Publication Fees and Reprints

To defray publication costs and to support other AACR programs, authors of accepted manuscripts will be invoiced based on the journal’s publication fees as detailed herein. Authors are required to confirm at the time of submission that they agree to pay the article publication fees in the event that their manuscript is accepted for publication.

Standard Fees

Important: The standard fees charged for publication in the AACR journals have changed effective May 6, 2021. Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication after that date will be charged based on the new fees detailed immediately below. Authors of manuscripts accepted prior to that date will be charged based on the old fee structure displayed below the new fees.

The standard fees charged for publication include a flat publication fee based on the journal and an additional handling fee for each display item (figure or table) as detailed below. These changes will result in slightly lower prices for most authors. For example, the total charge for an average Research Article at Cancer Research with 5 color figures and 1 black and white figure decreases from $4,875 under the old pricing to $4,300 under the new pricing. In addition, only authors from 27 countries are subject to the full price. All other authors will receive a country-specific discount based on the location of the primary affiliation of the corresponding author, see Publication Fee Discounts below for details.

No fees will be charged for certain invited article types solicited directly by an editor.

Important: The standard fees below have been discontinued effective May 6, 2021. See information on new fees above. The standard fees charged for publication included a flat publication fee based on the journal and article type and an additional handling fee for each color figure. These fees are detailed below.

AuthorChoice Fees

Important: The AuthorChoice option has beeen discontinued effective May 6, 2021. Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication after that date, and who wish to make their manuscript immediately freely available online, may instead make use of our new Open Access option by paying the required open access fee.

The AuthorChoice fee was $3,500 for Cancer Discovery, Blood Cancer Discovery, Cancer Research, and Clinical Cancer Research and $3,000 for Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, Cancer Immunology Research, Cancer Prevention Research, Molecular Cancer Research, and Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. No waivers are provided for AuthorChoice fees and authors who select AuthorChoice are also responsible for the standard color figure fees. AuthorChoice does not provide an Open Access license and is generally ineligible for funder reimbursement.

Open Access Fees

Authors who wish to publish their accepted manuscript under an open access license may pay an open access fee of $1,500 in addition to the Standard Fees. See Open Access for details about the Creative Commons license that will be applied to the published author manuscript and typeset article.

Publication Fee Discounts

The AACR provides authors with a variety of discounts to the standard publication fees, which allows them to reduce, and in some cases eliminate, the cost of publication. Most discounts are automatically applied on behalf of the author. Descriptions of these discounts, and who qualifies for them, are described below.

Billing

Any article processing charges (publication, color figure, and AuthorChoice fees) are being processed through RightsLink^®, an online billing platform tailored for the AACR by the Copyright Clearance Center. If a manuscript is accepted and there are article processing charges associated with the manuscript, RightsLink^® provides authors with a simple way to manage and pay charges online via an email prompt shortly after acceptance.

Reprints

Authors have the opportunity to order reprints of their articles with reduced color costs when they receive their article proofs for approval prior to publication. A link will be provided to the Sheridan Electronic Order Center where reprint fees are detailed and payment can be made. Authors who have questions about fees should contact the AACR Publications Department at pubs@aacr.org.

Anyone who would like to purchase bulk reprints of an article but who is not a listed author can find information about this at Third Party Permission and Reprints.