To encourage research in these areas and support the researchers, ERSA commits to the following:

1. Working Paper Review Process:

• ERSA is committed to providing timely and valuable feedback to authors through its network of reviewers. Feedback will be aimed at identifying technical mistakes, logical inconsistencies, gaps, and areas of improvement to improve the quality of the research.

2. Financial Incentive:

• R10 000 upon acceptance into ERSA’s Working Paper Series and providing an accompanying policy brief or executive summary of the paper.
• An additional amount when an ERSA working paper is published in a journal upon the submission of proof of publication:
  • ISI ranked journal: 101 – 200 @ R10 000
  • ISI ranked journal: 31 – 100 @ R40 000
  • ISI ranked journal: Top 30 @ R70 000

3. Audience:

• For papers of particularly high quality and policy relevance, ERSA will facilitate engagements with policymakers on the insights the research produces. Additionally, each paper published in our Working Paper Series will be allocated a Digital Object Identifiers (DOI), which will make the research available to a wider online audience, and allow the author to track the use of their articles across repositories.