About DISCOVERIES
Discoveries (abbreviated: Discoveries (Craiova)) is now indexed by PubMedCentral and PubMed, successfully passing both the Scientific & Technical Reviews (August 2019) by US National Library of Medicine. Access the articles on PubMedCentral here. New accepted manuscripts will be included in PMC and PubMed within 1-3 weeks after final acceptance.
Publication Frequency and Editorial Calendar
Discoveries publishes 4 issues per year, released quarterly according to the following schedule:
| Issue | Period | Publication Month |
|---|---|---|
| Issue 1 | January – March | March |
| Issue 2 | April – June | June |
| Issue 3 | July – September | September |
| Issue 4 | October – December | December |
Accepted manuscripts are published online on a rolling basis prior to their assignment to a specific issue. Manuscripts may be submitted at any time and are processed independently of issue deadlines. Assignment to a specific issue is made at the discretion of the Editorial Office based on the date of final acceptance. Each published article receives a DOI upon online publication and is indexed in PubMed/PubMed Central approximately one-three weeks after publication.
Publication Volume
Discoveries maintains a selective publication policy, with ~20 peer-reviewed articles published per calendar year, reflecting our commitment to quality over quantity. The acceptance rate is approximately 19%–30%.
| Year | Articles Published |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 |
| 2024 | 20 |
| 2023 | 20 |
| 2022 | 20 |
| 2021 | 20 |
| 2020 | 18 |
Publication fee (APC)
Discoveries' publication fee for accepted manuscripts is 1000 Euro / 1170 USD (as of January 1st, 2026). Between October 2013 and 2025, Discoveries published all articles without any publication or processing fees. For more than twelve years, this fee-free model reflected our strong commitment to accessibility, inclusivity, and the broad dissemination of scientific knowledge.
However, scholarly publishing is not without cost. Maintaining high editorial and ethical standards requires substantial and ongoing investment across many stages of the publication process, including manuscript handling, peer-review coordination, editorial oversight, copyediting, typesetting, digital infrastructure, long-term archiving, indexing, and platform maintenance. As the journal has grown in scope, visibility, and submissions, these operational demands have increased accordingly.
The introduction of a publication fee is therefore a necessary step to ensure the sustainability and continued development of Discoveries. This change will allow us to strengthen editorial operations, improve author and reader services, enhance publication speed and quality, and invest in the long-term advancement and impact of the journal.
We remain fully committed to our founding principles of scientific rigor, transparency, and open dissemination of research. The publication fee is introduced solely to support the journal’s progress and to secure its future as a high-quality, independent, and trusted scholarly platform.
We are deeply grateful to our authors, reviewers, editors, and readers for their support over the past twelve years, and we look forward to continuing this journey together as Discoveries enters its next phase of growth.
From 2020 to 2025, Discoveries maintained a highly selective publication standard, accepting only a limited number of manuscripts annually following rigorous evaluation and revision processes, with yearly acceptance rates ranging from 19% to 30%. This selectivity has continued into 2026: between January and May (including), only 9 of the 43 submissions that reached a final decision were accepted, yielding an acceptance rate of 20.93% for the first five months of 2026.