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The publisher decides what you pay

Wiley waives the publication fee in full for authors in Ghana. Taylor & Francis gives them half. Same author, same paper, a difference of a thousand dollars — and neither publisher mentions the other. This site records what each one publishes, so you can see it before you submit.

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Where the gap is widest

Full waiver at Wiley, 50% at Taylor & Francis. On a USD 2,500 charge that is USD 1,250 a paper.

Angola100% / 50%Benin100% / 50%Bhutan100% / 50%Cambodia100% / 50%Cameroon100% / 50%Comoros100% / 50%Congo100% / 50%Côte d'Ivoire100% / 50%Djibouti100% / 50%Eswatini100% / 50%Ethiopia100% / 50%Ghana100% / 50%

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What we found

The waiver follows the corresponding author, not the paper

If a co-author abroad is listed as corresponding, the reduction is lost — even when the research and every other author sit in an eligible country. At Elsevier it goes further: all authors must be in the same group, and a mix of Group A and Group B authors brings a full waiver down to 50%.

Hybrid journals are excluded almost everywhere

Of the eight publishers checked, only IOP Publishing extends waivers to hybrid titles. Elsewhere the reduction applies to fully open access journals only. In a hybrid journal you can still publish at no cost under the subscription route — the article simply will not be open access.

Two publishers make you ask

Wiley, Sage, Elsevier and PLOS apply the reduction automatically. Taylor & Francis and Springer Nature require a request at submission. An author who waits for the system to notice pays in full.