Free publication fee campaign for young scientists in Microbes and Environments (M&E)

M&E launches “Free publication fee “campaign to support the young scientists who love our journal and did great jobs. If you figure out that you are the candidates of campaign ‘free publication fee in M&E’, please let the editorial office know after your acceptance in M&E.

1. Winner of Most Valuable Paper (MVP) of The Year in M&E. M&E editorial board select MVP of The Year for every year that is awarded in the annual meeting of Japan Society of Microbial Ecology. The awardee should be the first author or the author equally contributed to the first author of the MVP. The winner can publish two accepted papers as the first author or the author equally contributed to the first author in the next 5 years after the MVP award without publication fee.
2. Get Two, One More Freeeeeeeeee. The authors who accepted three papers including 2 papers accepted as the first author (or the author equally contributed to the first author) in the recent two years. The third paper accepted as the first author (or the author equally contributed to the first author) should be published without publication fee. If the third paper is accepted as the contributed authors, the next paper accepted as the first author (or the author equally contributed to the first author) in the next 2 years should be published without publication fee.

Note: M&E usually charges publication fee to the corresponding author but not to the first author. The campaign will continue until the financial state of M&E becomes terrible due to the silly Editor-In-Chief.