Free-to-publish journals by language
You do not have to write in English to publish in a ranked, free journal. The table shows, per manuscript language declared in the DOAJ, how many Diamond open access journals accept it and how many of those are ranked in Scopus. Data snapshot: October 2026.
| Language | No-APC journals | In Scopus | Q1 + Q2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 11,855 | 3,806 | 1,587 |
| Spanish | 3,974 | 1,088 | 430 |
| Portuguese | 2,159 | 491 | 181 |
| French | 1,840 | 557 | 213 |
| Italian | 884 | 307 | 124 |
| German | 847 | 290 | 117 |
| Indonesian | 822 | 23 | 12 |
| Russian | 792 | 241 | 83 |
| Polish | 510 | 120 | 52 |
| Turkish | 453 | 45 | 10 |
| Arabic | 328 | 26 | 12 |
| Ukrainian | 317 | 47 | 10 |
| Persian | 296 | 34 | 1 |
| Catalan | 188 | 94 | 51 |
| Croatian | 147 | 85 | 23 |
| Norwegian | 138 | 25 | 8 |
| Czech | 135 | 65 | 23 |
| Serbian | 133 | 33 | 9 |
| Swedish | 127 | 21 | 9 |
| Romanian | 118 | 25 | 10 |
| Slovak | 113 | 54 | 22 |
| Danish | 107 | 19 | 9 |
| Slovenian | 88 | 53 | 22 |
| Hungarian | 74 | 13 | 5 |
| Chinese | 62 | 27 | 14 |
| Lithuanian | 59 | 25 | 9 |
| Galician | 41 | 21 | 9 |
| Dutch | 38 | 13 | 4 |
| Finnish | 37 | 5 | 3 |
| Bulgarian | 35 | 8 | 4 |
| Korean | 28 | 14 | 7 |
| Basque | 28 | 12 | 7 |
| Bosnian | 26 | 5 | 1 |
| Malay | 22 | 5 | 2 |
| Belarusian | 18 | 3 | 2 |
| Japanese | 15 | 4 | 2 |
| Greek | 15 | 6 | 2 |
| Estonian | 12 | 10 | 6 |
| Kurdish | 11 | 0 | 0 |
Languages are those the journal declares in the DOAJ as accepted for manuscripts. A journal listing several languages appears on each of their pages.