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Fees and funding

Article-processing charges

Open-access publishing is not without costs.BMC Medical Educationtherefore levies an article-processing charge of £1990.00/$2590.00/€2190.00 for each article accepted for publication, plus VAT or local taxes where applicable. The APC is determined at the date of acceptance.

If the corresponding author's institution participates in our open access membership program, some or all of the publication cost may be covered (more details available on themembership page). We routinely waive charges for authors fromlow-income countries. For other countries, article-processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors with insufficient funds. Authors can request a waiver or discount during the submission process. For further details, see ourarticle-processing charge page.

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Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact
    3.6 -2-year Impact Factor(2022)
    3.9 -5-year Impact Factor(2022)
    1.815 -SNIP(Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.744 -SJR(SCImago Journal Rank)

    Speed
    72天的第一个decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    90 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only (Median)

    Usage
    6,040,310 downloads (2022)
    3,096 Altmetric mentions (2021)

Peer-review Terminology

  • The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

    Identity transparency:Single anonymized

    Reviewer interacts with:Editor

    Review information published:Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

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