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Systematic Reviews

BioMed Central·United Kingdom·ISSN 2046-4053

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableMedicine

Systematic Reviews is published by BioMed Central as an open access journal (ISSN 2046-4053). The list article processing charge is $3,090. Typical time to publication is 11 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 141. 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

$3,090

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

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Time to publication

11 wks

Broadly typical for the field.

h-index

141

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

5.6

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Systematic Reviews is listed at $3,090. The publisher also lists 2,590 EUR, 2,290 GBP. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

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What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in Systematic Reviews, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has risen 51% since 2019, from $2,040 to $3,090.

$0$1.5k$3.1k2019: $2,04020192020: $2,17020202021: $2,49020212022: $2,69020222023: $2,79020232024: $2,89020242025: $3,0902025

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 modelOpen 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 declaredOpen 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 Systematic Reviews publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsHealth Policy Implementation ScienceGlobal Maternal and Child HealthHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationDiabetes Management and EducationDelphi Technique in ResearchPhysical Activity and HealthDementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchSepsis Diagnosis and Treatment

Publication record

Indexed articles3,604
Total citations177,483
i10-index1,919
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2012
All ISSNs2046-4053

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.