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Diamond open access journals in Arts and Humanities

1,207 peer-reviewed journals in Arts and Humanities are free to publish in: no article processing charge and no other author fees, according to the DOAJ. All of them are indexed in Scopus and ranked below by their SCImago quartile and SJR score. Data snapshot: August 2026.

1,207journals with no APC
286ranked Q1 (top 25%)
380ranked Q2
539ranked Q3 or Q4
144more journals charge an APC
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All 1,207 free-to-publish journals in Arts and Humanities

Sorted by best SCImago quartile, then SJR. Click a column header to sort by it; click a second column to add a tiebreak (sort levels combine in the order you pick them). Click a column again to reverse it, a third time to remove it. The search box narrows the list. Publication time is the journal's own DOAJ figure for the average number of weeks from submission to publication.

#JournalQuartileSJRH-indexPublisherCountryTime to publish
1 Russian Musicology
3034-3836		 Q1 1.76 1 Gnesin Russian Academy of Music Russian Federation 12 wk
2 Life Medicine
2755-1733		 Q1 1.754 16 Oxford University Press United Kingdom 9 wk
3 Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art
2524-4442		 Q1 1.188 29 SpringerOpen Singapore 5 wk
4 Нижневолжский археологический вестник
2658-5995		 Q1 1.045 5 Volgograd State University Russian Federation 12 wk
5 Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
2330-4014		 Q1 0.951 11 Michigan Publishing United States 26 wk
6 Ahkam: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah
2407-8646		 Q1 0.896 16 Faculty Sharia & Law Indonesia 4 wk
7 Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии
2071-0437		 Q1 0.773 8 Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RA Russian Federation 16 wk
8 América Latina Hoy
2340-4396		 Q1 0.725 14 Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca Spain 5 wk
9 Уфимский археологический вестник
2782-2842		 Q1 0.689 4 Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa Federal Research Center Russian Federation 12 wk
10 Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья
2713-2021		 Q1 0.683 8 Cimmeria Publishing Israel 5 wk
11 Documenta Praehistorica
1854-2492		 Q1 0.671 27 University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) Slovenia 12 wk
12 Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
2699-0369		 Q1 0.647 18 MIND Group Germany 24 wk
13 Поволжская археология
2500-2856		 Q1 0.646 9 Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan, A.Kh. Khalikov Archaeology Institute Russian Federation 8 wk
14 Syariah: Jurnal Hukum dan Pemikiran
2549-001X		 Q1 0.634 10 UIN Antasari Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan Indonesia 8 wk
15 Al-Istinbath: Jurnal Hukum Islam
2548-3382		 Q1 0.604 12 Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Curup Indonesia 12 wk
16 Virtual Archaeology Review
1989-9947		 Q1 0.599 22 Universitat Politècnica de València Spain 20 wk
17 Asian Studies
2350-4226		 Q1 0.562 12 University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) Slovenia 12 wk
18 Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies
2338-557X		 Q1 0.561 19 State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga Indonesia 6 wk
19 Anuario de Estudios Americanos
1988-4273		 Q1 0.555 11 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Spain 48 wk
20 Built Heritage
2662-6802		 Q1 0.532 17 SpringerOpen United Kingdom 12 wk
21 Translation and Interpreting : the International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research
1836-9324		 Q1 0.53 28 Western Sydney University Australia 40 wk
22 Social Analysis
1558-5727		 Q1 0.526 39 Berghahn Books United States 12 wk
23 She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation
2405-8726		 Q1 0.525 31 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 20 wk
24 Teoría de la Educación: Revista Interuniversitaria
2386-5660		 Q1 0.525 19 Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca Spain 4 wk
25 Psychology in Russia: State of Art
2307-2202		 Q1 0.514 19 M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Federation 14 wk
26 European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
1879-4750		 Q1 0.501 23 CEDLA Netherlands 16 wk
27 Слово.ру: балтийский акцент
2686-8989		 Q1 0.494 7 Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russian Federation 20 wk
28 Journal of Writing Research
2294-3307		 Q1 0.49 37 University of Antwerp Belgium 40 wk
29 Современные проблемы музыкознания
2587-9731		 Q1 0.49 2 Gnesin Russian Academy of Music Russian Federation 12 wk
30 Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu Al-Qur'an dan Hadis
2548-4737		 Q1 0.487 7 Faculty of Usuluddin and Islamic Thought, State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga Indonesia 11 wk
31 Baltic Region
2310-0524		 Q1 0.48 12 Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russian Federation 24 wk
32 Trabajos de Prehistoria
1988-3218		 Q1 0.477 30 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Spain 48 wk
33 Informal Logic
2293-734X		 Q1 0.475 25 University of Windsor Canada 12 wk
34 Tejuelo: Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura
1988-8430		 Q1 0.474 10 Universidad de Extremadura Spain 20 wk
35 RUDN Journal of Russian History
2312-8690		 Q1 0.47 6 Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) Russian Federation 12 wk
36 Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society
2364-2807		 Q1 0.469 9 Brill Netherlands 24 wk
37 Zygon
1467-9744		 Q1 0.467 33 Open Library of Humanities United Kingdom 23 wk
38 Music Theory Online
1067-3040		 Q1 0.46 14 Society for Music Theory United States 42 wk
39 Археология евразийских степей
2618-9488		 Q1 0.458 7 State institution «Tatarstan Аcademy of Sciences» Russian Federation 12 wk
40 International Journal of TESOL Studies
2633-6898		 Q1 0.451 8 Cranmore Publishing United Kingdom 8 wk
41 Traditiones
1855-6396		 Q1 0.445 12 ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC Slovenia 36 wk
42 Scientia et Fides
2353-5636		 Q1 0.441 11 Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika Poland 10 wk
43 Bulletin of the Section of Logic
2449-836X		 Q1 0.439 17 Lodz University Press Poland 32 wk
44 Ocnos
2254-9099		 Q1 0.435 18 Universidad de Castilla, La Mancha Spain 20 wk
45 Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning
2000-4389		 Q1 0.427 5 Svenska Barnboksinstitutet Sweden 20 wk
46 Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo
2453-9759		 Q1 0.425 9 Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, o.z. Slovakia 30 wk
47 Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture
2195-2965		 Q1 0.424 15 De Gruyter Germany 20 wk
48 Études et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
2449-9579		 Q1 0.418 9 Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences Poland 42 wk
49 Social Anthropology
1469-8676		 Q1 0.418 58 Berghahn Books United States 12 wk
50 Народы и религии Евразии
2686-8040		 Q1 0.413 3 Altai State University Russian Federation 10 wk

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Where these journals come from

Top countries of publication

  1. Spain 252
  2. Poland 114
  3. Italy 85
  4. Russian Federation 55
  5. Czechia 47

Top publishers

  1. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 22
  2. Universidad Complutense de Madrid 21
  3. Lodz University Press 15
  4. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 13
  5. Istanbul University Press 12

Main manuscript languages

  1. English 517
  2. Spanish 282
  3. French 51
  4. Portuguese 50

About this list

Diamond open access (also called Platinum) means the journal is free to read and free to publish in. The journals above are those the DOAJ records with "APC: no" and "other fees: no" and that SCImago lists under the subject area Arts and Humanities (a journal can belong to several areas). Quartiles come from SCImago's SJR ranking for the latest edition: Q1 is the top 25% of journals in a category, Q4 the bottom 25%. Journals that are in the DOAJ but not in Scopus have no quartile and are not counted here; the finder can show them too.

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