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Diamond open access journals in Chemical Engineering

52 peer-reviewed journals in Chemical Engineering 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.

52journals with no APC
12ranked Q1 (top 25%)
12ranked Q2
27ranked Q3 or Q4
157more journals charge an APC
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All 52 free-to-publish journals in Chemical Engineering

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 ACS Central Science
2374-7951
Q1 2.684 166 American Chemical Society United States 10 wk
2 Nano Materials Science
2589-9651
Q1 2.441 54 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 12 wk
3 Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research
2542-5048
Q1 2.209 49 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 15 wk
4 Biofuel Research Journal
2292-8782
Q1 1.485 54 Alpha Creation Enterprise Malaysia 8 wk
5 Grain & Oil Science and Technology
2590-2598
Q1 1.473 26 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 12 wk
6 Collagen and Leather
2731-6998
Q1 1.449 33 SpringerOpen United Kingdom 20 wk
7 Natural Gas Industry B
2352-8559
Q1 1.269 40 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 27 wk
8 Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
2288-8721
Q1 0.892 10 Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society Korea, Republic of 15 wk
9 International Journal of Fluid Engineering
2994-9017
Q1 0.816 8 AIP Publishing LLC United States 16 wk
10 JCIS Open
2666-934X
Q1 0.781 19 Elsevier Netherlands 17 wk
11 Energetic Materials Frontiers
2666-6472
Q1 0.745 25 KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. China 12 wk
12 Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics
1338-4333
Q1 0.668 41 Sciendo Poland 8 wk
13 Journal of King Saud University: Engineering Sciences
2213-1558
Q2 0.601 65 Springer Switzerland 18 wk
14 Food Technology and Biotechnology
1334-2606
Q2 0.551 88 University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology Croatia 24 wk
15 Science and Technology for Energy Transition
2804-7699
Q2 0.535 81 EDP Sciences France 8 wk
16 Успехи физики металлов
2617-0795
Q2 0.533 18 G. V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics of the N.A.S. of Ukraine Ukraine 13 wk
17 KONA Powder and Particle Journal
2187-5537
Q2 0.497 51 Hosokawa Powder Technology Foundation Japan 14 wk
18 Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Research
2383-3068
Q2 0.411 11 Semnan University Iran, Islamic Republic of 20 wk
19 eXPRESS Polymer Letters
1788-618X
Q2 0.388 95 Budapest University of Technology and Economics Hungary 14 wk
20 Nanomedicine Journal
2322-5904
Q2 0.38 18 Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Iran, Islamic Republic of 12 wk
21 Johnson Matthey Technology Review
2056-5135
Q2 0.357 64 Johnson Matthey Plc United Kingdom 12 wk
22 New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science
1179-5395
Q2 0.344 39 Scion New Zealand 39 wk
23 Maderas: Ciencia y Tecnología
0718-221X
Q2 0.335 42 Universidad del Bío-Bío Chile 20 wk
24 Communications in Science and Technology
2502-9266
Q2 0.327 15 Komunitas Ilmuwan dan Profesional Muslim Indonesia Indonesia 24 wk
25 Journal of Electrochemical Science and Engineering
1847-9286
Q3 0.391 26 International Association of Physical Chemists (IAPC) Croatia 6 wk
26 Egyptian Journal of Petroleum
2090-2468
Q3 0.388 73 Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute Egypt 10 wk
27 Journal of Thermal Engineering
2148-7847
Q3 0.321 26 Yildiz Technical University Türkiye 10 wk
28 Progress in Color, Colorants and Coatings
2383-1790
Q3 0.312 25 Institute for Color Science and Technology Iran, Islamic Republic of 10 wk
29 ARO-The Scientific Journal of Koya University
2307-549X
Q3 0.311 12 Koya University Iraq 8 wk
30 Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly
1846-5153
Q3 0.309 56 Croatian Society of Chemical Engineers Croatia 48 wk
31 Journal of Membrane Science and Research
2476-5406
Q3 0.289 28 Membrane Processes Research Laboratory (MPRL) Iran, Islamic Republic of 8 wk
32 Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
2423-6721
Q3 0.254 9 University of Tehran Iran, Islamic Republic of 8 wk
33 Comptes Rendus. Chimie
1878-1543
Q3 0.25 96 Académie des sciences France 20 wk
34 Naše More (Dubrovnik)
1848-6320
Q3 0.25 23 University of Dubrovnik Croatia 15 wk
35 Cybernetics and Physics
2226-4116
Q3 0.239 13 IPME Russian Federation 10 wk
36 Journal of Techniques
2708-8383
Q3 0.228 12 middle technical university Iraq 6 wk
37 Nanochemistry Research
2423-818X
Q3 0.21 11 Iranian Chemical Society Iran, Islamic Republic of 11 wk
38 Indian Journal of Chemical Technology
0975-0991
Q3 0.209 45 CSIr-National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research India 16 wk
39 Chimica Techno Acta
2411-1414
Q4 0.196 9 Ural Federal University Russian Federation 4 wk
40 Orbital: The Electronic Journal of Chemistry
1984-6428
Q4 0.185 16 Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Brazil 10 wk
41 Тонкие химические технологии
2686-7575
Q4 0.184 9 MIREA - Russian Technological University Russian Federation 8 wk
42 Indian Journal of Fibre & Textile Research
0975-1025
Q4 0.182 54 CSIR-NIScPR India 36 wk
43 Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
1857-5625
Q4 0.182 23 Society of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia North Macedonia 6 wk
44 Хімія, фізика та технологія поверхні
2518-1238
Q4 0.164 9 Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry of NAS of Ukraine Ukraine 24 wk
45 Polyolefins Journal
2345-6868
Q4 0.163 10 Iran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute Iran, Islamic Republic of 15 wk
46 CT&F Ciencia, Tecnología & Futuro
2382-4581
Q4 0.155 21 Instituto Colombiano del petróleo y energías de la Transición - ICPET Colombia 24 wk
47 Сорбционные и хроматографические процессы
1680-0613
Q4 0.154 7 Voronezh State University Russian Federation 10 wk
48 Chemistry Journal of Moldova: General, Industrial and Ecological Chemistry
2345-1688
Q4 0.152 14 Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Institute of Chemistry Moldova, Republic of 12 wk
49 فناوری‌های جدید در صنعت غذا
2783-1760
Q4 0.152 4 Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) Iran, Islamic Republic of 20 wk
50 Applied and Computational Mechanics
2336-1182
Q4 0.141 9 University of West Bohemia in Pilsen Czechia 16 wk

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Where these journals come from

Top countries of publication

  1. Iran, Islamic Republic of 8
  2. China 5
  3. Croatia 4
  4. Russian Federation 4
  5. United States 3

Top publishers

  1. KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 4
  2. Sciendo 2
  3. EDP Sciences 1
  4. Hosokawa Powder Technology Foundation 1
  5. KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. 1

Main manuscript languages

  1. English 46
  2. Ukrainian 2
  3. Russian 2
  4. Croatian 1

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 Chemical Engineering (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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