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Elsevier publishes journal articles under two separate models to suit author preferences:

Subscription articles funded by payments for reading made by subscribing individuals or institutions

Open access articles funded by payments for publishing made by authors, their institution or funding bodies, commonly known as Article Publishing Charges (APCs)

We calculate pricing for each of these models separately. Subscription prices are set excluding open access articles; in other words, open access articles are not factored in when setting subscription prices. This fundamental principle is enshrined in our strict no double dipping policy (see below).

At Elsevier, we publish more articles and at higher quality relative to other major publishers, yet our average list price per subscription article remains lower (by 2-3 times) than that of others. Since 2010, the number of articles submitted to Elsevier journals grew by 11%, and the volume of subscription articles published increased by 5% (compound average growth rate 2010-2021). Our average list price per subscription article grew by just 0.2% over that time (2011-2021) across our entire portfolio of journals.

Journal article price

Average list price per subscription article Indexed weighted average of list prices for 2021 subscription year versus articles published in 2021 taking Elsevier as baseline (Source: Publisher websites, Scopus data)

Average list price per subscription article over time 5-year (2017-2021) and 10-year (2012-2021) compound annual growth rates (Source: Publisher websites, Scopus data)

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Frequently asked questions on pricing

What do fees pay for.

The fees that authors pay help to support the extensive work that goes into the editorial review, peer review and publishing process that ensures research is reliable and helps to accelerate progress for society

Our 2,700 journals enhance the record of scientific knowledge by applying high standards of quality in everything they publish and ensuring trusted research can be accessed, shared and built upon by others. In 2021, we received 2.5 million research papers from authors. These were carefully reviewed by our 2,000-strong in-house editorial teams in collaboration with 29,000 editors and 1.4 million expert reviewers around the world, resulting in over 600,000 articles being enhanced, indexed, published and promoted following a peer review.

Can you be more transparent in what you charge?

We are constantly striving to be more transparent in all aspects of what Elsevier does, including pricing. We try to support requests for information within the bounds of financial reporting requirements and competition rules.

How are we transparent for authors?

We provide the price of publishing gold open access on each journal homepage and in 

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During the publication process, we automatically notify authors who are entitled to free or discounted gold open access, for example where there is an agreement with their institution or funder

During the publication process, we automatically notify authors who are entitled to free or discounted gold open access because they are in a lower- or middle-income country — our APC waiver policy explains this process

How are we transparent for librarians?

We provide a range of information on our  website opens in new tab/window about our pricing competitiveness; how our pricing corresponds to quality; and publishing model uptake across subscription and open access

We publicly announce significant agreements, including our open access pilots

We provide  a list of our journal subscription prices

We describe the process we follow to calculate list prices

We describe the process to ensure  we do not double dip

We also show the number of articles that are published gold open access, and the number which are financed through subscriptions, on each journal homepage, to allow librarians to validate this

Do you double dip, i.e., charge for the same article twice?

We do not ‘double dip’. We can be reimbursed for an article in two ways — through an Article Publishing Charge (APC) to publish the article and make it available to read by everyone, or a subscription fee to pay for reading the article. We either charge for publishing an article or reading an article but we never charge for the same article twice. We have a strict no double-dipping policy.

How do you help authors who cannot afford to pay to be published?

As part of our commitment to inclusion and diversity in science, we believe it is critical to support researchers from low and middle-income countries to publish gold open access, if they wish to do so. When publishing in fully open access journals, we fully waive all open access charges for authors from 69 countries ( Group A opens in new tab/window ) and give a 50% discount for authors from 57 countries ( Group B opens in new tab/window ).

We offer a choice of journals with open access publishing charges ranging from $150 to $9,900. We will also consider requests for accommodations on a case by case basis for authors who are required to publish open access but do not have the financial means to do so. We provide high-quality subscription publishing options in our journals, so authors always have a choice of how they publish.

If more authors are publishing gold open access, why don’t you reduce your subscription fees?

Subscription fees are based on a range of factors, including the volume of subscription articles, the quality of a journal, journal usage and market and competitive considerations. When calculating subscription prices, we only take into account subscription articles; the number of articles published gold open access has no bearing on the way we set subscription fees.

We publish more articles and at higher quality relative to other major publishers, yet our average list price per subscription article remains lower (by 2-3 times) than that of others. Since 2010, the number of articles submitted to Elsevier journals grew by 11%, and the volume of subscription articles published increased by 5% (compound average growth rate 2010-2021). Our average list price per subscription article grew by just 0.2% over that time (2011-2021) across our entire portfolio.

See here for more information on Elsevier article volumes, value and quality.

Article Publishing Charges (APCs)

Irrespective of the publishing model chosen by the author, our goal is to ensure articles are published as quickly as possible, subject to appropriate quality controls, and widely disseminated.

Where an author has chosen to publish open access, which typically involves the payment of an article publishing charge (APC) by the author, their institution or funding body, we make their article freely available immediately upon publication on ScienceDirect in perpetuity with the author’s chosen user license attached to it.

Elsevier’s APCs are set on a per journal basis, fees range between approximately $200 and $10,400 US Dollars, excluding tax, with prices clearly displayed on our  APC price list opens in new tab/window  and on journal homepages.

Adjustments in Elsevier’s APCs are under regular review and are subject to change. We set APCs based on the following criteria which are applied to open access articles only:

Journal quality (as measured by journal quality Field Weighted Citation Impact Tier);

The journal’s editorial and technical processes;

Competitive considerations;

Market conditions;

Other revenue streams associated with the journal.

A small percentage of titles may support more than one APC, for example when a journal supports one or more article types that require different APCs.

We do not vary the APC prices for our proprietary journals based on the user license chosen by the author. However, we also publish journals on behalf of learned societies or other third parties that reserve the right to determine their own prices and pricing policies. Any deviations in pricing from Elsevier’s standard APC price list per journal will be clearly displayed on the journal’s homepage.

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Fee waivers to support researchers

Our goal is to effectively bridge the digital research divide and ensure that publishing in open access journals is accessible for authors in developing countries.

We grant waivers in cases of genuine need, therefore we automatically apply APC waivers or discounts to those articles in gold open access journals for which all author groups are based in a country eligible for the  Research4Life program opens in new tab/window . When publishing in fully open access journals, we fully waive all APCs for authors from 69 countries ( Group A opens in new tab/window ) and give a 50% discount for authors from 57 countries ( Group B opens in new tab/window ).

If an author group from a non-Research4Life country cannot afford the APC to publish an article in a gold open access journal and they can demonstrate they had no research funding, we will consider individual waiver requests on a case-by-case basis.

Our waiving policy does not apply to hybrid journals. Authors publishing in hybrid journals can publish under the subscription model at no cost and make use of the  Elsevier sharing policy .

For patients and caregivers , we will consider individual waiver requests on a case-by-case basis.

Open access agreements and funding body arrangements

Elsevier supports over 2,000 institutions globally to publish open access through transformative agreements .

We have established arrangements to help authors comply with the open access requirements of the major funding bodies and how they can be reimbursed for publication fees when publishing in Elsevier journals.

Reimbursement policy

To ensure Elsevier does not charge twice for the same article, we will fully refund an APC when alternative funding is provided for the open access article. For example, where an open access article is part of a Special Issue which is later made available in its entirety on an open access basis, such as through sponsorship by an organization, we will fully refund individual APCs paid by an author or on their behalf.

Elsevier will offer a credit for use against a future open access publication in the following circumstances:

A delay in delivering open access : When an article is not available open access on ScienceDirect by the time the issue in which the article is included is published in its final version, we will offer a credit for use against a future publication with Elsevier.

Incorrect licensing : When an article is made freely available on Science Direct in final published form but does not display the author’s chosen user license due to our error, we will offer a credit for use against a future publication with Elsevier.

No refund or credit will be offered in the following circumstances:

Article retraction or removal : Elsevier has provided publishing services. The later retraction or removal of the article is typically for reasons beyond our control, and does not detract from the publishing services provided, nor from our ongoing maintenance of the scientific record, e.g., corrections to the record.

Delays resulting from editorial decisions or author changes : These are a standard part of the publishing process.

License changes : Where an author requests a change to the user license they initially chose we will endeavor to respond to these within 5 working days.

Circumstances beyond our control : This may include, for example, where natural or other disasters prevent us from fulfilling our obligations.

Article unavailable on another platform : Elsevier’s responsibility is to ensure that the definitive published versions of articles we publish are available on ScienceDirect, or any successor platform, in ways that are accessible to all.  We provide APIs to enable third party platforms to manage this process themselves, for example to identify and pull gold open access articles or to update their platforms to reflect changes subsequently made to the article, such as author license choice changes, errata, and retractions. Elsevier is not responsible for ensuring third party repositories maintain accurate metadata and full-text.

Subscription prices

Elsevier publishes subscription articles whose publication is funded by payments that are made by subscribing individuals or institutions. Subscription prices are set independent of open access articles and open access articles are not included when calculating subscription prices. Subscription prices are calculated and adjusted based on the following criteria:

Article volume

Journal quality (as measured by journal quality Field Weighted Citation Impact Tier)

Journal usage

Editorial processes

Competitive considerations

Other revenue streams such as commercial contributions from advertising, reprints and supplements

These criteria are applied only to subscription articles, not to open access articles, when setting list prices. For specific information please see our  subscription price list for librarians and agents .

Purchasing options

Elsevier provides a range of purchasing options for subscription articles which are tailored for a wide variety of people. These include:

For libraries and institutions: 

There are a number of subscription options available which are tailored according to the specific customer situation and reflect a number of factors. For customers who purchase collections these considerations include competitive considerations, market conditions, the number of archival rights they purchase, and agreement specific factors like agreement length, currency and payment terms. Collection prices are adjusted on an annual basis, and any adjustment is based on factors including competitive considerations, market conditions, the number, quality, and usage of subscription articles published, and on technical features and platform capabilities. Open access articles are not included in these calculations. Please find more details on pricing .

Individuals:  Researchers who are not affiliated to an institution, or who would simply like convenient access to a title not available from their library, can take advantage of our personal access options. These options include credit card based transactional article sale and article rental.

Please find more information on our free and low-cost access programs .

No double dipping

Elsevier does not charge subscribers for open access articles; when calculating subscription prices, we only take into account subscription articles —  we do not double dip.

Concerns around double dipping are often premised on the expectation that open access articles are replacing the number of subscription articles being published and therefore that prices should be changing to correspond to this. See here for the latest  data on Elsevier article volume growth, value and quality opens in new tab/window .

List prices for journals that publish both open access and subscription articles

Adjustments in individual journal subscription list prices will be based only on criteria applied to  subscription articles . Open access articles will not be considered in the individual journal list price. Similarly, the APC per journal will only be determined based on the criteria applied to  open access articles .

Collections

As with journal list prices, collection prices reflect subscription articles only; they are linked to the prices of individual titles in a collection, which do not count open access articles when setting prices.

Retrospective open access

To ensure we uphold our no double dipping policy and separate calculations regarding list prices from open access articles, we do not offer authors the option to make a subscription article gold open access retrospectively after publication as a general rule.

However, we appreciate that there are sometimes exceptional circumstances and we want to assist authors where possible. In such instances, authors can make a subscription article, published in a hybrid journal, gold open access up until 31 January of the following year. For example, if the article is published in March 2022, the author can make it open access up until the 31 January 2023. This cut-off date is necessary to accurately assess the open access uptake in each individual hybrid journal for the previous year which ensures we do not charge subscribers for open access content. Please contact us to request retrospective open access or for further details opens in new tab/window .

Geographical Pricing for Open Access (GPOA) Pilot details

Elsevier is piloting a program from January 2024 to set APC prices for 143 gold open access journals according to the income level of the country of the corresponding author.

For these pilot journals we will waive the APC for corresponding authors who are based in low-income countries as classified by the World Bank as of July 2024. 

For articles whose corresponding authors are based in lower-middle-countries the geo-price will be 20 percent of the APC global list price. 

Corresponding authors based in upper-middle-income countries and where R&D intensity (domestic expenditure on R&D expressed as a percentage of GDP according to OECD) is below two percent are defined in three different groups based on GNI per capita and will see a different APC geo-price based on the GNI per capita of the country ranging from 45 percent to 90 percent of the APC list price.

GNI Per Capita

*Based on World Bank - 01 July 2024

Elsevier will use GNI per Capita ( Atlas Method) opens in new tab/window as the key indicator for determining the APC pricing tier. This is a widely used economic indicator provided by the World Bank and has proved to be a useful, easily available and annually updated indicator that is closely correlated with other, nonmonetary measures of the quality of life. The  Atlas  method, with three-year average exchange rates adjusted for inflation, lessens the effect of exchange rate fluctuations and abrupt changes.

The GPOA pilot methodology calculates discounts on the list APC as a percentage of the list price differently for each group of countries. To do this, we use the middle point of each group as a reference. This middle point is determined by comparing it to the starting threshold set for high-income countries by the World Bank.

Elsevier may grant additional waivers to countries where full waiver policies are currently in place for specific reasons, or in cases where Elsevier is unable to receive payments due to trade sanctions ( read more ). The article publishing charge that applies is automatically calculated as part of the submission process and will take this into consideration.  If you have any further questions, please contact researcher support.

Country Groups

Based on the most recent GDP per capita available (up to 2023) and the World Bank Country Groups for FY 2025, valid from the 1st of July 2024

View the list of participating journals

Publication fees for your manuscript

by Esther van de Vosse | May 20, 2020 | Publication , Publishing | 2 comments

Most scientific journals charge for publishing an article. There is currently a lot of discussion about these so-called publication fees because, among others, most journals subsequently also charge readers to access the publication. Some journals give everyone access to all articles (Open Access journals) or offer an Open Access option if the authors pay for it. What you pay for and how much is important to find out when selecting journals for your manuscript .

Why you have to pay publication fees

The fees you have to pay have traditionally been intended to cover the costs of, among others, the editors and the printed version of the journal. Especially color figures cost a lot to print. Many journals charge a separate contribution for this, often with the option to have the figures in the printed version of the journal shown in black and white so that you can avoid these costs. Because most people who have access to the printed version also have access to the online version where the figures appear in color, this is an attractive option. In addition to publication fees (often calculated per page), and fees for color figures, fees are sometimes even charged for supplementary data.

Apart from publication fees, some journals also charge a submission fee ranging from $ 50 to $ 125 to cover the cost of reviewing by editors and peer reviewers. Because a lot of time is spent on (obtaining) reviews of articles by editors and peer reviewers, and the majority of these articles are subsequently rejected, the publication fees can than be reduced. The number of submissions also decreases due to the submission fee, causing the time to make a decision to decrease as well.

How much are these publication fees

How much you have to pay for publication differs greatly per publisher, it is worthwhile – especially if you have a limited budget – to find this out before choosing a journal. Most journals list the amount in the ‘Information for authors’ section, or you can search for the Publication Fee or Article Processing Fee (APC). For some journals, this can be difficult to find.

Publication fees

• If only costs per article are charged, they range from $ 0 to $ 1500.
• If charged per page, these can range from $ 70 to $ 200 per page, with the price often increasing above a certain number of pages.
• Supplemental data charges typically range between $ 100 and $ 250 for the entire supplement.
• For color figures, you pay about $ 150 to $ 1000 per figure. However, some journals do not charge additional fees for color if the editor feels that the colors are essential.
• For some journals, if one of the authors is a member of the association that publishes the journal, they receive a discount on the publication costs, or they may publish an article for free one or more times a year. Authors from low- and middle-income countries can often receive a discount.

Open Access costs

It is attractive to publish an article in a journal with Open Access because there is a higher chance that others will read your article and – hopefully – reference it. Open Access is mandatory in some journals, and optional in others (Hybrid Open Access). The fee for publishing an article in an Open Access journal ranges from $ 1,500 to $ 5,000 (outlier: Cell $ 5,900). Note that the Open Access fee is sometimes charged on top of the publication fee… You can find most Open Access journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals .  

You can find links to the publication fees of some of the larger publishers here: Wiley , Elsevier , Springer , Taylor & Francis

It is important to know that various institutions (Universities, KNAW, NWO) have made agreements with a number of publishers so that you do not have to pay these Open Access fees (or not in full). It is worth checking this out, either through your institute or on the journal`s website.

I have 2 manuscripts would like to be published with charges in any site can you advice where i can find these sites

Hi Mohamed,

If you have written an article on a biomedical/medical subject you may want to select a journal with the help of this blog I wrote: https://www.evscienceconsultant.com/blog/journal-selection-medical-manuscript

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How much does it cost to publish an academic article?

I am interested to know the cost of publishing an academic article. I do not mean in the simple sense of "what does a given journal charge an author to publish?" or "what does an association or publisher charge a library for access to the journal?"

Instead, I want to know the actual costs of translating a manuscript into a final publication (for web or print). This matters for open science - and open access specifically - because there is an enormous amount of debate about the financing models for open access journals. The two dominant models are one where the end-user pays (library, reader, etc.), which is often seen as antithetical to open science, and one where the author pays a fee after manuscript acceptance. Neither the charges paid by libraries nor the charges paid by authors necessarily illustrate the true cost of publishing an article (due to "prestige", between-publisher variation, profit margins, journal bundling, discounts, etc.).

So, what is the actual cost? And what are components of that cost (e.g., copyediting, typesetting, server space and internet bandwidth, etc.)? In short, if an author (or someone else) were to express academic publishing costs on a per-article basis, what would that number be?

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Ubiquity Press breaks down their £300 ($500) APC as follows :

• 38% indirect costs for things not related to the publishing of a single paper but which are needed for the business (£114 or $190)
• 34% covers editorial and production aspects, which appears to be the costs associated with producing the paper, managing submissions, responding to authors, preparing proofs, typesetting, XML etc. (£102 or $170)
• 16% is a waiver premium charged so they can offer 0 or low APCs to people who genuinely cannot pay (£48 or $80)
• 8% is used to pay for indexing, archival (in case they go bust), DOI etc (£24 or $40)
• 4% goes towards costs of billing you and taking payment (£12 or $20)

Depending on what you consider to be the actual publishing costs (here probably the 34% editorial & production costs + 8% Indexing & Archiving) you would be looking at ~ £126 or $210.

Ubiquity don't break their indirect costs down into server/platform costs; this all goes into the 38% indirect cost column.

It depends to an extent on how technically-savvy the author community is, and thus what services they need or do not need to be done for them.

For computer science journals, the cost of production is extremely low because authors can typically be expected to do their own typesetting.

An efficient, peer-reviewed, top quality journal can thus be run at a cost of just $6.50 per paper. There is an excellent, detailed breakdown of this figure given by Stuart Shieber about the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) here .

The closest thing that I was aware of (before reading the other answers - thanks for these) was a report about SciELO. It states that, for Brazilian journals within their portfolio, it costs about USD 200-600 per article from submission via peer review and publication to dissemination and archiving.

It also gives a more detailed breakdown:

Considering the overall operation of the SciELO Brazilian collection, including the costs related to technical co-operation for the development and interoperation of the other national and thematic collections, the online up-to-date publication of the entire collection averages about US$90 per each new article. This estimate includes the actual publishing of the new article ($56 per article, or 62% of the total cost); the operation of the SciELO network portal ($4.20, or 5%), which provides access and retrieval to all of the collections, journals, and articles; SciELO governance, management, and technical co-operation ($2.90, or 3%); the development and maintenance of the technological platform ($22.70, or 25%); and the marketing, dissemination, and expansion of the network ($4.20, or 5%). Alternatively, if the complete editorial flow, from the reception of manuscripts, the peer-review process, editing, and the online SciELO publication, is taken into account, the total cost for each new SciELO Brazilian collection article is estimated to be between US$200 and $600.

I know this doesn't refer strictly to the final version of a paper, but the arXiv pre-print server provides a useful bit of information to contribute to this discussion. According to it's site , it receives around 76,000 publications per year. It's operating costs are on the order of $826,000 per year. You do the maths, and it comes to just over $10/article. This isn't with any of the bells and whistles that come with traditional publishing, but provides a nice baseline estimate of what it takes to publish a research article online.

It's an old article, but it is still worth a read:

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november98/11roes.html

TL;DR: with 5 papers per issue, the cost per paper is around 1000$, for a law journal.

By comment: the price is probably lower for fieds where authors are using latex or similar text processing tools.

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Can we earn money through a research publication?

Is there a way we can get money for our research paper? Do research journals pay us for a research paper? Or can we sell the research paper?

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• I've heard that people in some business schools get bonuses for the papers they publish, in addition to their salary. For an article in a good journal, it can be a four-digit amount. –  Federico Poloni Commented Jan 18, 2015 at 17:20
• You can win prizes for (more or less) outstanding papers, which comes close to earning money (compare top athletes who live from prize money instead of salary). –  Mark Commented Nov 19, 2017 at 12:54

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Certainly Yes. There are two ways of earning money from publication:

Indirect as @seteropere explains by improving your visibility and getting higher chance of being recruited in higher quality institute with higher payment.

Direct: In many academic or even industrial institutes, researchers are being paid and are bound to perform research and publish paper in certain journals or conferences (mostly journal). If they fail, either they will be fired or will be punished. In order to avoid such experience, many are hiddenly searching for an opportunity to buy a paper in high price. Moreover, there are some universities that pay incentive to publish in journals (like US$ 2000) for each paper published. For instance, I know several people at such universities that need to improve their world ranking via publication and hence pay good money to publish in high-quality journals. But, selling or buying paper is considered unethical because we believe research is something we cannot buy. If we can buy research, it will not be research and will be a project.

• 1 Punished! How? :) –  Sensebe Commented Nov 19, 2017 at 15:51
• 1 what if I have papers I want to sell? how can I enter this market? –  Forever Mozart Commented Nov 19, 2017 at 17:30

can we earn money through a research publication?

Certainly Yes .

Good publications make you a stronger candidate when apply to grants. It also help you in securing a job; if you do not have one. Also, collaborating with industry could be another way for earning money. Selling publication is something I never heard in my field (computer science). I do not even think it is possible in other fields.

If you are looking only for money then doing research is one of the bad choices you have.

• 1 My field is Computer Science.I am a masters student.I am also a software Engineer.I thought doing masters would increase my value in the industry.Like an MBA is more valuable than a BBA.Clearly MS can't increase my earnings :( –  zzzzz Commented Mar 18, 2013 at 10:37
• 5 @iOsBoy while in CS it is unlikely you will be able to "sell" your publications, graduate studies in CS can certainly be valuable, just like in business. –  StrongBad Commented Mar 18, 2013 at 10:52
• 1 While it's not expected of people that they sell papers, can they sell manuscripts if they are in dire need of money - with money back if it gets rejected? Would it be illegal? –  user13107 Commented Mar 18, 2013 at 11:33
• 2 @user13107 in the UK the REF is a nation wide assessment of the research outputs of universities that occurs every 5 or so years. Leading up to this universities "buy" publications all the time by offering the authors money to change jobs. This type of academic poaching happens and is just slightly less extreme than what you are suggesting. –  StrongBad Commented Mar 18, 2013 at 11:51
• 1 @user13107: There's nothing illegal about selling a manuscript, but buying or selling authorship would be unethical. If X is credibly accused of selling a manuscript to Y, who submitted it for publication with Y listed as an author, then it will severely damage X's career, because it will difficult to give an innocent explanation of what X thought Y was going to do with the manuscript. To the extent any manuscripts are sold, it is either with the greatest secrecy or by sellers who are outside of academia and don't worry about career consequences from accusations of unethical behavior. –  Anonymous Mathematician Commented Mar 18, 2013 at 15:22

I have never heard of a field where journals pay the authors for articles. In the humanities original research is often published as books and publishers will often pay, or at least provide a commission, for books.

In Germany, the "VG Wort" collects copyright fees put on copy machines, electronic library copies, etc., and redistributes these fees to authors.

Authors of research papers published in print can give note about their publications to the VG Wort and will then participate in the distribution of these fees. The calculation of what each author gets depends on the length of the articles and the number of authors, and in my experience one should expect a one-time payment of about 20 to 40 Euro per journal article.

• Is that €20–40 per article a one-time lump sum payment, a recurring annual payment, or the total sum of smaller annual payments? –  Psychonaut Commented Nov 17, 2017 at 16:47
• @Abra not sure about that, but if the proceedings of your conference are available in print at two or more German libraries, they may qualify. This is also a requirement for journals btw. –  silvado Commented Nov 19, 2017 at 22:47
• Oh wow. We've got the same system here in Austria, I got to look into this. 20€ isn't much but hey, 1-2 beers for the authors. –  user64845 Commented Nov 19, 2017 at 23:05

Also, Patents.

If you register your idea as a patent, then everybody who wants to use your idea has to pay to you. However, universities (companies) usually claim the intellectual property of the patents, which means the inventor does not get that much incentive out of a patent. It is an exception if you work independent or self employed. Also, you can negotiate with university to have keep the intellectual property of your invention or discoveries.

• re " negotiate "; any real examples? –  Pacerier Commented Oct 17, 2023 at 8:39

According to this Scholarly Open Access blog entry , the Journal of CENTRUM Cathedra: The Business and Economics Research Journal pays US$2500 for each paper published and also pays US$500 for each peer review. It also seems that the Journal of Information Ethics used to pay US$50 per article published.

• @Abra, thank you for your comment. It seems that the blog entry has been removed (and not just moved). The website of the Journal of CENTRUM Cathedra doesn't seem to mention any payments to authors or reviewers, so perhaps they changed their policy since I posted my answer. –  JRN Commented Nov 20, 2017 at 1:19

Certain types of papers can be supported by journals. These can include invited review articles, where the journal specifically seeks out the author to publish something on their field of expertise. The payments are usually minimal relative to the work required - on the order of US$300-500 - and are sometimes referred to as an "honorarium."

The key element here is that this money is paid because the journal specifically wants a paper from that author - presumably because they expect the work to be prestigious or highly cited.

This is by no means universal, but it has happened to me.

Yes. Through thesis or reasearch. For example the nasa discovers a new planet. Then after that some publishing companies will buy that article regarding that and it will spread throughout the world. Sorry for the bad english

• 3 This is not how academic publishing works and seems to be ignorant of the other answers. Do you have any example where this happened? –  Wrzlprmft ♦ Commented Nov 19, 2017 at 16:49
• Just an example. –  QueenCarmella08 Commented Nov 19, 2017 at 23:13
• Did you perhaps forget to add a link to your above comment (or your post)? –  Wrzlprmft ♦ Commented Nov 20, 2017 at 6:35

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I’m a paediatrician based in South Africa. Last year, my colleagues and I were invited to submit an editorial to a medical journal. We felt that the article, about medicine in resource-limited settings, should be published open access (OA) because it contains information that health-care workers and researchers in sub-Saharan Africa need access to. The problem is that the OA fee for that journal is US$1,000, which is more than most doctors earn per month in, say, Uganda. Now, we’re not sure whether we can move forward with the editorial. Are there any resources or funds available to authors in low-income countries to cover OA fees? — A paediatrician on a budget

Nature reached out to three researchers for tips on article processing charges (APCs). These fees can range from several hundred to thousands of dollars, and are requested by journals in return for making their articles OA — free for everyone to read.

According to a study published in 2023, the average fee for publishing an OA article is close to US$1,400 1 . OA fees can create significant barriers to publishing and sharing one’s work, especially for researchers based in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). For instance, among the top 40 journals in ecology, the average OA fee was $3,150, according to a 2021 study 2 . The authors described it as a hardship for African scholars, who typically do not receive grant funding and whose monthly salaries at the time of the study ranged from $365 to $2,300.

I’m worried I’ve been contacted by a predatory publisher — how do I find out?

Most scientific journals are transparent about their publishing fees, which are typically included in the author guidelines or stated on their website. “If a journal suddenly asks for payment” having not mentioned such a requirement initially, says Kit Magellan, an independent behavioural ecologist based in Siem Reap, Cambodia, “it is likely a predatory journal — run away!” Predatory journals present themselves as legitimate publications, but use the OA publishing model to dupe authors into paying them fees.

If the APCs for a legitimate journal are too steep for you to afford, there are multiple ways to tackle the cost. “The first thing to do is check in with your co-authors to see if they have any funds available,” says Magellan, because scientists might be eligible to have APCs covered by their grants or by funding organizations. If not, she recommends asking your institution if it provides researchers with financial support to publish OA.

Institutional support for APCs is highly variable, ranging from offering no funding to covering the full cost. “Processing fees can get prohibitively expensive,” says Thulani Makhalanyane, a microbial ecologist at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. “My institution will reimburse half the cost, but I still have to think about where the other half of that expense will come from.”

Both Magellan and Makhalanyane note that scientific societies often offer their members grants or financial support — separate from funding for day-to-day laboratory work — to pay for APCs. For example, in December 2023, the American Physical Society announced a partnership with the non-profit organization Research4Life to cover APCs for paper submissions from scientists in 100 LMICs. Since 2002, Research4Life has helped researchers at more than 11,500 institutions in 125 LMICs access peer-reviewed papers from over 200,000 journals and books. Other governmental partnerships and programmes, such as the European Commission’s Open Research Europe and the library partnership SCOAP , pay OA fees directly to publishers, to avoid publishers passing those costs on to authors.

Another option is to contact the journal you want to publish with, to see whether it can offer assistance or flexibility with APCs. When approaching a journal editor, Makhalanyane recommends being upfront and open about your budget. “Tell the editor you’d like to submit your paper to their journal because you think it’s a good fit, but that you can’t afford the fee,” he says. As a journal editor himself, Makhalanyane receives several OA fee waivers from the publisher each year that he can offer to researchers. “Most of these vouchers are never taken,” he adds.

Springer Nature was asked whether it provides assistance with APCs for researchers in LMICs. (Springer Nature publishes Nature , but the magazine’s careers team is editorially independent of its publisher.) “Enabling open-access equity remains a key part of our focus,” said a spokesperson, who made reference to the publisher’s waiver policy for fully OA journals, Transformative Agreements and partnerships with organizations such as Research4Life .

The spokesperson also noted that the company has an initiative for Nature and the Nature research journals that means that accepted papers by authors from more than 70 LMICs are published at no cost to them . Finally, a tiered-pricing pilot adjusts the APC on the basis of the lead author’s country of residence, the spokesperson said.

Other researchers who want to pursue the OA route wait until their paper is close to publication before approaching an editor about the cost. “I don’t consider budget issues when I submit papers,” says Noam Shomron, a genomicist and computational biologist at Tel Aviv University in Israel. The peer-review and publication process can span months to a year or longer, and researchers’ budgets can fluctuate drastically over that period, he explains. “If I’m running out of funding at the time, I just tell the publication I don’t have the money. Very often they give me a 10% or 20% discount, which is nice.” Even if a discount isn’t possible, Shomron says that journals might defer payment for a year or two.

Magellan, who also has experience as a journal editor, emphasizes that vouchers and fee waivers are meant for exceptional circumstances, in which the author lacks access to funding to cover APCs. For those who are paying the standard charges, she is keen to see more-flexible payment plans from publishers. “It would be good for journals to allow authors to pay in instalments so the APC vouchers can remain available for the people who really need it,” she says.

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“The recent proliferation of online fee-paying journals seems to sometimes result in the perception that you have to pay to publish,” says Magellan. But researchers who can’t afford OA fees can still publish their work for free in many scientific journals, with the caveat that their articles might be hidden behind a paywall. “You can still share your article with colleagues in the field, use it in presentations and cite it; it just can’t be freely accessed,” she says. However, researchers at eligible institutions in LMICs can access paywalled papers through resources such as Hinari, a branch of Research4Life that provides access to thousands of medical and health journals.

“Submissions that come from the parts of the world where researchers can’t afford to publish are usually such a minor fraction of the papers that end up being published,” says Makhalanyane. “I would encourage people who want to publish and genuinely cannot afford the APCs to ask for vouchers. The fees shouldn’t stop you from showcasing your science in the best journals you can.”

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Publication Plays an important role in every researcher’s carrier. if you are a Ph.D. student or doing your master’s or bachelor’s, then as per the University norms, you need to publish your research paper in a good journal. Here in this article, we are going to discuss How much does it cost to publish a paper in a journal .

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The subscription-based model is a very old model and many publishers adopted this for many years now. But the Open access model is new to the world and becoming popular very rapidly.

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Gold open access

According to Elsevier in this model of publication, the journal article will be freely available for everyone after publication. The publishing costs are covered by the author or by their institution/funding body/society on their behalf, typically in the form of an Article Publishing Charge (APC) or other types of fees.

Elsevier’s APCs range between   $150 and c$6000 US Dollars excluding tax, depending on the journal, with prices clearly displayed on the Article Publishing Charge (APC) price list and on journal homepages. Other than these journals you can find journals that charge between 20 USD and to 200USD if it’s a Peer review journals.

Other Publishers like Springer nature, Willey, IEEE, and Hindawi also followed the same.

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Green open access

In this model, the authors do not need to pay any additional charges for the publication. The publication costs are covered by subscriptions. The reader will pay when he/she wants to download the paper and read it.

Refer to Elsevier Open access policy here

Check here the Springer’s Open access policy here

IEEE Publication charges

Here is the tentative cost to publish a paper in a journal

SCI Indexed Journal: 500USd to 6000USD per article

Scopus Indexed Journal: 200USD to 1500USD per article

Web of Science Indexed Journal: 200USD to 1500USD per article

ABDC Indexed Journal: 200USD to 1000USD per article

Peer reviewed and Google Scholar Indexed Journals: 20 USD to 300USD per article

UGC Care(for India only-Group-1)listed Journal: 50USD to 300USD per article

Other reputed Indexing like Pubmed, IJIFACTOR, GARUDA, DOAJ, EI Compemdex, CNIK Indexed Journal: 100USD to 1000USD per article.

Why is open access so expensive?

Because of the Publication cost, Open access journals are expensive. But it’s now it is widely accepted that the Open access journal is the future of the publication . The researchers love to read the journal article available freely and cite them.

What is the problem with open access?

Generally, people consider the journals which charge APC from authors during publication are fake journals or predatory journals. But that is not true people should understand that the journals that are publishing their papers need some source of income to sustain the journal and to maintain the journal quality.

As here the author needs to pay before publication some people think it’s easy to pay and publish. But it’s not true.  There might be some predatory journals that take money to publish but most Journal publishers follow the Global standard of Journal publication. You need to find good journals to publish your research paper.

To know more about the publication fees of any organization and institution one should always visit the website of that organization.

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Is it good to publish in open-access journals?

Absolutely yes!! As we discussed earlier in this article the researchers love to read the articles which available freely. So, the chance of getting a higher impact on your paper after publication. Most reputed Journal publishers are now having Gold open-access Journal publications. This means they charge APC from the author to get the paper published.

Here is the list you can check

• Elsevier: https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/open-access-journals
• Springer Nature: https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/journals-books
• Willey:   https://authorservices.wiley.com/open-research/open-access/browse-journals.html
• Frontiersin : https://www.frontiersin.org/
• MDPI: https://www.mdpi.com/
• Cambridge: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/open-access
• Hindawi : https://www.hindawi.com/journals/
• IEEE: https://open.ieee.org

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How much does it cost to publish a paper in a journal

July 28, 2021

Research scholars pursuing master’s or doctorates degree have to publish their research work in some reputed international journal. But most scholars have no funds from college or universities to complete their degree work, hence worried for How much does it cost to publish a paper in a journal. To resolve such doubts this article help to understand few of below question-related to the publication.

How much does it cost to publish a research paper in India ?

Normal International journals cost 1000 to 2500 Rs, as per indexing journal charges get increases to 10,000Rs to 25,000 Rs. Although some journals are free but publishing a paper for beginners is tough.

Cost of publishing a research paper in India ?

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Paper publication charges.

So cost of publication range from zero rupees to 30,000 Rs as per indexing of sites.

How much does it cost to submit a paper to a journal?

Submitting a paper in almost all journals is free, but some journals charge nominal fees of 300Rs to 1500Rs. Paid submission journals just wants to restrict authors to submit good content only.

How much does it cost to publish a paper?

Publishing a paper includes publication charges or article processing charges, certificate charges (if applicable), hard copy charges (Optional), formatting or language improvement charges. So the sum of all types of charges is the total cost of the paper publication.

How much does it cost to publish a research paper?

Publishing a research paper or review paper is not vary. It totally depends on where you want to publish a paper.

How much does it cost to publish a scientific paper?

Any kind of research material has some comparison in terms of a scientific paper, publication of such kind of content is also depend on publisher policy. The cost normally varies from zero USD to 2200 USD.

I hope this article help scholar to answers of how much it cost to publish a research paper in the journal, before submitting a paper consult your guide/mentor so his experience helps you to get the good publication in less price and time. Scholars should prepare a good paper with abstract having clear understanding of work with conclusion showing output of paper or research. People need low publication journal can directly submit paper at [email protected].

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