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.
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.
| # | Journal | Quartile | SJR | H-index | Publisher | Country | Time 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 |
| 51 | International Journal of Nuclear Security 2376-9955 |
Q4 | 0.133 | 5 | Institute for Nuclear Security | United States | 8 wk |
| 52 | Contributions to Tobacco and Nicotine Research 2719-9509 |
– | – | 20 | Sciendo | Poland | 14 wk |
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Where these journals come from
Top countries of publication
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 8
- China 5
- Croatia 4
- Russian Federation 4
- United States 3
Top publishers
- KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 4
- Sciendo 2
- EDP Sciences 1
- Hosokawa Powder Technology Foundation 1
- KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. 1
Main manuscript languages
- English 46
- Ukrainian 2
- Russian 2
- 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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