General | Common Ground Author Fund Award

To ensure that researchers in developing nations have access to publication pathways that enhance the visibility of their research, the Common Ground Author Fund awards a limited number of fee waivers for Gold Open Access (CC-BY) each year for excellent research.

·       We award full waivers to journal articles whose corresponding authors are based in countries classified by the World Bank as low-income economies. We also award 50% fee waivers to lower-middle economies.

·       For a full or partial fee waiver, the manuscript must receive an average peer review score of 21/25 or above.

·       Requests from authors will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

·       Requests must be made on submission; we are unable to consider any requests later in the publication process.