Publication fees
Publication and excess fees
Publication fees
Word count includes abstract, acknowledgements, text (and in-text citations), figure captions, table captions, and appendices. Equations count as one word no matter the size. Equations are not copyedited.
Word count excludes title, author list and affiliations, key words, key points, plain language summary, table text, open research section, references, and supporting information. Supporting information is not copyedited.
Commentaries, Introductions, Viewpoints, Comments, and Replies are free to publish.
Publication and excess page fees are waived for authors publishing as open access.
Excess page fees
Longer papers are permitted in all journals except Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). Overlength papers incur excess page fees in addition to the standard journal fee due to increased editorial and production costs. Excess fees are not charged to open-access papers.
Excess fees apply for more than 25 PUs, except GRL, for which excess fees apply for more than 12 PUs. Papers submitted to GRL that are above 12 PUs will be returned to the author. Invited GRL Frontier articles incur excess fees above 19 PUs.
See table below for publication fees, excess page fees, and Open Access rates.
Waivers
Requests for waivers are considered by AGU and the editors. Send your request in an email to the journal or in your cover letter. Many institutions cover completely or offer discounts on open-access author publishing charges (APC) in AGU journals.
For authors publishing in Gold Open Access journals (AGU Advances, Community Science, Earth and Space Science, Earth’s Future, Geohealth, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, and Space Weather), Automatic Article Publication Charge waivers and discounts will be given to authors from countries on the Waivers and Discounts List.
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Journal |
Publication Fee |
Excess Fee per Publication Unit (PU) |
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AGU Advances |
$2200 Note: as of May 16, 2022, this fee will increase to $2,500 All articles in this journal are published Open Access |
$0 |
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| Community Science |
Practice Reports and Reviews: $2000 All articles in this journal are published Open Access |
$0 | |
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Earth and Space Science |
$2100 All articles in this journal are published Open Access |
$0 |
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Earth’s Future |
$2200 Note: as of May 16, 2022, this fee will increase to $2,350 All articles in this journal are published Open Access |
$0 |
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GeoHealth |
$2100 All articles in this journal are published Open Access |
$0 |
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems |
$2750 after September 8, 2021 All articles in this journal are published Open Access |
$0 |
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Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) |
No Open Access: $500 With Open Access: $2700 |
$125 $0 for OA papers |
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Global Biogeochemical Cycles |
No Open Access: $0 With Open Access: $3600 |
$125 $0 for OA papers |
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Journal of Geophysical Research (all) |
No Open Access: $1000 With Open Access: $3600 |
$125 $0 for OA papers |
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Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES) |
$2100 All articles in this journal are published Open Access |
$0 |
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Paleoceanography |
No Open Access: $0 With Open Access: $3600 |
$125 $0 for OA papers |
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Radio Science |
No Open Access: $1000 With Open Access: $3600 |
$125 $0 for OA papers |
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Reviews of Geophysics |
No Open Access: $0 With Open Access: $3600 |
$0 |
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Space Weather |
$2650 All articles in this journal are published Open Access |
$0 |
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Tectonics |
No Open Access: $0 With Open Access: $3600 |
$125 $0 for OA papers |
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Water Resources Research |
No Open Access: $0 With Open Access: $2700 |
$125 $0 for OA papers |
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