Acta Orthopaedica (previously Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica 1930-2004), owned by the Nordic Orthopaedic Federation, is a non-profit electronic, immediate Open Access journal, meaning your work is free for every-one to access online as soon as it’s published (Gold OA).
Abstracts are presented in PubMed with full text available through PubMed Central. Furthermore, all Acta Orthopaedica content dating back to 1930 is freely available.
Publication fees
Article Processing Charge (APC)
The standard research article APC is EURO 1,650. For Case reports the APC is EURO 825. Depending on your location these charges may be subject to local taxes. This APC concerns only accepted and published articles, there are no submission fees or fees for rejected manuscripts.
NOTE: There is no APC for members in the national orthopedic associations who are fully paying members of the Nordic Orthopaedic Federation and who submit manuscripts on research performed in member countries.
NOTE: Acta Orthopaedica follows the HINARI waiver policy for developing countries.


