Future Journals offers authors two choices to publish their research:
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Open access |
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Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse. |
Articles are made available to subscribers as well as developing countries and patient groups through our access programs. |
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An open access publication fee is payable by authors or their research funder. |
No open access publication fee. |
Your publication choice will have no effect on the peer review process or acceptance of your submission.
Details on open access articles
User rights
All articles published gold open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. We offer authors a choice of user licenses, which define the permitted reuse of articles. We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options, currently being defined for this journal as follows:
Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY): lets others distribute and copy the article, to create extracts, abstracts, and other revised versions, adaptations or derivative works of or from an article (such as a translation), to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), to text or data mine the article, even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit the author(s), do not represent the author as endorsing their adaptation of the article, and do not modify the article in such a way as to damage the author's honor or reputation.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND): for non-commercial purposes, lets others distribute and copy the article, and to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), as long as they credit the author(s) and provided they do not alter or modify the article.
Open Access provides free and immediate online access to scholarly literature for anyone in the world to read, distribute and reuse. Frontiers, as a Gold Open Access publisher, offset all the costs associated with our high-quality publishing service through Article Processing Charges (APCs): articles that are accepted for publication by our external editors following rigorous peer review incur a publishing fee charged to authors, institutions or funders.
Future Journals is a self-supporting organization and does not receive funding from any institution/government. Hence, the operation of the journal is solely financed by the processing fees received from authors. The processing fees are required to meet operations expenses such as employees, salaries, internet services, electricity etc. Being an Open Access Journal, FJ Journals does not receive payment for subscriptions as the journals are freely accessible over the internet. It costs money to produce a peer-reviewed, edited, and formatted article that is ready for online publication, and to host it on a server that is freely accessible without barriers around the clock. We ask that - as a small part of the cost of doing the research--the author, institution, or funding agency pays a modest fee to help cover the actual cost of the essential final step, the publication.
Review process time frame
The review process currently averages 30-45 days from submission to acceptance across our journals. It varies across journals for a number of reasons (e.g. some fields have reviewers who are on fieldwork and out of contact for a time, and some fields do more iterations in the discussion forum). The time period also depends on the article type selected from the broad range Frontiers offers its authors.
Based on the surveys conducted with authors, reviewers, and editors regarding the review process, 73-76% of respondents “Strongly agreed” or “Agreed” that Future’ peer-review process is a significant improvement on traditional peer review, and 86-91% of respondents rated the peer-review process as “Excellent” or “Good” (view more details of the survey here). But even with these exceptional survey results, we believe we can always improve.
Based on feedback we get from the authors, reviewers and editors who use our Collaborative Peer Review platform, we are continuously releasing new features to make the process even more effective and engaging for all involved.
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The future of Biology |
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3-6 weeks |
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The future of Agriculture |
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The future of Horticulture |
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3-6 weeks |
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The future of Zoology |
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3-6 weeks |
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The future of Applied Science |
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3-6 weeks |
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The future of Education |
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3-6 weeks |
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The future of Medical Science |
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3-6 weeks |
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The future of Economics |
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3-6 weeks |
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The future of Chemistry |
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3-6 weeks |
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The future of Public health |
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3-6 weeks |
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The future of Genetics |
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3-6 weeks |
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The future of Genetics |
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3-6 weeks |
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The future of Earth &Environment |
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3-6 weeks |
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The future of Computer Science |
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3-6 weeks |
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The future of Bioscience |
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The future of Applied Science |
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The future of Intelligence |
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Future Journals is committed to helping researchers overcome financial barriers to publication. There are a number of options for authors to fund APCs through either funder, institutional, and publisher initiatives. F
As Open Access mandates are growing, many institutions, funding agencies, and foundations have created Open Access Funds to pay APCs. Future Journals is working with libraries, funding agencies, and research consortia to find ways to remove some or all of the responsibility for APCs from individual authors. You can see which institutions currently participate and learn more about how the Future journals Institutional Membership can facilitate the payment of APCs for your institution.
In order to provide a fair possibility for authors with limited or no available funding to publish their manuscripts in our journals, we have to prioritize among many applications with the funds that we have available.
Each fee support request is treated individually. The allocation of support follows strict criteria and looks into the profile of each author, the history of publications, country, field, previous support allocated, and so forth.
As we are limited by a budget we tend to allocate smaller %s so that we can support as many quality manuscripts as possible.
Fee Support applications are considered independently of the peer-review process.
Discounts cannot be influenced or disclosed to the editors or reviewers.
On submission of your manuscript, please complete
Most of our publishing brings no costs for the author. However, there may be some charges for some articles:
For more information about whether these charges apply to your article, please check the Instructions to Authors page of the relevant journal.
You can pay securely on the Author Services site using a credit or debit card. Access the Author Services site via the link sent to you when your manuscript was received at Oxford University Press.
Please pay for Open Access as soon as you have selected your license. We ask that you pay any charges or raise an invoice within two working days. Page and color charges can be paid once your article has been published. We will contact you with more information at that point.
You can raise an invoice for yourself or your institution in the Author Services site. Invoices can take up to 48 hours to generate and will be sent to your registered email address. You can add PO to your invoice if needed. You can also send your invoice to somebody else by adding or changing the address details in the Author Services site once charges are available. Please note we are unable to raise pro forma invoices or receive payment in currencies other than the currency shown on your invoice except in cases of extreme hardship.
Yes, if you select to raise an invoice but would like to pay by credit or debit card you can speak to our Customer Services team to pay over the phone.
Yes, once payment is received online you will receive a receipt.
Future Journals Press has agreed on Reading and Publish deals with several institutions, which allow authors to access institutional funding for Open Access publication. If you are affiliated with one of these institutions, you may be able to publish your article Open Access using this funding.
If the journal you are publishing in is fully Open Access and your country is listed on our developing countries list your publication charges will be waived. Other reasons for applying for a waiver should be directed to the Editor of the journal, please see the Editorial Board page of the relevant journal.
After publication, the corresponding author will be sent a free-access link to the article. The link can be shared with co-authors and colleagues, and posted on the authors’ personal or institutional web pages.
You can order print copies of the journal issue at any time via Author Services at a 50% discount.
Individual libraries and academic institutes (single and multi-site) and consortia can subscribe to the entire package, a subject subset, or a customized selection tailored to meet their needs. We offer a free subscription for our online and printed manuscripts. Send an email To request a free subscription, send an email to info@futurejournals.org. The sales team will contact you within 24 hours to complete your subscription process.