Built for societies, university presses, research institutes and independent publishers. Every plan includes the smart .docx submission flow, peer review, and a public journal site — try any tier free for 14 days.
For a single early-career or society journal launching online.
or $2,990/yr • per journal
Start 14-day trialFor active society & institutional journals.
or $7,990/yr • per journal
Buy GrowthFor learned societies, university presses & research institutes.
or $14,990/yr • per workspace
Buy ScaleFor national academies, ministries & global publishers.
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Contact usPrices in USD. EU customers will see VAT calculated at checkout. Annual plans are billed up-front and save ~17% vs monthly.
| Feature | Starter | Growth | Scale | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Submission & review | ||||
Smart .docx submission intake AI-guided author submission with metadata auto-fill and validation before the manuscript enters editorial review. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Single- & double-blind peer review Configurable review modes with anonymized correspondence and reviewer-tracking. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Editor dashboard & decision letters Editorial workspace with stage views, decision templates and email automations. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Open & post-publication review Open reviewer identities, signed reviews and post-publication commentary. | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
AI reviewer recommender Similar-paper matching, conflict-of-interest checks and reviewer availability scoring. | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Plagiarism detection (iThenticate) Similarity reports surfaced before peer review begins. | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Custom editorial workflows Approval chains, conditional routing and ABAC-driven policy enforcement. | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Identity & metadata | ||||
ORCID author lookup Authenticate authors and pre-fill profiles via the ORCID registry. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
CrossRef DOI minting & Crossmark Mint and update DOIs from the editorial workflow with Crossmark integrity stamping. | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
ROR & Open Funder Registry Affiliation and funder identifiers wired into submission and indexing. | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publishing & distribution | ||||
Branded journal site on subdomain Public site at <yourjournal>.publicator.org with issues, archive and editorial board pages. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Custom domain & white-label Bring your own domain with TLS provisioning and remove Publicator branding. | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Production & typesetting JATS-XML, PDF and HTML galley production with copy-edit and proof rounds. | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
Issue assembly & special-issue calls Volume/issue assembly, special-issue calls and section curation. | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
Guest editor portals Self-service portals for guest editors to manage special-issue submissions. | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
PubMed / DOAJ / Scopus deposits Automated deposit pipelines to major indexes. | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Payments & access | ||||
APC & membership payments (Stripe) Article-processing charges, waivers, discount codes and member pricing via Stripe. | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Subscription & paywall access Subscription management, IP-range and federated access controls. | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Compliance & deployment | ||||
JATS / CSV / archive exports One-click exports of submissions, reviews and decisions in JATS XML, CSV and full-archive ZIP. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
COUNTER R5 reports & SUSHI Standards-compliant usage statistics for libraries and consortia. | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
SAML SSO (Okta, Azure AD, Shibboleth) Enterprise identity providers including InCommon and eduGAIN federations. | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
Single-tenant deployment Dedicated infrastructure isolated from other customers. | — | — | — | ✓ |
Data residency (EU / US / IN / custom) Pin data storage and processing to a specific region. | — | — | — | ✓ |
SOC 2 Type II & ISO 27001 evidence Compliance evidence package, vendor questionnaires and reports. | — | — | — | ✓ |
On-prem / VPC / air-gapped Deploy to your own VPC, on-prem hardware or air-gapped environments. | — | — | — | ✓ |
Tamper-evident audit logs Cryptographically-chained audit trail with export and SIEM forwarding. | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Support & success | ||||
24×7 named SRE & SLA A named site-reliability engineer, 24×7 paging and contractual SLAs. | — | — | — | ✓ |
White-glove migration Assisted migration from OJS, ScholarOne and Editorial Manager. | — | — | — | ✓ |
Yes — registered non-profits, learned societies, university presses and titles indexed in DOAJ qualify for 30% off the Growth and Scale plans. Reach out from your institutional email to apply.
A submission is counted once when the author completes step 2 (Review & submit). Resubmissions, revisions, and editorial decisions never re-count against your quota.
Yes. Upgrades take effect immediately and are pro-rated. Downgrades apply on your next renewal so your team keeps every feature for the period you already paid for.
All major credit cards, ACH, SEPA, and wire transfers via Stripe. Enterprise customers can be invoiced annually with NET 30 terms.
Always. Every plan includes one-click JATS, CSV, and full-archive ZIP exports of your journals, submissions, reviews, and decisions.
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