Last updated August 28, 2018
ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGE
Baishideng Publishing Group (BPG) is a professional publisher with 26 years of experience in editing and publishing high-quality clinical medicine journals. BPG was founded on January 15, 1993 and published only the World Chinese Journal of Digestology (WCJD; Shijie Huaren Xiaohua Zazhi) until October 1, 1995 when the World Journal of Gastroenterology (WJG) was launched. Since 1999, BPG has continued to launch other clinical medicine journals in the open access World series, which is currently represented by 42 international journals covering a wide variety of disciplines in clinical medicine and our founding Chinese language journal, WCJD, which continues to focus on the intranational aspect of digestive system conditions and diseases with particular relevance to Chinese populations.
In order to maintain a sustainable open access platform, so that we may continue to serve as a conduit for communication among and within our scholarly communities at-large, an article processing charge (APC) is levied on all unsolicited manuscripts accepted for publication and regardless of article type. Our goal of providing immediate information availability and accessibility is facilitated by a zero-embargo period for all academic outputs, which are published immediately online in our unrestricted digital repository.
All articles published by BPG are selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. BPG applies the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
The APC is payable to BPG by the author(s) or research sponsor(s). All BPG publications Article Processing standards are shown in Table 1.
Table 1 BPG publications charge-Article Processing Charges (APCs)-standards
| Full Journal Title | APCs |
| World Journal of Anesthesiology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Biological Chemistry | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Cardiology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Clinical Cases | $ 1,896 |
| World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Clinical Oncology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Clinical Urology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Critical Care Medicine | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Dermatology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Diabetes | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Experimental Medicine | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Gastroenterology | $ 2,660 |
| World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology | $ 1,896 |
| World Journal of Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Gastrointestinal Pharmacology and Therapeutics | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Hematology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Hepatology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Hypertension | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Immunology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Medical Genetics | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Meta-Analysis | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Methodology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Nephrology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Neurology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Ophthalmology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Orthopedics | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Pharmacology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Psychiatry | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Radiology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Respirology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Rheumatology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Stem Cells | $ 1,896 |
| World Journal of Stomatology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Surgical Procedures | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Translational Medicine | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Transplantation | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |
| World Journal of Virology | All authors are exempt from the publication fee |