Thieme Group

Title	Thieme Group
Class	Professional Publisher (Very Large)
URL	http://www.thieme.com, https://www.thieme.de/de/index.htm and http://open.thieme.com
Owner	The Thieme Group is a holding incorporating several specialised Open Access journals in medicine and chemistry. Thieme is a family-owned business in its fourth generation.
Address	Georg Thieme Verlag KG Rüdigerstraße 14 • D - 70469 Stuttgart Postfach 30 11 20 • D - 70451 Stuttgart
Copyright and Licensing	Resources for authors: https://open.thieme.com/de/web/19/authors
Copyright and Licensing Policy	Thieme currently publishes more than 50 OA journals: Eight of the OA journals offer cc-by as default and all other OA journals offer cc-by-nc-nd as default reuse license. Full information here: http://www.thieme.com/apcs/Price_List_OA.pdf The author retains his copyright transferring usage rights to the publisher via the copyright transfer agreement. Usage rights are transferred to the publisher upon acceptance of the manuscript in accordance with existing legislation. A cc-license will be added according to the author's choice.
Complaint email	The centralised addresses are: journals@thieme.com In addition, each journal provides its own e-mail address held by the equivalent editorial office.
Complaint policy	There is no specific policy on complaints. Please find a reference to the general policies at Thieme Publishers: https://www.thieme.com/terms-of-trade https://www.thieme.com/return-policy https://www.thieme.de/de/thieme-gruppe/privacy-policy-statement-Thieme-Publishers-New-York-EN.htm
Publication charge link	http://www.thieme.com/apcs/Price_List_OA.pdf Links to APCs are included in each OA-journal's author instructions, e.g. http://www.thieme.com/media/ita/JAO_AuthorInstructions.pdf The relevant instructions incl. the information about the APC can be found at: https://open.thieme.com/de/web/19/authors
Publication charge policy	OA journals follow a differential APC calculation depending on the type of article (research article, review, case report) or membership (society member, non-member) as well as cc-license type (cc-by, cc-by-nc-nd)
OASPA Compliant OA Journals	50+
OA articles approx. number in 12 months	ca. 4,800
OASPA Compliant OA Books	N/A
Initiatives	With the exception of our CME journals, all Open Access journals published by Georg Thieme Verlag and Thieme Publishers are either fully OA or provide a hybrid option. There is also an OA platform called Thieme Open, http://open.thieme.com/de/home
Peer review policy	Thieme journals generally follow a single or double blinded peer review process. Journal-specific details are included in the author instructions of each journal.