De Gruyter Brill APC Waiver and Discount Policy: Who Qualifies and How to Apply

At a glanceAutomatic 80% discount for World Bank low-income and 30% for lower-middle income countries. Corresponding author only Applied automatically from the affiliation

Check De Gruyter Brill's waiver for your author team

Co-authors (where they work)

Only the country is needed: without a journal you get every publisher's result for your author team. Free. No sign-up. Uses the publishers' published rules, last verified 27 October 2026.

Which countries qualify at De Gruyter Brill

Countries are matched by the author's institutional affiliation, not nationality.

80% off 25 countries World Bank low-income list

Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Kinshasa), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, North Korea, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Yemen

30% off 46 countries World Bank lower-middle income list

Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Djibouti, Egypt, Eswatini, Ghana, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mauritania, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Solomon Islands, São Tomé and Príncipe, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe

The publisher does not publish its exact country list; the groups above are the World Bank income groups it refers to.

Co-authors from other countries

Only the corresponding author's affiliation counts. Co-authors from other countries do not change the waiver.

Corresponding author

How to get the waiver

Automatic after acceptance.

Programmes: Own World Bank list: low income 80%, lower-middle 30%; EIFL.

Official sources: degruyterbrill.com ↗

De Gruyter Brill journals on ScholarsColab

Each journal page shows its indexing, impact factor, review time, reviewer comments and this waiver.

ACMSpringer NatureTaylor & FrancisSAGEOxford University PressAmerican Chemical SocietyBioMed Central (BMC)Emerald PublishingKargerWorld ScientificBentham ScienceAIP Publishing

Schemes used: World Bank income groups, EIFL agreements. All publishers and schemes →

Frequently asked questions

Does De Gruyter Brill offer APC waivers?

Automatic 80% discount for World Bank low-income and 30% for lower-middle income countries. Applied automatically from the affiliation.

Who gets a full APC waiver at De Gruyter Brill?

No country gets a guaranteed 100% waiver; the scheme gives discounts. Only the corresponding author's affiliation counts. Co-authors from other countries do not change the waiver.

Does the De Gruyter Brill waiver apply if my co-authors are from other countries?

Only the corresponding author's affiliation counts. Co-authors from other countries do not change the waiver.

How do I apply for an APC waiver at De Gruyter Brill?

Automatic after acceptance.

Before you submit

Source, method and date. Each publisher's rule was read from its official waiver page (linked on every row) and the country lists from Research4Life, EIFL, the World Bank income classification and the publishers' own lists. Last verified: 27 October 2026. Policies change, Research4Life updates its lists every January and the World Bank every July, and some waivers are temporary or decided case by case. The checker reads the published rules; it cannot promise a waiver. Confirm on the publisher's page before you submit. ScholarsColab is not affiliated with any publisher listed here; logos are trademarks of their owners, shown only to name the publishers whose rules we read.

Confidence of this entry: Medium.