RSC Advances — publication fee
Verified list price, waiver route and what authors actually paid.
Checked 14 October 2026
The RSC Advances article processing charge is £2,200 (list price, before tax), read from the publisher's page on 14 October 2026.
Fees at a glance
| Publisher | Royal Society of Chemistry |
|---|---|
| Model | gold OA |
| APC (list) | £2,200 |
| Median actually paid | €1,339 across 12 articles (2025) OpenAPC, incl. VAT, EUR — not converted from list price |
What authors actually paid, by year
OpenAPC records 12 RSC Advances articles paid for by institutions in 2025, median €1,339 (range €1,134 – €1,614). Across the 12 years with at least five reported articles, the median moved from €1,997 (2015) to €1,339 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | hybrid | 16 | €1,997 | €1,405 – €3,649 |
| 2016 | gold OA | 15 | €2,109 | €713 – €2,293 |
| 2016 | hybrid | 7 | €1,744 | €1,744 – €1,873 |
| 2017 | gold OA | 111 | €658 | €294 – €1,910 |
| 2018 | gold OA | 87 | €676 | €442 – €1,891 |
| 2019 | gold OA | 105 | €881 | €440 – €1,241 |
| 2020 | gold OA | 74 | €885 | €500 – €1,223 |
| 2021 | gold OA | 88 | €868 | €581 – €1,064 |
| 2022 | gold OA | 57 | €911 | €751 – €1,230 |
| 2023 | gold OA | 61 | €1,137 | €716 – €2,053 |
| 2024 | gold OA | 19 | €1,280 | €984 – €1,784 |
| 2025 | gold OA | 12 | €1,339 | €1,134 – €1,614 |
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 | 8 weeks average stated by the journal |
|---|---|
| Peer review | Single anonymous |
| Licence | CC BY, CC BY-NC |
| Author keeps copyright | No |
| Plagiarism screening | Yes |
| Long-term preservation | CLOCKSS, LOCKSS, Portico |
| Open access since | 2017 |
What RSC Advances 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
- www.rsc.org
- 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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