Nature Physics — publication fee
Verified list price, waiver route.
Checked 6 October 2026
Gold open access in Nature Physics costs $12,850 / €10,850 / £9,390 (list price, before tax) — the same APC as Nature. Nature Physics also offers a subscription publishing route at no charge to the author.
Fees at a glance
| Publisher | Springer Nature (Nature Portfolio) |
|---|---|
| Model | hybrid (transformative) |
| APC (list) | $12,850 / €10,850 / £9,390 |
| Median actually paid | €11,700 across 5 articles (2023) OpenAPC, incl. VAT, EUR — not converted from list price |
| ISSN | 1745-2473 |
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
Springer Nature: Low-income economies as of July 2023. Request required.
What authors actually paid, by year
OpenAPC records 5 Nature Physics articles paid for by institutions in 2023, median €11,700 (range €9,750 – €11,700). These are amounts actually invoiced to institutions, in euros including VAT, so they reflect agreements, discounts and exchange rates — not the list price above. Only one year reaches the five-article threshold.
| Year | Articles reported | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | €11,700 | €9,750 – €11,700 |
Source: OpenAPC release v5.11.4-4-1 (ODbL), Bielefeld University Library; years with fewer than five reported articles are omitted. EUR, incl. VAT.
Compared with
Sources for this page
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- nature.com
- Checked
- 6 October 2026
- Paid by year
- OpenAPC v5.11.4-4-1 (ODbL), per-year medians, n≥5
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