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Epidemics

Elsevier BV·Netherlands·ISSN 1755-4365

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableMedicine

Epidemics is published by Elsevier BV as an open access journal (ISSN 1755-4365). The list article processing charge is $2,730. Typical time to publication is 29 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 74. Primary field: Medicine. It is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Fee waivers are stated as available. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

$2,730

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

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Time to publication

29 wks

Slower than average; plan your timeline accordingly.

h-index

74

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

3.7

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Epidemics is listed at $2,730. The publisher also lists 2,550 EUR, 2,190 GBP, 338,600 JPY. 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 Epidemics, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has risen 37% since 2019, from $2,000 to $2,730.

$0$1.4k$2.9k2019: $2,00020192020: $2,00020202021: $2,46020212022: $2,72020222023: $2,86020232024: $2,86020242025: $2,7302025

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 (policy)
LicenceCC BY, CC BY-NC, 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
  • 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 Epidemics publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

COVID-19 epidemiological studiesInfluenza Virus Research StudiesAnimal Disease Management and EpidemiologyData-Driven Disease SurveillanceSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchViral Infections and Outbreaks ResearchZoonotic diseases and public healthViral Infections and VectorsMosquito-borne diseases and controlRespiratory viral infections research

Publication record

Indexed articles948
Total citations23,251
i10-index505
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2014
All ISSNs1755-4365, 1878-0067

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.