List of Free (Without APC) Journals

Discover 22585 free (no APC) journals for 2025. Explore free (no APC) options with detailed metrics, quartiles, impact factors, submission guidelines, and access types to elevate your research and publishing success.

Discover the best academic journals tailored to your research needs. Our comprehensive directory features thousands of peer-reviewed publications across various disciplines, complete with impact factors, indexing details, and open access options. Whether you're seeking high-impact Q1 journals in social sciences or free-to-publish options in engineering, our advanced filters help you find exactly what you're looking for.

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| eISSN: 2690-0645

Publication Fees: No APC (Free)

ACS ES&T Engineering publishes high-impact research and review/perspective articles in all areas of environmental technology and engineering through a...

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| eISSN: 2690-0637

Publication Fees: No APC (Free)

ACS ES&T Water is a high-quality specialist journal dedicated to water research and policy. This international, multidisciplinary journal publishes no...

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| eISSN: 2373-8227

Publication Fees: No APC (Free)

ACS Infectious Diseases is the first journal to highlight chemistry and its role in the multidisciplinary and collaborative field of infectious diseas...

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| eISSN: 2161-1653

Publication Fees: No APC (Free)

ACS Macro Letters publishes research in all areas of contemporary soft matter science in which macromolecules play a key role, including nanotechnolog...

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| eISSN: 2639-4979

Publication Fees: No APC (Free)

ACS Materials Letters publishes high quality and urgent papers on the forefront of fundamental and applied research, at the interface between material...

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ISSN: 1936-0851 | eISSN: 1936-086X

Publication Fees: No APC (Free)

Published monthly, ACS Nano is an international forum for the communication of comprehensive articles on nanoscience and nanotechnology research at th...

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| eISSN: 2330-4022

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Published as soon as accepted and summarized in monthly issues, ACS Photonics publishes Research Articles, Letters, Perspectives, and Reviews, to enco...

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| eISSN: 2379-3694

Publication Fees: No APC (Free)

ACS Sensors is a peer-reviewed research journal that is devoted to the dissemination of new and original knowledge on all aspects of sensor science th...

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| eISSN: 2161-5063

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The journal is particularly interested in studies on the design and synthesis of new genetic circuits and gene products; computational methods in the...

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ISSN: 1091-5397 | eISSN: 1536-593X

Publication Fees: No APC (Free)

ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal®, an official publication from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), is written to fulfill the information...

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ISSN: 1000-503X

Publication Fees: No APC (Free)

《中国医学科学院学报》是中国医学科学院、北京协和医学院主办的、国内外公开发行的高级综合性医学学术性期...

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ISSN: 0587-2405

Publication Fees: No APC (Free)

Acta Academica is an academic journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The journal publishes scholarly articles that examine society, cultu...

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ISSN: 1022-4793 | eISSN: 2681-4617

Publication Fees: No APC (Free)

Acta Acustica, the Journal of the European Acoustics Association (EAA), is an international, peer-reviewed journal on acoustics. Acta Acustica reports...

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