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Diamond open access journals in Social Sciences

1,864 peer-reviewed journals in Social 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.

1,864journals with no APC
384ranked Q1 (top 25%)
541ranked Q2
933ranked Q3 or Q4
624more journals charge an APC
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All 1,864 free-to-publish journals in Social 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 International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
2365-9440
Q1 7.947 97 SpringerOpen United Kingdom 6 wk
2 Journal of Remote Sensing
2694-1589
Q1 2.727 29 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) United States 16 wk
3 Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
1083-6101
Q1 2.692 153 Oxford University Press United Kingdom 15 wk
4 Campbell Systematic Reviews
1891-1803
Q1 2.46 35 SAGE Publishing United Kingdom 6 wk
5 Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
2084-1965
Q1 2.229 40 Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Poland 12 wk
6 Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2307-387X
Q1 2.144 81 The MIT Press United States 8 wk
7 Educational Technology & Society
1436-4522
Q1 2.109 125 International Forum of Educational Technology & Society Taiwan, Province of China 24 wk
8 Computational Linguistics
1530-9312
Q1 1.837 122 The MIT Press United States 50 wk
9 Energy and Built Environment
2666-1233
Q1 1.83 42 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 14 wk
10 Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
1449-5554
Q1 1.788 82 ASCILITE Australia 36 wk
11 Russian Musicology
3034-3836
Q1 1.76 1 Gnesin Russian Academy of Music Russian Federation 12 wk
12 Life Medicine
2755-1733
Q1 1.754 16 Oxford University Press United Kingdom 9 wk
13 Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English ed. Online)
2589-0379
Q1 1.73 65 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 15 wk
14 Tropical Cyclone Research and Review
2589-3025
Q1 1.568 27 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 30 wk
15 Language Learning and Technology
1094-3501
Q1 1.561 102 National Foreign Language Resource Center United States 7 wk
16 Computational Communication Research
2665-9085
Q1 1.542 17 Amsterdam University Press Netherlands 38 wk
17 RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
2377-8261
Q1 1.532 45 Russell Sage Foundation United States 53 wk
18 European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context
1989-4007
Q1 1.531 39 Sociedad Española de Psicología Jurídica y Forense Spain 12 wk
19 Europe and the World
2399-2875
Q1 1.504 7 UCL Press United Kingdom 28 wk
20 Journal of Tourism Futures
2055-592X
Q1 1.415 49 Emerald Publishing United Kingdom 34 wk
21 Digital Communications and Networks
2352-8648
Q1 1.375 68 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 30 wk
22 Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
2766-1652
Q1 1.362 37 Harvard Kennedy School United States 10 wk
23 Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles
2399-9802
Q1 1.358 23 Tsinghua University Press China 8 wk
24 Open Mind
2470-2986
Q1 1.314 15 The MIT Press United States 53 wk
25 Railway Engineering Science
2662-4753
Q1 1.278 45 SpringerOpen Germany 15 wk
26 Human-Machine Communication Journal
2638-6038
Q1 1.259 18 Communication and Social Robotics Labs United States 8 wk
27 Journal of Legal Analysis
1946-5319
Q1 1.21 21 Oxford University Press United Kingdom 16 wk
28 Journal of Political Ecology
1073-0451
Q1 1.187 48 University of Arizona Libraries United States 17 wk
29 Global Media and China
2059-4372
Q1 1.183 25 SAGE Publishing United Kingdom 15 wk
30 Internet Policy Review
2197-6775
Q1 1.15 43 Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Germany 10 wk
31 Journal of the Medical Library Association
1558-9439
Q1 1.136 82 University Library System, University of Pittsburgh United States 26 wk
32 International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
1492-3831
Q1 1.123 104 Athabasca University Press Canada 29 wk
33 Urban Informatics
2731-6963
Q1 1.104 8 Springer Singapore 30 wk
34 Chinese Journal of Population, Resources and Environment
2325-4262
Q1 1.097 29 KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. China 20 wk
35 Large-scale Assessments in Education
2196-0739
Q1 1.097 33 SpringerOpen United Kingdom 13 wk
36 Regional Sustainability
2666-660X
Q1 1.081 27 KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. China 21 wk
37 Journal of Law and the Biosciences
2053-9711
Q1 1.077 38 Oxford University Press United Kingdom 13 wk
38 Environmental Humanities
2201-1919
Q1 1.072 24 Duke University Press United States 20 wk
39 European Societies
1469-8307
Q1 1.071 64 The MIT Press United States 24 wk
40 Journal of Metaverse
2792-0232
Q1 1.054 19 İzmir Akademi Derneği Türkiye 10 wk
41 Journal of Audiovisual Translation
2617-9148
Q1 1.047 15 European Association for Studies in Screen Translation United Kingdom 30 wk
42 Нижневолжский археологический вестник
2658-5995
Q1 1.045 5 Volgograd State University Russian Federation 12 wk
43 Online Learning
2472-5730
Q1 1.034 80 Online Learning Consortium United States 30 wk
44 Health Promotion Perspectives
2228-6497
Q1 1.033 32 Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Iran, Islamic Republic of 13 wk
45 Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning
1793-7078
Q1 1.027 38 The Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) Taiwan, Province of China 13 wk
46 Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education
2693-9169
Q1 1.012 44 Taylor & Francis Group United States 12 wk
47 Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning
2397-7604
Q1 0.969 30 Emerald Publishing United Kingdom 24 wk
48 ESP Today
2334-9050
Q1 0.967 16 Faculty of Economics University of Belgrade Serbia 15 wk
49 Linguistic Typology
1613-415X
Q1 0.954 48 De Gruyter Germany 48 wk
50 Global Social Challenges Journal
2752-3349
Q1 0.949 11 Bristol University Press United Kingdom 14 wk

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Where these journals come from

Top countries of publication

  1. Spain 293
  2. Poland 149
  3. United States 116
  4. United Kingdom 105
  5. Brazil 98

Top publishers

  1. Sciendo 19
  2. Lodz University Press 18
  3. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 17
  4. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 17
  5. Berghahn Books 16

Main manuscript languages

  1. English 1,051
  2. Spanish 330
  3. Portuguese 76
  4. French 73

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 Social 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.

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

Agricultural and Biological Sciences316 free-to-publish journals · 32 Q1 Arts and Humanities1,207 free-to-publish journals · 286 Q1 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology120 free-to-publish journals · 22 Q1 Business, Management and Accounting194 free-to-publish journals · 28 Q1 Chemical Engineering52 free-to-publish journals · 12 Q1 Chemistry80 free-to-publish journals · 14 Q1 Computer Science228 free-to-publish journals · 56 Q1 Decision Sciences67 free-to-publish journals · 11 Q1 Dentistry43 free-to-publish journals · 5 Q1 Earth and Planetary Sciences187 free-to-publish journals · 32 Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance170 free-to-publish journals · 22 Q1 Energy84 free-to-publish journals · 27 Q1 Engineering315 free-to-publish journals · 70 Q1 Environmental Science225 free-to-publish journals · 27 Q1 Health Professions100 free-to-publish journals · 12 Q1 Immunology and Microbiology49 free-to-publish journals · 6 Q1 Materials Science97 free-to-publish journals · 20 Q1 Mathematics207 free-to-publish journals · 45 Q1 Medicine736 free-to-publish journals · 68 Q1 Multidisciplinary43 free-to-publish journals · 6 Q1 Neuroscience37 free-to-publish journals · 5 Q1 Nursing64 free-to-publish journals · 9 Q1 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics47 free-to-publish journals · 10 Q1 Physics and Astronomy96 free-to-publish journals · 19 Q1 Psychology158 free-to-publish journals · 27 Q1 Veterinary42 free-to-publish journals · 5 Q1