1,840 free-to-publish journals that accept manuscripts in French

1,840 peer-reviewed open access journals accept submissions in French and charge no APC and no other author fees. Many also accept other languages; 155 publish only in French. 557 are indexed in Scopus and ranked by SCImago and appear first. Data snapshot: October 2026.

Of the Scopus-ranked journals here, 38% are Q1 or Q2 (site-wide: 40%). Their median self-reported time from submission to publication is 20 weeks. Most are published in France (337), Spain (249) and Brazil (194). The largest subject areas are Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. 88% accept manuscripts in English and 100% accept at least one other language.

The top 400 of 1,840 journals, by quartile and SJR

Sorted by best SCImago quartile, then SJR. Click a column header to sort by it; click a second column to add a tiebreak. The search box narrows the list. Time to publish is the journal’s own DOAJ figure (average weeks from submission to publication).

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Languages are those the journal declares in the DOAJ as accepted for manuscripts. A journal listing several languages appears on each of their pages.

Diamond open access (also called Platinum) means the journal is free to read and free to publish in: the DOAJ records it with “APC: no” and “other fees: no”. Quartiles come from the latest SCImago edition: Q1 is the top 25% of journals in a subject category, Q4 the bottom 25%; the lists show a journal’s best quartile. Read more in our open access guide.

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