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Diamond open access journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences

187 peer-reviewed journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences 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.

187journals with no APC
32ranked Q1 (top 25%)
27ranked Q2
125ranked Q3 or Q4
272more journals charge an APC
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All 187 free-to-publish journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences

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 Living Reviews in Solar Physics
1614-4961		 Q1 8.871 79 Springer Switzerland 20 wk
2 International Journal of Mining Science and Technology
2589-062X		 Q1 3.052 94 Elsevier Netherlands 40 wk
3 Journal of Remote Sensing
2694-1589		 Q1 2.727 29 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) United States 16 wk
4 Petroleum Exploration and Development
1876-3804		 Q1 2.681 101 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 15 wk
5 Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
1674-7755		 Q1 2.542 99 Elsevier Netherlands 9 wk
6 Underground Space
2467-9674		 Q1 2.095 51 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 11 wk
7 Space: Science & Technology
2692-7659		 Q1 1.622 25 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) United States 24 wk
8 Tropical Cyclone Research and Review
2589-3025		 Q1 1.568 27 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 30 wk
9 Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research
2771-0378		 Q1 1.414 13 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) United States 15 wk
10 Natural Gas Industry B
2352-8559		 Q1 1.269 40 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 27 wk
11 Petroleum Science
1995-8226		 Q1 1.259 71 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 13 wk
12 Записки Горного института
2541-9404		 Q1 1.222 37 Saint-Petersburg Mining University Russian Federation 8 wk
13 Volcanica
2610-3540		 Q1 1.031 18 Volcanica France 21 wk
14 Shiyou shiyan dizhi
1001-6112		 Q1 0.981 22 Editorial Office of Petroleum Geology and Experiment China 42 wk
15 Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science
2206-5865		 Q1 0.938 19 CSIRO Publishing Australia 12 wk
16 International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks
2577-445X		 Q1 0.915 32 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 15 wk
17 China Geology
2589-9430		 Q1 0.902 35 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 16 wk
18 Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography
2364-3587		 Q1 0.814 11 Copernicus Publications Germany 26 wk
19 Geodesy and Geodynamics
1674-9847		 Q1 0.761 32 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 15 wk
20 Rock and Soil Mechanics
1000-7598		 Q1 0.745 73 SCIENCE PRESS , 16 DONGHUANGCHENGGEN NORTH ST, BEIJING, PEOPLES R CHINA, 100717 China 36 wk
21 Oceanologia
2300-7370		 Q1 0.733 55 Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences Poland 24 wk
22 Lethaia
1502-3931		 Q1 0.683 71 Scandinavian University Press Norway 29 wk
23 Palaeontologia Electronica
1094-8074		 Q1 0.646 51 Coquina Press United States 20 wk
24 Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia
2039-4942		 Q1 0.635 46 Milano University Press Italy 16 wk
25 Geodiversitas
1638-9395		 Q1 0.631 48 Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle France 52 wk
26 European Journal of Taxonomy
2118-9773		 Q1 0.629 29 Consortium of European Natural History Museums France 29 wk
27 Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences
1658-8185		 Q1 0.626 21 Springer Switzerland 15 wk
28 Geographica Helvetica
2194-8798		 Q1 0.506 29 Copernicus Publications Germany 53 wk
29 Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary
2279-7335		 Q1 0.406 35 AIQUA-Italian Association for Quaternary Research Italy 20 wk
30 Hungarian Geographical Bulletin
2064-5147		 Q1 0.401 24 Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Hungary 24 wk
31 Acta Geographica Slovenica
1581-8314		 Q1 0.391 30 ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC Slovenia 33 wk
32 Lucentum
1989-9904		 Q1 0.337 8 Universidad de Alicante Spain 27 wk
33 Youqicang pingjia yu kaifa
2095-1426		 Q2 0.675 13 Editorial Department of Petroleum Reservoir Evaluation and Development China 25 wk
34 Geologica Belgica
1374-8505		 Q2 0.655 29 University of Liege Belgium 15 wk
35 Comptes Rendus. Géoscience
1778-7025		 Q2 0.607 102 Académie des sciences France 18 wk
36 Nordia Geographical Publications
2736-9722		 Q2 0.603 14 The Geographical Society of Northern Finland Finland 14 wk
37 Comptes Rendus. Palevol
1777-571X		 Q2 0.556 60 Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle France 48 wk
38 Mineralogia
1899-8526		 Q2 0.556 14 Sciendo Poland 20 wk
39 Moravian Geographical Reports
2199-6202		 Q2 0.527 31 Sciendo Poland 40 wk
40 Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland
1799-4632		 Q2 0.511 28 Geological Society of Finland Finland 10 wk
41 Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering
2305-7068		 Q2 0.496 15 Groundwater Science and Engineering Limited China 28 wk
42 GEUS Bulletin
2597-2154		 Q2 0.479 37 Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Denmark 25 wk
43 Derbyana
2764-1465		 Q2 0.478 8 Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais - SIMA Brazil 20 wk
44 Annals of Geophysics
2037-416X		 Q2 0.47 73 Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) Italy 28 wk
45 Raumforschung und Raumordnung
1869-4179		 Q2 0.446 25 oekom verlag GmbH Germany 29 wk
46 Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science
2096-1650		 Q2 0.424 13 Surveying and Mapping Press China 30 wk
47 Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences
1300-0985		 Q2 0.424 55 The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) Türkiye 24 wk
48 Journal of Sustainable Mining
2300-3960		 Q2 0.423 37 Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa) Poland 16 wk
49 South African Journal of Science
1996-7489		 Q2 0.407 75 Academy of Science of South Africa South Africa 52 wk
50 Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
2660-9568		 Q2 0.405 16 Palaeontological Spanish Society Spain 12 wk

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Where these journals come from

Top countries of publication

  1. Poland 15
  2. China 13
  3. Spain 13
  4. Brazil 12
  5. France 11

Top publishers

  1. KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 8
  2. Sciendo 6
  3. Copernicus Publications 5
  4. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 4
  5. Universidad Nacional de Colombia 4

Main manuscript languages

  1. English 125
  2. Spanish 24
  3. Russian 8
  4. French 7

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 Earth and Planetary Sciences (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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