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Diamond open access journals in Materials Science

97 peer-reviewed journals in Materials 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.

97journals with no APC
20ranked Q1 (top 25%)
25ranked Q2
51ranked Q3 or Q4
300more journals charge an APC
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All 97 free-to-publish journals in Materials 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 Nano Research Energy
2790-8119
Q1 4.016 49 Tsinghua University Press China 8 wk
2 Energy Material Advances
2692-7640
Q1 3.459 39 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) United States 21 wk
3 Energy Materials and Devices
3005-3064
Q1 2.849 15 Tsinghua University Press China 6 wk
4 Nano Materials Science
2589-9651
Q1 2.441 54 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 12 wk
5 Materials Futures
2752-5724
Q1 2.341 34 IOP Publishing United Kingdom 20 wk
6 CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems
2096-0042
Q1 2.24 59 China electric power research institute China 26 wk
7 Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research
2542-5048
Q1 2.209 49 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 15 wk
8 Light: Advanced Manufacturing
2689-9620
Q1 2.13 37 Light Publishing Group China 22 wk
9 Nano Trends
2666-9781
Q1 1.317 14 Elsevier United Kingdom 13 wk
10 Facta Universitatis. Series: Mechanical Engineering
2335-0164
Q1 1.271 47 University of Niš Serbia 7 wk
11 Next Energy
2949-821X
Q1 1.101 16 Elsevier United Kingdom 15 wk
12 International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture
2588-8404
Q1 1.039 41 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 11 wk
13 Frontiers of Optoelectronics
2095-2767
Q1 1.013 41 Higher Education Press China 8 wk
14 Defence Technology
2214-9147
Q1 1.01 69 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 13 wk
15 Quantum Frontiers
2731-6106
Q1 0.957 11 Springer Singapore 10 wk
16 RSC Applied Polymers
2755-371X
Q1 0.904 15 Royal Society of Chemistry United Kingdom 13 wk
17 Computational Materials Today
2950-4635
Q1 0.872 6 Elsevier United Kingdom 9 wk
18 JCIS Open
2666-934X
Q1 0.781 19 Elsevier Netherlands 17 wk
19 Next Materials
2949-8228
Q1 0.776 20 Elsevier United Kingdom 16 wk
20 Energetic Materials Frontiers
2666-6472
Q1 0.745 25 KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. China 12 wk
21 RSC Applied Interfaces
2755-3701
Q2 0.742 12 The Royal Society of Chemistry United Kingdom 10 wk
22 Next Nanotechnology
2949-8295
Q2 0.74 15 Elsevier United Kingdom 20 wk
23 Photonic Sensors
2190-7439
Q2 0.734 53 Tsinghua University Press China 13 wk
24 Journal of Advanced Dielectrics
2010-1368
Q2 0.661 32 World Scientific Publishing Singapore 18 wk
25 Journal of King Saud University: Engineering Sciences
2213-1558
Q2 0.601 65 Springer Switzerland 18 wk
26 Biomaterial Investigations in Dentistry
2641-5275
Q2 0.591 19 Medical Journals Sweden Sweden 14 wk
27 Journal of Magnetic Resonance Open
2666-4410
Q2 0.578 13 Elsevier United States 16 wk
28 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
29 Journal of Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies
2458-973X
Q2 0.53 11 Yildiz Technical University Türkiye 8 wk
30 Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
2190-4286
Q2 0.508 93 Beilstein-Institut Germany 23 wk
31 KONA Powder and Particle Journal
2187-5537
Q2 0.497 51 Hosokawa Powder Technology Foundation Japan 14 wk
32 Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems
2773-0646
Q2 0.488 15 Elsevier United Kingdom 23 wk
33 Materiales de Construccion
1988-3226
Q2 0.478 47 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Spain 48 wk
34 Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering
2589-5540
Q2 0.448 27 AIP Publishing LLC United States 14 wk
35 Zhongguo kongjian kexue jishu
1000-758X
Q2 0.429 20 China Academy of Space Technology China 50 wk
36 ETRI Journal
2233-7326
Q2 0.42 54 Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) Korea, Republic of 8 wk
37 eXPRESS Polymer Letters
1788-618X
Q2 0.388 95 Budapest University of Technology and Economics Hungary 14 wk
38 Nanomedicine Journal
2322-5904
Q2 0.38 18 Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Iran, Islamic Republic of 12 wk
39 Johnson Matthey Technology Review
2056-5135
Q2 0.357 64 Johnson Matthey Plc United Kingdom 12 wk
40 Maderas: Ciencia y Tecnología
0718-221X
Q2 0.335 42 Universidad del Bío-Bío Chile 20 wk
41 Acta Metallurgica Slovaca
1338-1156
Q2 0.334 18 SciCell s.r.o. Slovakia 12 wk
42 Integritet i Vek Konstrukcija
1820-7863
Q2 0.325 19 Institute for Materials Testing, Belgrade Serbia 12 wk
43 Science of Sintering
1820-7413
Q2 0.325 32 International Institute for the Science of Sintering, Beograd Serbia 24 wk
44 Mechanics of Advanced Composite Structures
2423-7043
Q2 0.289 11 Semnan University Iran, Islamic Republic of 24 wk
45 Revista Hábitat Sustentable
0719-0700
Q2 0.216 7 Universidad del Bío Bío Chile 17 wk
46 Journal of Electrochemical Science and Engineering
1847-9286
Q3 0.391 26 International Association of Physical Chemists (IAPC) Croatia 6 wk
47 Journal of Water and Environmental Nanotechnology
2476-6615
Q3 0.389 16 Iranian Environmental Mutagen Society Iran, Islamic Republic of 8 wk
48 Periodica Polytechnica: Chemical Engineering
1587-3765
Q3 0.351 32 Budapest University of Technology Hungary 15 wk
49 Tribology Online
1881-2198
Q3 0.314 25 Japanese Society of Tribologists Japan 23 wk
50 Progress in Color, Colorants and Coatings
2383-1790
Q3 0.312 25 Institute for Color Science and Technology Iran, Islamic Republic of 10 wk

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Where these journals come from

Top countries of publication

  1. China 12
  2. Iran, Islamic Republic of 12
  3. United Kingdom 11
  4. Russian Federation 9
  5. Ukraine 8

Top publishers

  1. Elsevier 8
  2. KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 4
  3. Tsinghua University Press 3
  4. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2
  5. G. V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics of the N.A.S. of Ukraine 2

Main manuscript languages

  1. English 81
  2. Ukrainian 5
  3. Russian 5
  4. Spanish 2

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 Materials 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.

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