BMJ Global Health — publication fee
Verified list price, waiver route and what authors actually paid.
Checked 14 October 2026
The BMJ Global Health article processing charge is £3,580 (list price, before tax), read from the publisher's page on 14 October 2026.
Fees at a glance
| Publisher | BMJ |
|---|---|
| Model | gold OA |
| APC (list) | £3,580 |
| Median actually paid | €4,044 across 6 articles (2025) OpenAPC, incl. VAT, EUR — not converted from list price |
| ISSN | 2059-7908 |
What authors actually paid, by year
OpenAPC records 6 BMJ Global Health articles paid for by institutions in 2025, median €4,044 (range €1,967 – €4,995). Across the 9 years with at least five reported articles, the median moved from €3,423 (2017) to €4,044 (2025). These are amounts actually invoiced to institutions, in euros including VAT, so they reflect agreements, discounts and exchange rates — not the list price above.
| Year | Route | Articles reported | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | gold OA | 25 | €3,423 | €1,224 – €4,123 |
| 2018 | gold OA | 45 | €4,046 | €1,964 – €4,241 |
| 2019 | gold OA | 49 | €3,055 | €1,527 – €4,459 |
| 2020 | gold OA | 56 | €3,488 | €1,217 – €5,693 |
| 2021 | gold OA | 68 | €3,251 | €1,230 – €4,400 |
| 2022 | gold OA | 53 | €3,590 | €1,373 – €5,377 |
| 2023 | gold OA | 39 | €3,933 | €1,728 – €4,828 |
| 2024 | gold OA | 9 | €3,997 | €2,063 – €4,741 |
| 2025 | gold OA | 6 | €4,044 | €1,967 – €4,995 |
Source: OpenAPC (ODbL), Bielefeld University Library; years with fewer than five reported articles are omitted. EUR, incl. VAT.
Waivers and discounts
Peer review, speed and licence
| Submission to publication | 33 weeks average stated by the journal |
|---|---|
| Peer review | Single anonymous |
| Licence | CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND |
| Author keeps copyright | No |
| Plagiarism screening | Yes |
| Long-term preservation | Portico, LOCKSS |
| Open access since | 2016 |
What BMJ Global Health 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
- gh.bmj.com
- Checked
- 14 October 2026
- Paid by year
- OpenAPC (ODbL), per-year medians, n≥5
- Review & licence
- DOAJ (CC0), read 16 October 2026
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