BiomedicalPublications

BMC Digital Health

·ISSN 2731-684X

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableHealth Professions

Cost to publish

$2,090

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Time to publication

8 wks

Fast for a peer-reviewed journal — check what review depth that implies.

h-index

17

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

3.8

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in BMC Digital Health is listed at $2,090. The publisher also lists 1,690 EUR, 1,390 GBP. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

The journal's own fee page →

What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in BMC Digital Health, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has risen 11% since 2023, from $1,890 to $2,090.

$0$1k$2.1k2023: $1,89020232024: $1,99020242025: $2,0902025

Publishers change list prices without notice and often apply discounts, institutional agreements or waivers. Treat this as the trend, and confirm the current figure with the journal.

Peer review and licensing

Review modelAnonymous peer review, Open peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY, CC BY-NC-ND
Author keeps copyrightNo
Plagiarism screeningYes
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

8 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredAnonymous peer review, Open peer review
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects BMC Digital Health publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsDigital Mental Health InterventionsTelemedicine and Telehealth ImplementationElectronic Health Records SystemsArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationPhysical Activity and HealthHealth Literacy and Information AccessibilityStroke Rehabilitation and RecoveryTechnology Use by Older AdultsICT in Developing Communities

Publication record

Indexed articles292
Total citations1,449
i10-index39
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2023
All ISSNs2731-684X

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.