BMC Cancer — publication fee
Verified list price, waiver route and what authors actually paid.
Checked 16 September 2026
The BMC Cancer article processing charge is $3,550 / €3,150 / £2,690 (list price, before tax), read from the publisher's page on 16 September 2026.
Fees at a glance
| Publisher | Springer Nature (BioMed Central) |
|---|---|
| Model | gold OA |
| APC (list) | $3,550 / €3,150 / £2,690 |
| Country-tiered pricing | Part of Springer Nature's country-tiered APC pricing pilot — what that means |
| Median actually paid | €2,845 across 19 articles (2024) OpenAPC, incl. VAT, EUR — not converted from list price |
| ISSN | 1471-2407 |
APC vs proposed NIH limits
The $3,000 scenario applies only if the journal pays its reviewers and publishes the reviews. We do not verify that, so this journal is not shown as meeting it either way.
Proposed in NIH RFI NOT-OD-25-138 (30 July 2025). Not finalized as of 23 September 2026. Compared against this journal’s list APC in US dollars, as printed above — no currency is converted. What was proposed.
Waivers and discounts
BMC: Corresponding authors in the world's lowest income countries. Automatic for the country route; request required for the discretionary route. Checked 1 August 2026.
Peer review, speed and licence
| Submission to publication | 19 weeks average stated by the journal |
|---|---|
| Peer review | Open |
| Licence | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND |
| Author keeps copyright | No |
| Plagiarism screening | Yes |
| Long-term preservation | LOCKSS, PMC |
| Open access since | 2001 |
What BMC Cancer states in its record in the Directory of Open Access Journals, read 16 October 2026. The journal supplies these fields; DOAJ does not audit turnaround times. DOAJ record.
Sources for this page
- Fee
- link.springer.com
- Checked
- 16 September 2026
- Paid median
- OpenAPC v5.11.4-4-1 (ODbL), n≥5
- Review & licence
- DOAJ (CC0), read 16 October 2026
List prices before tax, waivers, agreements or country-tiered adjustments. Reconfirm on the publisher's page before submitting.
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