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Diamond open access journals in Environmental Science

225 peer-reviewed journals in Environmental Science 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.

225journals with no APC
27ranked Q1 (top 25%)
45ranked Q2
150ranked Q3 or Q4
485more journals charge an APC
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All 225 free-to-publish journals in Environmental Science

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 Carbon Neutrality
2731-3948		 Q1 2.179 28 Springer Switzerland 10 wk
2 Nexus
2950-1601		 Q1 2.16 11 Elsevier United States 16 wk
3 Tropical Cyclone Research and Review
2589-3025		 Q1 1.568 27 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 30 wk
4 Biofuel Research Journal
2292-8782		 Q1 1.485 54 Alpha Creation Enterprise Malaysia 8 wk
5 Journal of Tourism Futures
2055-592X		 Q1 1.415 49 Emerald Publishing United Kingdom 34 wk
6 Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research
2771-0378		 Q1 1.414 13 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) United States 15 wk
7 Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
2530-0644		 Q1 1.376 55 Elsevier Netherlands 45 wk
8 Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities
2731-9032		 Q1 1.361 14 Springer Singapore 15 wk
9 Journal of Political Ecology
1073-0451		 Q1 1.187 48 University of Arizona Libraries United States 17 wk
10 Internet Policy Review
2197-6775		 Q1 1.15 43 Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Germany 10 wk
11 Urban Informatics
2731-6963		 Q1 1.104 8 Springer Singapore 30 wk
12 Chinese Journal of Population, Resources and Environment
2325-4262		 Q1 1.097 29 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 20 wk
13 Environmental Humanities
2201-1919		 Q1 1.072 24 Duke University Press United States 20 wk
14 Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science
2206-5865		 Q1 0.938 19 CSIRO Publishing Australia 12 wk
15 International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks
2577-445X		 Q1 0.915 32 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 15 wk
16 Solar Energy and Sustainable Development
2414-6013		 Q1 0.902 12 Libyan Center for Solar Energy REsearch and Studies Libya 20 wk
17 Aquaculture and Fisheries
2468-550X		 Q1 0.901 41 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 19 wk
18 Clean Energy
2515-396X		 Q1 0.878 35 Oxford University Press United Kingdom 10 wk
19 Low-Carbon Materials and Green Construction
2731-6319		 Q1 0.868 11 Springer Singapore 12 wk
20 Environment and Society
2150-6787		 Q1 0.854 28 Berghahn Books United States 18 wk
21 International Journal of Fluid Engineering
2994-9017		 Q1 0.816 8 AIP Publishing LLC United States 16 wk
22 Nordic Journal of Media Studies
2003-184X		 Q1 0.803 11 Sciendo Poland 25 wk
23 Web Ecology
1399-1183		 Q1 0.768 26 Copernicus Publications Germany 17 wk
24 Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics
1338-4333		 Q1 0.668 41 Sciendo Poland 8 wk
25 Geographica Helvetica
2194-8798		 Q1 0.506 29 Copernicus Publications Germany 53 wk
26 Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics
1611-8014		 Q1 0.388 25 Inter-Research Germany 40 wk
27 Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña
2237-2717		 Q1 0.211 9 UniEVANGELICA Brazil 24 wk
28 Comparative Immunology Reports
2950-3116		 Q2 0.723 17 Elsevier United Kingdom 12 wk
29 Comptes Rendus. Géoscience
1778-7025		 Q2 0.607 102 Académie des sciences France 18 wk
30 Journal of King Saud University: Engineering Sciences
2213-1558		 Q2 0.601 65 Springer Switzerland 18 wk
31 San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
1546-2366		 Q2 0.581 28 eScholarship Publishing, University of California United States 24 wk
32 iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry
1971-7458		 Q2 0.513 44 Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF) Italy 40 wk
33 Water Science
2357-0008		 Q2 0.507 31 Springer Nature Switzerland 18 wk
34 Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering
2305-7068		 Q2 0.496 15 Groundwater Science and Engineering Limited China 28 wk
35 Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems
1961-9502		 Q2 0.475 41 EDP Sciences France 12 wk
36 UCL Open Environment
2632-0886		 Q2 0.472 11 UCL Press United Kingdom 25 wk
37 Biogeographia
2475-5257		 Q2 0.47 13 eScholarship Publishing, University of California United States 28 wk
38 Mires and Peat
1819-754X		 Q2 0.46 27 International Mire Conservation Group and International Peatland Society Germany 50 wk
39 Journal of Pollination Ecology
1920-7603		 Q2 0.448 11 Enviroquest Ltd. Canada 17 wk
40 Limnetica
1989-1806		 Q2 0.446 41 Asociación Ibérica de Limnología Spain 24 wk
41 Raumforschung und Raumordnung
1869-4179		 Q2 0.446 25 oekom verlag GmbH Germany 29 wk
42 Journal of Sustainable Mining
2300-3960		 Q2 0.423 37 Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa) Poland 16 wk
43 Bio-based and Applied Economics
2280-6172		 Q2 0.422 25 Firenze University Press Italy 8 wk
44 Annals of Forest Research
2065-2445		 Q2 0.419 29 ‘Marin Drăcea’ National Research-Development Institute in Forestry Romania 12 wk
45 Ecología Austral
1667-782X		 Q2 0.397 37 Asociación Argentina de Ecología Argentina 47 wk
46 Folia Oecologica
1338-7014		 Q2 0.388 17 Sciendo Poland 38 wk
47 Annals of Silvicultural Research
2284-354X		 Q2 0.387 18 Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria - Research Centre for Forestry and Wood Italy 20 wk
48 Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica
1697-9540		 Q2 0.387 31 Universidad de La Rioja Spain 30 wk
49 State Crime
2046-6064		 Q2 0.386 13 Pluto Journals United Kingdom 32 wk
50 Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука
2500-008X		 Q2 0.383 20 Fund for Support and Development of Protected Areas "Bear Land" Russian Federation 20 wk

Showing the first 50. The interactive finder adds live Scopus checks, CSV export and shareable filter links.

Where these journals come from

Top countries of publication

  1. Iran, Islamic Republic of 18
  2. Poland 15
  3. Spain 13
  4. Italy 13
  5. United States 12

Top publishers

  1. Sciendo 7
  2. Springer 5
  3. Elsevier 5
  4. KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 4
  5. EDP Sciences 4

Main manuscript languages

  1. English 173
  2. Spanish 19
  3. Russian 5
  4. Persian 5

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 Environmental Science (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.

Before submitting, always confirm the journal on its own website and in the DOAJ, verify Scopus indexing by ISSN with the Scopus check rather than trusting claims on the journal's site, and be wary of look-alike titles.

Other subject areas

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