Journals

To get your work peer-reviewed, you need to submit it to a journal. To make your work open access, most journals are for-profit and charge >$1000 to publish your work (including a substantial portion being directed scientific funding to massive profits for publishing companies).

You can find suitable journals for your work using the JournalFinder App.

Note that Sydney University has Read and Publish Agreements which covers article processing charges for many major journals.

Computational Neuroscience

Free/cheap

• Journal of Physics: Complexity. Open access and publication charge paid for as part of Australian Uni agreement.
• NBDT. Neurons, Behavior, Data Analysis and Theory. For computational neuroscience (data, behavior, theory, analysis, modeling). $10 to publish (arXiv overlay).
• MELBA. The Journal of Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging. (~free?).
• MNA. Mathematical Neuroscience and Applications. $0.
• Brain Multiphysics. $650/article in 2020 (increases up to double this in 2022).

Less so

• npj Complexity. $2590.
• PLoS Complex Systems. $2926.
• Physical Review X Life. $3450 (from 2025–).
• eLife, $2.5k.

General

• peerJ ~$1k publishing cost.
• F1000, from $150 (short article) – $2k (very long article).
• PLoS ONE, ~$1.7k.
• Scientific Reports, €1,570.

Software

• JOSS. For open-source software: free to publish.