Open access

All research content published by the JCI is freely available to the public immediately upon publication.

Authors with funding from agencies requiring Creative Commons Attribution licensing can be assured that the JCI will publish their paper using a CC BY 4.0 license to be compliant with funding mandates including those under Plan S. The JCI is compliant with Wellcome and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) agencies and is indexed in Sherpa Romeo. Please alert JCI staff if your funding agency requires publication with a CC BY license.

The JCI deposits all published research articles in PubMed Central, which satisfies the NIH Public Access Policy and other similar funding agency requirements.

While all research content is freely available, the Journal's publisher and owner, the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), holds copyright to much of the content. The JCI strives to provide authors with fair and equitable rights in return for assigning copyright of their work to the ASCI. Authors retain rights to present the work without prior permission in original, revised, adapted, or derivative form, provided that all such use references the original publication citation. Examples include reproduction in publications; lecture display (slides, overheads, or digitized media); hosting on personal or curriculum vitae–oriented websites; and inclusion in institutional and/or funding body repositories. If you are not an original author of an article to which the ASCI holds copyright, you may request permission to use JCI content via the Copyright Clearance Center. See the JCI's terms of use for further information.

Publication fees

Authors of accepted JCI research manuscripts are assessed a publication fee of $4650 ($3500 for Concise Communication papers). This fee supports the following expenses:

• Editorial board and staff
• Copyediting and layout process and staff
• Online publication on www.jci.org freely available to anyone, anywhere
• Depositing to PubMed, PubMedCentral, and other databases
• IT infrastructure and staff to support all of the above 
• General and administrative expenses to support all of the above