Frequently Asked Questions

Our journals cover the academic spectrum — theology, religious studies, psychology, education, business & management, and mathematics — and our preprint and working-paper repository accepts work by discipline across the social sciences and beyond. If a submission sits outside these areas, we’ll say so — and declining it costs you nothing.

Not blind peer review in the formal academic sense — we say this plainly rather than imply something we don’t do. Every submission is read and judged by a named editor with real subject-matter authority, who can accept, request revisions, or decline. The editor’s name is published on the paper itself, so the review is attributable, not anonymous.

Accepted work carries a one-time publication fee — 20,000 FCFA for reviewed articles, 5,000 FCFA for preprints and working papers — invoiced only after an editor has accepted your work, never before review. It covers the editor’s time reviewing the work and the ongoing cost of hosting it with a permanent URL and full citation metadata. Work that has already been published elsewhere — in a journal, conference proceedings, or an institutional repository — is indexed here at no charge, since no new review or long-term hosting commitment is required.

No. Submitting is completely free, and a submission that is revised or declined costs you nothing — you’ll never be asked to pay before a decision. The fee only applies once an editor has accepted your work for publication, and paying it doesn’t change the review outcome in either direction: an editor’s decision is made on the work, not on the invoice.

It varies by editor workload and the complexity of the paper. We don’t publish a fixed turnaround time because we’d rather under-promise than set an expectation an editor can’t meet — if you haven’t heard back within a reasonable window, you’re welcome to follow up.

Working papers and preprints are welcome, and we say so on your paper’s page — we don’t misrepresent a preprint as a peer-reviewed journal article. If the same paper is later formally published elsewhere, let us know and we’ll update the record to point to it.

Evans Consulting Publications is built and operated independently by Evans Kongnyuy. See the About page for how it’s structured, and the Editorial Board page for who has editorial authority over which discipline.

Use the Submit Your Work page. You’ll need the full text of the paper, author names and affiliations, an abstract, and — if it’s already been published — a link or DOI to the original source.