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Science Advances

American Association for the Advancement of Science·United States·ISSN 2375-2548

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Science Advances is published by Browse by publisher as an open access journal (ISSN 2375-2548). The list article processing charge is $4,500. Typical time to publication is 33 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 378. Primary field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. 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

$4,500

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

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Time to publication

33 wks

Slower than average; plan your timeline accordingly.

h-index

378

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

12.5

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Science Advances is listed at $4,500. 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 →

Peer review and licensing

Review modelAnonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY, CC BY-NC
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 Science Advances publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsGeology and Paleoclimatology ResearchRNA Research and SplicingNeural dynamics and brain functionRNA modifications and cancerEpigenetics and DNA MethylationCRISPR and Genetic EngineeringRNA and protein synthesis mechanismsAdvanced Materials and MechanicsGenomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Publication record

Indexed articles19,966
Total citations1,288,103
i10-index14,494
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2015
All ISSNs2375-2548

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.