No Submission Fee

SFREMS does not charge any fee for manuscript submission.

Authors may submit manuscripts for editorial evaluation and double-blind peer review without payment.

All submissions are evaluated solely on the basis of:

Payment is never required for editorial assessment or peer review.

An Article Processing Charge (APC) becomes payable only after a manuscript has:

The APC supports services including, but not limited to:

The official Letter of Acceptance and the complete peer review report will be issued after the applicable Article Processing Charge (APC) has been paid. This policy has been implemented to address recurring cases in which manuscripts, although accepted after undergoing the full editorial and peer review process, are subsequently withdrawn or abandoned without proceeding to publication. Such practices consume significant editorial and reviewer resources, delay publication schedules, and reduce the efficiency of the journal's editorial operations. The APC is collected only after a manuscript has been accepted based solely on its scholarly merit and does not influence the editorial decision or the outcome of the peer review process.

Payment instructions will be provided only after the Editorial Office has issued a formal acceptance decision.

Payment of the APC does not guarantee publication.

Publication remains contingent upon the successful completion of all remaining editorial requirements, including:

No APC is charged for manuscripts that are:

Editorial decisions are made independently of financial considerations.

The APC has no influence on:

Editors, reviewers, and members of the Editorial Board evaluate manuscripts solely on their scholarly merit, originality, methodological quality, ethical compliance, and contribution to the advancement of knowledge.

The payment or non-payment of publication fees does not affect the editorial decision-making process.

SFREMS is committed to complete transparency regarding publication charges.

Unless otherwise announced, the journal does not charge additional fees for:

Should publication fees change in the future, revised fees will be announced on the journal website before implementation and will apply only to new submissions received after the effective date.

At present, SFREMS does not maintain a formal APC waiver or discount program.

Should a waiver or discount policy be introduced in the future, eligibility criteria, application procedures, and terms will be published transparently on the journal's website.

The availability or approval of any waiver or discount will not influence editorial decisions.

Because editorial and production services are performed after manuscript acceptance, APC payments are generally non-refundable once production has commenced.

Refund requests arising from exceptional circumstances will be evaluated individually by the Editorial Office in accordance with the journal's financial and publication policies.

The Sapientia Filipina: Review of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies (SFREMS) is committed to maintaining a fair, transparent, and sustainable publishing model that supports high-quality open-access scholarship. The APC enables the journal to provide rigorous editorial management, independent double-blind peer review, professional production services, long-term digital preservation, and unrestricted global access to scholarly research across education and multidisciplinary disciplines. Editorial decisions are made independently of financial considerations, ensuring that every manuscript is evaluated solely on its academic merit, originality, methodological rigor, ethical integrity, and contribution to scholarly knowledge. Through these principles, SFREMS promotes accessible, ethical, and internationally recognized scholarly publishing for researchers, educators, professionals, policymakers, and the global academic community.

This Article Processing Charge (APC) Policy has been developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles of publication ethics, transparency, editorial independence, and responsible open-access publishing and is aligned with:

SFREMS periodically reviews and updates this APC Policy to ensure continued alignment with evolving international standards for publication ethics, editorial transparency, open-access publishing, and responsible scholarly communication.