are a few rules to follow to avoid being trapped into a fake open-access journal submissions.
In case you have a doubt with any journal whether it will be supported by PSU or not, please contact your College Research Director to ask in advance.
In what follows, we provide updates for the bylaws based on RIC feedback for the year 2021. All the following updates will be applied for any journal paper whose acceptance date is from 1st of January 2022 until 31st December 2022, even if the paper was submitted in 2021.
For the year of 2022, the incentives amount per Quartile remains as is.
To encourage the local collaboration two or more PSU authors, the full incentive’s amount will be given. However, in case of external collaboration where only ONE PSU author has contributed to the published work, a percentage of the incentive’s amount will be given as illustrated below:
The full incentive's amount will be given and distributed only among PSU authors.
In case of external collaboration where only ONE PSU author has contributed to the published paper a percentage is given as follows:
The incentives scale for ISI and SCOPUS for 2022 are as follows:
Ranking/Qs | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
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ISI | 7000 | 6000 | 3000 | 2000 |
SCOPUS | 6000 | 5000 | 2000 | 1000 |
2000 SAR incentives are added for the top 1% journals (ISI Impact
Factor is higher than or equal to 30) and 1000 SAR for the top 10% (ISI
Imapact Factor higher than or equal to 10) |
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The ceiling of incentives is 52,500 SAR per faculty member |
Furthermore, the incentive amounts of Scopus-only publications will be subject to a rate based on the H-Index of the journal as illustrated in this table.
H-Index | % of Incentives* |
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0-10 | 79% |
11-20 | 82% |
21-30 | 86% |
31-40 | 90% |
41-49 | 95% |
50 and above | 100% |
The H-Index of the journals can be found on Scimago Journal & Country Rank
* If the journal is indexed in ISI, then it will be counted as 100%.
Extra incentives on Pure Research Labs publications
To encourage publications produced within the PSU research labs, we allocate 25% extra amount to be added to the deserved incentives based on current bylaws for any publication being produced by the members of a research lab.
A publication is considered as being produced by a research lab, if it satisfies all the three conditions as the following:
Order of the new incentives’ rules:
The order of applying the above-mentioned rules for the deserved incentives amount are as follows:
All these calculations are automated for any publications.
Regarding the payment of publication fees, the University strives to process all the requests as soon as possible. We would like to attract the attention of the faculty members that for the refund of publication fees in 2022, it is important to respect the following guidelines:
After reaching the ceiling of 50,000 SAR, it is possible to extend it to 60,000 SAR if satisfies one of the following:
PSU acknowledgement is part of recognizing the efforts made by PSU in funding the research either with fees, incentives or seed grants.
Please find the suggested statements for different cases of publications at RIC website.
It is important to respect the ethical considerations of publications. For more information, refere to research ethics at RIC website
Admin staff can apply for fees and incentives at maximum 50% of the ceilings of faculty members.
All other rules approved in 2021 remain the same for 2022, unless otherwise specified.
In what follows, we provide updates for the bylaws based on RIC feedback for the year 2022. All the following updates will be applied for any journal paper whose acceptance date is from 1st of January 2023 until 31st December 2023, even if the paper was submitted in 2022.
For the year of 2023, the incentives amount per Quartile remains as it is.
To further encourage the local collaboration of two or more PSU authors, the full incentive’s amount will be given. However, in the case of external collaboration where only ONE PSU author has contributed to the published work, a percentage of the incentive’s amount will be given as illustrated below:
The full incentive's amount will be given and distributed only among PSU authors.
In case of external collaboration where only ONE PSU author has contributed to the published paper, a percentage is given as follows:
The incentives scale for ISI and SCOPUS for 2023 are as follows:
Ranking/Qs | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
---|---|---|---|---|
ISI | 7000 | 6000 | 3000 | 2000 |
SCOPUS | 6000 | 5000 | 2000 | 1000 |
2000 SAR incentives are added for the top 1% journals (ISI Impact
Factor is higher than or equal to 30) and 1000 SAR for the top 10% (ISI
Imapact Factor higher than or equal to 10) |
||||
The ceiling of incentives is 55,000 SAR per faculty member |
Furthermore, the incentive amounts of Scopus-only publications will be subject to a rate based on the H-Index of the journal as illustrated in this table.
H-Index | % of Incentives* |
---|---|
0-10 | 79% |
11-20 | 82% |
21-30 | 86% |
31-40 | 90% |
41-49 | 95% |
50 and above | 100% |
The H-Index of the journals can be found on Scimago Journal & Country Rank
* If the journal is indexed in ISI, then it will be counted as 100%.
Extra incentives on Pure Research Labs publications
To encourage publications produced within the PSU research labs, we allocate 50% extra amount to be added to the deserved incentives based on current bylaws for any publication being produced by the members of a research lab. The maximum incentive amount received by any PSU author does not exceed 4,500 SAR, regardless of the number of authors.
A publication is considered as being produced by a research lab, if it satisfies all the three conditions as the following:
Order of the new incentives’ rules:
The order of applying the above-mentioned rules for the deserved incentives amount are as follows:
All these calculations are automated for any publications.
Regarding the payment of publication fees, the University strives to process all the requests as soon as possible. We would like to attract the attention of the faculty members that for the refund of publication fees in 2023, it is important to respect the following guidelines:
After reaching the ceiling of 50,000 SAR, it is possible to extend it to 60,000 SAR if satisfies one of the following:
Regarding the rule of the requirement of citing 3-4 relevant publications in each paper ,his rule aims at increasing the exposure of PSU research work and increasing the total number of PSU citations . It is important to note:
Regarding the 40 % of PSU faculty members required to be eligible for publication fees , the following applies:
PSU acknowledgement is part of recognizing the efforts made by PSU in funding the research either with fees, incentives or seed grants.
Please find the suggested statements for different cases of publications at RIC website.
It is required to make an acknowledgment to PSU in any publication to be eligible for incentives and fees.
It is important to respect the ethical considerations of publications. For more information, refere to research ethics at RIC website
Admin staff can apply for fees and incentives at maximum 30% of the ceilings of faculty members.
All other rules approved in 2022 remain the same for 2023, unless otherwise specified.
How to search and know PSU relevant papers to be cited. Here are some ways to do so:
When a faculty member has a paper published ONLINE in an open access journal, he applies for a refund of the publication incentives (and fees if any). The process for receiving the publication fees and incentives is the same.
The following process will occur monthly. In the last week of every month, RIC sends a reminder to all faculty members to submit their new publications for receiving incentives and publication fees.
In the last day of the month, RIC processes all the requests and submits them to the office of the vice-rector of financial affairs within one week.
The process is presented below, for the faculty member, the College Research Director, and RIC.
For every new publication, perform the following actions:
This is needed for statistical purposes. RIC verifies that there is one input of the paper in this dataset before processing the request. If there is no entry, the processing of the request for the corresponding paper will be delayed until the data is entered.
Also, only one PSU author should enter the information of the paper in this form.
It must show the authors names, title of the published paper, and the journal title.
The invoice must be made at the name of the authors receiving the refund.
You can find a sample of requested evidence that must be included in every fee/incentives request. download sample
Only one PSU author can claim for publication fees. The concerned author must submit an invoice of the publication fees with his name, without which publication fees cannot be refunded.