Find a journal you can afford
The median biomedical article processing charge is $3,140. It does not have to be. Of the 11,447 journals we track, 1,290 charge nothing to publish and 1,838 say they will waive the fee. Set your constraints below.
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Reading these numbers honestly
A low charge is not a quality signal and a high one is not a guarantee. What the charge tells you is what the publisher will invoice; everything that matters about whether the journal is right for your paper — scope, audience, review depth, indexing — sits elsewhere. Use this to build a shortlist you can afford, then read the journal pages.
Two caveats on the figures. Charges are list prices: many publishers have institutional agreements that reduce or remove them, so check whether your university has one before paying anything. And “time to publication” is self-reported by journals to DOAJ, covers acceptance to publication rather than your whole wait, and is available for 3,620 of the journals here.
Where a journal shows no charge, that is DOAJ recording no article processing charge. Some of those journals levy submission or page fees instead, which we flag on the journal page where DOAJ reports it.