Molecular Ecology — publication fee
Verified list price, waiver route and what authors actually paid.
Checked 14 October 2026
Molecular Ecology is a hybrid journal. Publishing through the subscription route carries no APC; choosing open access costs $5,210 / €4,550 / £3,900 (list price, before tax), read from Wiley's APC price list on 14 October 2026.
Fees at a glance
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| Model | hybrid |
| Subscription route | $0 — no APC Free to you, but the article is not open. |
| APC (open access) | $5,210 / €4,550 / £3,900 |
| Median actually paid | €3,682 across 8 articles (2019) OpenAPC, incl. VAT, EUR — not converted from list price |
| ISSN | 1365-294X |
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.
Compared against the open access fee only. The subscription route in this journal costs the author nothing, so it falls under every scenario — but the article is not then open access.
Proposed in NIH RFI NOT-OD-25-138 (30 July 2025). Not finalized as of 11 October 2026. Compared against this journal’s list APC in US dollars, as printed above — no currency is converted. What was proposed.
What authors actually paid, by year
OpenAPC records 8 Molecular Ecology articles paid for by institutions in 2019, median €3,682 (range €1,831 – €4,726). Across the 6 years with at least five reported articles, the median moved from €1,903 (2014) to €3,682 (2019). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | hybrid | 10 | €1,903 | €1,861 – €2,730 |
| 2015 | hybrid | 10 | €2,927 | €2,832 – €4,534 |
| 2016 | hybrid | 13 | €3,258 | €2,219 – €5,137 |
| 2017 | hybrid | 18 | €3,457 | €2,395 – €5,286 |
| 2018 | hybrid | 11 | €3,425 | €2,704 – €3,938 |
| 2019 | hybrid | 8 | €3,682 | €1,831 – €4,726 |
Source: OpenAPC (ODbL), Bielefeld University Library; years with fewer than five reported articles are omitted. EUR, incl. VAT.
Waivers and discounts
This is a hybrid journal: publishing without open access costs nothing. Most country waivers cover fully open access journals only — which publishers extend them to hybrid titles.
Sources for this page
- Fee
- authors.wiley.com
- Checked
- 14 October 2026
- Paid by year
- OpenAPC (ODbL), per-year medians, n≥5
List prices before tax, waivers, agreements or country-tiered adjustments. Reconfirm on the publisher's page before submitting.
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