How to publish with us
What is open access?
BMC Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is an open access journal.
Publishing your research open access in a journal makes your research publicly available for everyone to read. Readers do not have to pay for access; there are no subscription charges or registration barriers. This means more readers, citations and impact for research published this way.
Benefits of open access
Publishing open access (OA) offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your work:
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Cited more
1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects
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Downloaded more
4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles
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Greater impact
2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy mentions
Open access also enables compliance with many major funder policies internationally. Find out more about benefits of open access.
Fees and funding
Publication fee
An article processing charge (APC) applies for each article accepted for publication in BMC Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. The APC price will be determined from the date on which the article is accepted for publication.
The current APC for BMC Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is £1490.00 GBP / $1990.00 USD / €1690.00 EUR.
This fee is subject to VAT or local taxes where applicable.
Visit our open access support portal and our Journal pricing FAQs for further information.
Open access funding, discounts and waivers
Funding
Springer Nature offers agreements that enable institutions to cover open access publishing costs. Learn more about our open access agreements to check your eligibility and find out whether this journal is included.
Authors may also be able to access open access funding directly from their research funders and institutions. To find out more, visit Springer Nature’s open access funding and support services.
Discounts and waivers
Springer Nature offers APC waivers and discounts for articles published in our fully open access journals whose corresponding authors are based in the world’s lowest income countries. For more information, see our APC waivers and discounts policy.
Requests for APC waivers and discounts from other authors will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and may be granted in cases of financial need. Learn more about our open access policies for journals.
All applications for discretionary APC waivers and discounts should be made at the point of manuscript submission; requests made during the review process or after acceptance are unable to be considered.
Creative Commons licences
Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles.
BMC Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery articles are published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International licence) or CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence) licence.
- CC BY-NC-ND: The article can be shared for non-commercial purposes as long as the authors are credited. Permission is needed for commercial re-use or sharing adapted and derivative versions.
- CC BY: The article may be shared and adapted for any purpose, including commercially, so long as the authors are credited.
You may also wish to find out about licence variations that are available to meet funder and institutional open access licence requirements. Learn more in our guide to licensing, copyright and author rights for journal articles.