Physical Review B — publication fee
Verified list price, waiver route and what authors actually paid.
Checked 14 October 2026
Physical Review B is a hybrid journal. Publishing through the subscription route carries no APC; choosing open access costs $2,910 (list price, before tax).
Fees at a glance
| Publisher | American Physical Society |
|---|---|
| Model | hybrid |
| Subscription route | $0 — no APC Free to you, but the article is not open. |
| APC (open access) | $2,910 |
| Median actually paid | €2,352 across 5 articles (2022) OpenAPC, incl. VAT, EUR — not converted from list price |
| ISSN | 2469-9950 |
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.
Waivers and discounts
Sources for this page
- Fee
- journals.aps.org
- Checked
- 14 October 2026
- Paid median
- OpenAPC (ODbL), n≥5
List prices before tax, waivers, agreements or country-tiered adjustments. Reconfirm on the publisher's page before submitting.