A press built on integrity, openness, and independence
ABIEdu Academic Press is the scholarly publishing division of ABIEdu, established to publish peer-reviewed, open access journals that advance knowledge, innovation, and sustainable development worldwide.
Publisher overview
ABIEdu Academic Press publishes international, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journals across business, technology, education, sustainability, healthcare, public policy, and interdisciplinary studies. The Press operates journals.abiedu.com on Open Journal Systems (OJS), the open-source publishing platform developed by the Public Knowledge Project and used by thousands of scholarly journals worldwide.
We are a young press, and we say so plainly. Rather than borrowing credibility through vague claims, we earn it through published policies, verifiable practices, and honest status reporting — the same standards we would want as authors ourselves.
Vision
A world in which rigorous, ethical research is openly accessible to every scholar, practitioner, policymaker, and student — regardless of geography or means.
Mission
To support researchers, educators, professionals, and institutions through transparent and ethical publishing practices: rigorous double-anonymous peer review, open access without barriers, honest communication about our services, and sustained investment in editorial quality and digital preservation.
Core values
- Integrity — ethics-first decisions at every stage, aligned with COPE guidance.
- Transparency — public policies, disclosed statuses, and no unverifiable claims.
- Openness — open access, open infrastructure, open metadata.
- Inclusion — editorial boards, reviewers, and authors from all regions and career stages.
- Sustainability — responsible operations and a scholarly focus on sustainable development.
- Service — respectful, timely, constructive treatment of every author and reviewer.
Governance structure
The Press separates commercial management from editorial decision-making by design:
- Publisher (ABIEdu Academic Press management) — responsible for infrastructure, finances, legal compliance, journal portfolio strategy, and staff. The publisher does not take part in acceptance or rejection decisions on individual manuscripts.
- Editors-in-Chief and editorial boards — hold full and final authority over the scholarly content of their journals, including peer review, acceptance, and rejection.
- Publishing Ethics function — handles integrity concerns, appeals, and complaints through ethics@abiedu.com, following COPE-aligned procedures. Where a concern involves the publisher itself, it is escalated to independent academic advisers.
An international Advisory Board of senior academics is being constituted to oversee publishing standards across the portfolio; its membership will be published here once confirmed. We do not list names before individuals have formally accepted their roles in writing.
Editorial independence statement
Editorial decisions at ABIEdu Academic Press journals are made by academic editors on scholarly grounds alone. The publisher — including ABIEdu's ownership and management — does not influence, and has no right to overturn, editorial decisions on individual submissions. Payment of an article processing charge, or its waiver, has no bearing whatsoever on editorial outcomes, and editors are blinded to APC status during review.
Legal ownership and relationship with ABIEdu
ABIEdu Academic Press is the publishing division of ABIEdu (abiedu.com). Full legal entity details — registered name, jurisdiction of registration, and registered business address — are published on this page and in each journal's masthead. [Publisher action required: insert the registered legal entity name, company/registration number, and registered address here before launch. DOAJ and other services verify this information.]
Publishing leadership
The founding publishing team is listed with full names, affiliations, and roles once appointments are formalised. Editorial leadership for each journal appears on that journal's editorial board page. We deliberately do not display unconfirmed names or stock-photo profiles.
Publisher responsibilities
- Maintaining the publishing platform, security, and digital preservation arrangements.
- Registering ISSNs, DOIs, and depositing complete, accurate metadata.
- Safeguarding the integrity of the scholarly record, including corrections and retractions.
- Providing editors and reviewers with training, documentation, and support.
- Ensuring long-term access to published content, including in the event of journal discontinuation.
History and future direction
ABIEdu Academic Press was established in 2026 as the natural extension of ABIEdu's educational mission. Our first title, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Business, opens its inaugural call for papers at launch. Over the coming years we plan a small, carefully governed portfolio — we will add journals only when we can resource their editorial quality properly, and we will pursue indexing in DOAJ, Google Scholar, Crossref, OpenAlex, Dimensions, Scopus, and Web of Science step by step, in that realistic order, reporting progress openly.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
We actively seek editorial board members, reviewers, and authors from underrepresented regions, institutions, and groups. Our journals welcome research from and about the Global South, and our waiver policy ensures that inability to pay never prevents publication of sound research. We monitor and will report the geographic and gender diversity of our boards.
Sustainability commitment
As a digital-first press we minimise our environmental footprint: no print runs, green hosting where available, and remote-first operations. Editorially, sustainable development is a core theme across our portfolio, reflecting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Transparency statement: current status of our services
The table below is updated whenever a status changes. We distinguish clearly between planned, in progress, and active. We will never display an indexing badge, membership logo, or metric that we cannot verify.
| Service | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Open Journal Systems platform | In progress | Installation and configuration under way on journals.abiedu.com. |
| ISSN (JAISB) | Application in progress | Applied to the ISSN International Centre; number will be displayed once granted. |
| Crossref membership & DOIs | In progress | DOIs will be assigned from the first published article onward. |
| ORCID collection | In progress | Collected at submission via OJS; public API integration planned. |
| Google Scholar indexing | Planned | Follows automatically from correct OJS metadata after first articles publish. |
| DOAJ listing | Planned | Application will be filed once eligibility criteria are met (including a publication record). |
| OpenAlex / Dimensions coverage | Planned | Follows from Crossref metadata deposit. |
| Scopus / Web of Science | Planned — long term | Evaluation typically requires 2–3 years of consistent, citable publishing. We make no claim of acceptance. |
| COPE membership | Planned | Policies aligned with COPE guidance now; membership sought once eligible. We are not currently a COPE member. |
| Digital preservation (PKP PN) | Planned at launch | Enabled in OJS once the first issue is published. |
Contact details
General enquiries: journals@abiedu.com
Editorial office: editorial@abiedu.com
Ethics and integrity: ethics@abiedu.com
Technical support: support@abiedu.com
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