Journals Offering Fee Waivers for Articles Related to COVID-19
                     Journals Offering Fee Waivers for 
Articles Related to COVID-19
Introductio
n
The virus spreading COVID-19 is a novel 
coronavirus. Not much has been known about the 
virus. Any accurate and authentic information 
about coronavirus and the related disease is of 
vital importance to the researchers. This 
information will help the researchers to tackle this 
pandemic more effectively. Articles published in 
journals are a great source of information on this 
new pandemic. Many journals have either reduced 
or have completely waived off the publication 
charges.
Journals Offering a Fee-
Waiver for COVID-19 
Articles
Many publishing houses that 
are into publishing the 
journals have waived off the 
article processing charges 
and set up a rapid review 
process for researches 
related to COVID-19. Some 
of these journals are:
1) PEERJ
PeerJ is one of the leading publishers 
of various research articles. The 
editorial board of PeerJ includes 5 
Nobel Laureates. Started in the year 
2011, it has 70000 researchers that 
have subscribed to PeerJ article alerts. 
It publishes research across 228 
subjects.  PeerJ has 37.5 million views 
and downloads. For more information 
visit 
https://peerj.com/blog/post/115284882
180/covid-19-full-fee-waivers-fast-trac
k-peer-review/
2) AIJR PUBLISHERS
AIJR is the publisher of open access 
refereed journals and books. It 
publishes articles related to all areas of 
research and technology. AIJR is 
involved in publishing abstract books, 
peer-reviewed journals, thesis, 
dissertation, books, conference 
proceedings, open access, and 
academic journals. The articles 
published through AIJR must go 
through the peer-review process. For 
more information visit 
https://www.aijr.in/call-for-publications-
on-covid19-impact-of-coronavirus-outbr
eak/
3) HINDAWI JOURNAL
Hindawi is a large publishing house that 
publishes 230 peer-reviewed journals. 
With headquarters in London, the 
publishing house publishes approximately 
20,000 articles per year. It was founded in 
1997 and is the founder member of the 
Open Access Scholarly Publishers 
Association. For more information, please 
visit 
https://www.hindawi.com/post/sharing-fin
dings-related-covid-19-these-extraordinar
y-times/?utm_source=facebook&utm_med
ium=owned+referral&utm_campaign=HD
W_COMR_GBL_AWA_TWTR_
4) FRONTIERS
Frontiers is a publishing house, 
publishing research articles in 600 
different academic disciplines. The 
journals are peer-reviewed before 
publication, and the house has more 
than 1,00,000 researchers for peer-
reviewing.  It has an open science 
technology platform that also includes 
Artificial Intelligence Review 
Assistant.  For more information visit 
https://coronavirus.frontiersin.org/
5) FACETS
Facets are Canada’s first 
multidisciplinary open access journals. 
Being a multi-disciplinary publishing 
house, it has various subject 
specialists to review the submitted 
articles. It has a partnership with 
various research organizations and 
helps them to disseminate the 
information. For more information, 
please visit 
https://medium.com/facets/waived-fee
s-for-human-epidemiology-manuscript
s-5ab9283c0767
6) SAGE PUBLISHING
Sage publishing is the publisher of 
books and journals. The publisher is 
also into library products and suites 
including data, case studies, archives, 
and videos. It publishes more than 
1000 journals, and 900 new books 
every year. For more information 
please visit 
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/pr
ess/sage-waives-article-processing-ch
arges-for-research-related-to-covid-19
7) AOSIS
Aosis publishers publish various 
journals. The house has a peer-review 
process. Aosis has various services 
such as online publication 
engagement, plagiarism detection 
management, strategic development, 
and indexing services management.  
For more information, please visit 
https://aosis.co.za/covid-19-apc-state
ment/
.
8) BRITISH JOURNAL OF 
RADIOLOGY
British Journal of Radiology is one of 
the oldest scientific journals in the 
field of radiology. The journal has a 
long history dating back to 1896 and 
is known for publishing various 
landmark researches in the field of 
radiology. The journal publishes 
multidisciplinary articles related to 
radiotherapy, medical physics, and 
imaging techniques.  For more 
information, please visit 
https://www.birpublications.org/covid-
19
9) BLOOD AND BLOOD 
ADVANCES
Blood is the journal published by The 
American Society of Hematology. The 
journal is published weekly with 52 
journals a year. In the year 2018, the 
impact factor of the journal was 
16.601. The journal is published every 
Thursday except in the last week of 
the year.  For more information, 
please visit 
https://ashpublications.org/journals/pa
ges/covid_19