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 1-4 weeks after their publication.
As of December 15, 2025, Discoveries introduced a publication fee for accepted manuscripts of 1000 Euro / 1170 USD. Between October 2013 and December 15, 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.
Strict EDITORIAL and ETHICAL RULES are enforced to maintain high quality standards of the accepted manuscripts. Submitted articles are first prescreened by the Executive or Senior Editors within 2-3 days. If selected, a post-peer review decision is communicated to the authors within 10-25 days.
In 2020-2025 Discoveries published a very limited number of 20 articles/year, all after a stringent evaluation and revision, resulting in a yearly acceptance rate between 19%-30%. In 2026, Discoveries aims to publish only 20-25 peer-reviewed articles, to maintain a high quality standard of the published articles.