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Suggested citation
JournalFees (2026). Verified article processing charges and waiver eligibility by country. journalfees.com, dataset version of 11 October 2026. https://journalfees.com/data/ (CC BY 4.0).
For a single figure, cite the journal page on this site and the date it shows, for example “Nature Communications APC $7,350, read 16 September 2026, journalfees.com/journals/nature-communications/”. The date matters more than the figure: it tells your reader which version of the publisher’s page we saw.
What each file contains
| Dataset | Contents | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Verified article processing charges | 1,552 journals; list price, currency, source page and date read | JSON |
| APC waiver eligibility by country | 110 countries; Wiley and Taylor & Francis percentages with source pages | JSON · CSV |
| Diamond open access journals | 778 journals with no APC and no other fees, from the DOAJ export of 1 July 2026 with our corrections | JSON |
| Journals published in the United States | 139 example journals, each read on its own page | JSON · CSV |
| Journals published in France | 1,364 journals; 743 read one by one | JSON · CSV |
| Journals published in Portugal | 339 journals read one by one | JSON · CSV |
| Proposed NIH publication cost limits | the options in NOT-OD-25-138, as proposed | JSON |
Every row names the page it was read from and the date. Files are regenerated when figures change; the corrections log records what changed.
How the figures were collected
Each price was read from the publisher’s or journal’s own fee page, by a person or a script whose reading a person checked, and recorded with the page address and date. Where the page blocked automated reading we used an archived copy and said so in the row. Where a figure was available only from a directory, a search summary or an email, it was not published. The full rules are on How we check.
Amounts are list prices before tax, waivers and institutional agreements, in the currency the publisher states. We do not convert currencies: a converted figure would look like a verified price when it is not.
What the licence does not cover
- The publisher and journal names and the quotes from their pages belong to their owners; they are reproduced here as short factual citations.
- DOAJ-derived rows (the diamond open access list) carry DOAJ’s own CC0 licence for the DOAJ fields; our additions are CC BY 4.0.
- OpenAPC aggregates are OpenAPC’s data under its ODbL licence and are credited on the page that uses them.
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