1,864 free-to-publish Scopus journals in Social Sciences

1,864 peer-reviewed journals in Social Sciences are Diamond open access: 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: 381 are Q1 and 543 Q2. Data snapshot: October 2026.

Of the Scopus-ranked journals here, 50% are Q1 or Q2 (site-wide: 40%). Their median self-reported time from submission to publication is 20 weeks. Most are published in Spain (293), Poland (148) and United States (117). 88% accept manuscripts in English and 65% accept at least one other language.

The top 400 of 1,864 journals, by quartile and SJR

Sorted by best SCImago quartile, then SJR. Click a column header to sort by it; click a second column to add a tiebreak. The search box narrows the list. Time to publish is the journal’s own DOAJ figure (average weeks from submission to publication).

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Showing the first 400. The interactive finder adds live Scopus checks, CSV export and shareable filters.

Where these journals come from

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About this list

This list contains the journals that SCImago assigns to the subject area Social Sciences (a journal can belong to several areas) and that the DOAJ lists with no APC and no other fees. Journals in the DOAJ but not in Scopus have no quartile and are not counted here; the finder can show them too.

Diamond open access (also called Platinum) means the journal is free to read and free to publish in: the DOAJ records it with “APC: no” and “other fees: no”. Quartiles come from the latest SCImago edition: Q1 is the top 25% of journals in a subject category, Q4 the bottom 25%; the lists show a journal’s best quartile. Read more in our open access guide.

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 watch out for look-alike titles (see the predatory journal checklist).

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