The list of journals depends on the subject of your manuscript.  Here is a web page to help you determine which journals to avoid:

      http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/

can check the newspapers worldwide, with most of them free

http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php

Dear Annal,

You will find a lot of journals which are publishing not only review articles but research articles with in a month; in fact they can publish within a week.  But the publishers don't have that reputation and not widely accepted by international research community. 

I would suggest you that you should submit your work in peer reviewed journals and wait for the reviewers comments. It will also help you to learn and will boost your confidence.

Good Luck.

Another list of grey-zone open access publishers is found here:

http://www.lub.lu.se/en/publish/open-access/freely-accessible-journals/grey-zone-oa-publishing-houses.html

It all comes down to what you mean by "free journals". Do you mean "without charge" or "open access"? Both would qualify as "free" I suppose.

It depends on research area. You can see IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics Part-C, if it fits to your interest area.

Beware of predatory journals. Such journals will promise to publish your work at the fastest time possible but may end up just taking your money.

At the end of the day, a credible, peer-reviewed journal will provide the right amount of time in reviewing articles. Find those kinds of journals.

I know this will be one of the topics to be discussed in the international convention of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors (APAME). If you can, register and participate. Better yet, send in your abstract.

http://goo.gl/wkVTiy

Please be careful about publishing your research. Nowadays there are so many junk journals which can publish your paper within a week.

Please remember, quality is more valued than quantity in academia.

Dear Annal Abel,

Recently, I did a little research on Computer Science Journals List, Review Speed, Impact Factors, and Open Access Fee from Elsevier, Springer, and Hindawi. Please find them at the attached links.

Hope this would help.

Cheers.

https://www.academia.edu/16582895/Elsevier_Computer_Science_Journals_List_Review_Speed_Impact_Factors_and_Open_Access_Fee

https://www.academia.edu/16583166/Springer_Computer_Science_Journals_List_Review_Speed_Impact_Factors_and_Open_Access_Fee

https://www.academia.edu/16583258/Hindawi_Computer_Science_Journals_List_Review_Speed_Impact_Factors_and_Open_Access_Fee

Dear Annal Abel, 

I compared the Review Speed, Impact Factor, and Open Access Fee from Elsevier, Springer, and Hindawi. The results are as follows:

Average Review Speed (in months):

Elsevier: 7.676

Springer: 2.640

Hindawi: 2.564

Average Impact Factors:

Elsevier: 1.900

Springer: 1.266

Hindawi: 0.319

Open Access Fee:

Elsevier: 2400 USD

Springer: 3000 USD

Hindawai: 877 USD

What is interesting, the difference of average impact between Elsevier and Springer is only 0.766 but Springer is about 5 months faster. If we wanted open access publication in Springer, however, we need to add USD 600 more.

In case of Hindawi, most of Hindawi's Journal does not have impact factors. For such Journals, the open access publication fee might cost USD 600 - 800 and some even free. When they do have impact factor, however, they cost USD 2000. I wonder why they charge us (as authors) more, where in fact the authors are the ones that have helped them to get their paper got the impact factors (smile) ? I think it would be better to provide discount for authors that already publish they work in the Journals (just my two cents).

Dear Annal Abel,

I updated the Elsevier list with a new column: Acceptance Rate, based on Elsevier Journal Finder results. In my view, there is a correlation between the Impact Factors and Acceptance Rate. As writers, we generally want a good Impact Factors Journal with higher Acceptance Rate. Thus, I make a new column, i.e., Acceptance Rate times Average Impact Factors. Hope this would be helpful.

The updated file can be accessed at the following link:

https://www.academia.edu/16582895/Elsevier_Computer_Science_Journals_List_Review_Speed_Impact_Factors_Open_Access_Fee_and_Acceptance_Rate

Dear Friends,

I have just finished my little research on IEEE Transactions and Journals Impact Factors, Review Speed, and Open Access fee. I hope this would help anyone that preparing to submit a journal article to IEEE. 

https://www.academia.edu/18717832/IEEE_Transactions_and_Journals_List_Review_Speed_Impact_Factors_and_Open_Access_Fee

https://www.academia.edu/18716160/IEEE_Transactions_and_Journals_Review_Time_Analysis

African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND)

Agricultural and Food Science

BioMed Research International

Carbohydrates polymer

Cereal Chemistry

Critical reviews in food science and nutrition

Egypt. J. Agric. Res.

Food Analytical Methods

Food Chemistry.

Food Hydrocolloids.

food processing and technology

Food Research International

Food quality and preference

Food Technology and Biotechnology

Innovative Romanian Food Biotechnology

International Food Research Journal

International journal of biological macromolecules

International Journal of Food Properties.

International Journal of Food Science and Nutrition.

International journal of Food science and Technology

Journal of Agroalimentary Processes and Technologies

Journal of food and drug analysis

Journal of Food and agricultural chemistry

Journal of Food Processing and Preservation

Journal of food science and technology

Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

LWT - Food Science and Technology.

Pakistan Journal of Nutrition,

Trends in Food Science and Technology

MECS-Press have to published open access without any charge

I was sent here http://www.ijlst.org/

http://www.jmbfs.org/ 

It depends on the purpose and objectives of your publication that will help to determine the selection of journal type. 

If you want reputable journals with ISI and SCOPUS ranking usually takes longer time.

Please check out: http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/

Publishers indexed in Scopus - https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/content

All Ze Best! :) 

Try mayfeb journal or international knowledge press. 

You may try in International Annals of Science at https://journals.aijr.in/index.php/ias 

https://journals.aijr.in/index.php/ias

Try IJSRK

Dear All,

Good morning, I think, this link is so useful:

http://journalfinder.elsevier.com/

Regards, Emad

http://journalfinder.elsevier.com/

Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources. You may please send your review to: [email protected]

http://indianjournals.com/Mobile/JournalDetails.aspx?target=journal&ccode=ijpgr&paid=True&type=browse

On above link you can search for Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources. Your review can be sent to : [email protected]

http://www.ijpph.org/index.php/ijpph

Yes, Good Question

see this Reference1

https://www.editage.com/insights/a-list-of-journals-and-publishers-that-offer-rapid-publication

thanks for your valuable information

I came to know that there are bunch of Indian based journals that publish articles for free. But so far I haven't got access of them.

Do not try to publish with less reputed paid journals - most of them are predatory - take your time and publish with some reputed journals.

can we get a list of such reputed journals?

You can take a look at this link

https://doaj.org/

good info

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you so much in advance for invitation, my recommendation is to follow the links below:

Regards, Emad

https://www.scimagojr.com

http://journalfinder.elsevier.com/

I am also searching a genuine journal to publish research in Microbiology/bacteriology

Dear Annal,

If you're in the IT or computer science - look at Journals in these area. 

This is my 1st Literature Review publication - Check out the publisher and I like it since it's open access too. - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317412296_THE_LITERATURE_REVIEW_OF_TECHNOLOGY_ADOPTION_MODELS_AND_THEORIES_FOR_THE_NOVELTY_TECHNOLOGY

Best Regards,

PC

Article THE LITERATURE REVIEW OF TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION MODELS AND THEO...

Do not publish with above mentioned IOSR journals, It seems like predatory journal. Either choose good journals from elsevier or  Springer.

Cheap journals come with big penalty. Think about using Elsevier.

IJAST:SERSC

I asking to publish biotechnological work in free of cost scientific journal.

Ed Open

https://benthamopen.com/index.php

 in springer also we gave to pay 3000 dollars... Any fee journal in springer

In springer also we have to pay 3000 dollars.. It huge... Any free journals in springer.?

The challenge is that financing research publication by most scientist/researchers in Africa requires huge finance, unlike in Europe and America were access to grant is always available. 

one should be updated with the Scopus database as some of the journals are removed every year and it's better to go for Elsevier for better transparency.

You need to search for metrics in Elsevier for better understanding on which journal will respond fast

Rather go for Elsevier or Springer. You can actually publish without paying if you are not selecting open access option.

 @Oluwaseun Ruth Alara , You are right, even many open access journals available with free publication. take a look at AIJR Publisher's journal at https://journals.aijr.in

https://journals.aijr.in/index.php

List of scopus indexed Journal Released in June 2017

https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/excel_doc/0015/91122/ext_list_June_2017.xlsx

I recommend springer or Elsevier

Try with MECS PRESS Journals

www.mecs-press.org

Fast publication near;y with in a month. Open access and no publication fee

i would suggest you to send your work to good journals only...but in case of review it becomes sometime difficult to publish...IJASTt(multidisciplanry -SERSC society)is a good free reputed journal..which review the research article properly and also forward(publish) the research paper to one of its "area specific journal"..if suitable

So called journal asked papers and they do not respond then after, they also asked printing charges etc. The authors prepared their papers within many weeks, months and years. How to believe reality of the journals?

you can try JACET in the following link

http://jacet.srbiau.ac.ir

is there any journal related to bioinformatics field , in which i can publish my research paper, total free of cost, no charges at all.

How to publish quickly in Elsevier and springer? theme soil erosion

I do agree with dear Dr. Michael W. Marek comment plus recommend to visit these links:

http://journalfinder.elsevier.com/

https://www.springeropen.com/get-published/find-the-right-journal

www.scimagojr.com

https://doaj.org/

Regards, Emad

I am also looking for free journals for food science and agriculture with fast processing time and small impact factor (0.1 - 0.4) ?

thanks Emad

you can publish your paper free of charge in JACET at the following link: JACET is a scientific research journal that aims to disseminate achievements in original research in the field of Computer Engineering and Technology.http://jacet.srbiau.ac.ir/

Why are the researchers paid high amount of dollar(like 100--3000 or more)to publish their papers in a good impact factor journals?My question is, since most of the researchers are students, from where they will get such amount or fail to manage such fund? My suggestion to the journals authority is that they must not be commercial rather generous.That will help researchers' status and the nation.

We are an Academic Publisher based out of India, and we publish 28 academic Journals in diverse fields - Engineering, Management , Education and Language. We follow double blind review process and we have a highly qualified Editorial team for all the Journals. There is no publishing fee and we have been listed with leading databases such as ERIC, CAS, EBSCO, ProQuest, Indian Citation Index and Google Scholar. Our Journals are recommended by UGC as well. Please visit www.imanagerpublications.com for more details.

i am looking a fast and free sci journal in information and communication

Look for a journal available in JCR list. The journals available inJCR list are trustworthy.

The journal is available in JCR list or not???

Sorry mate, but a journal that publishes in 5-7 days is highly doubted and I encourage you not to promote such journals. A good review process is the aim of any scholar, and such review process takes much longer but yields very constructive feedback and comments.

I am strongly Agree with the response of Mr. Marwan.

Any journal that get your work accepted, revised and published within days weeks or a month, is really questionable. Such journal will never have a high impact as no quality research article will be submitted their. All they need is your money.

@ Chuks Kenneth Odoh, you must realise that the time spend in review is not always a true reflection of quality criticism of the manuscript. Most time, the reviewer may be too busy to work on the manuscript in time. As a matter of personal standard, I do not hold on to a manuscript more than a week if asked to review. And i give my best contribution based on my understanding of the subject matter. To link review time with qualitative criticism is NOT correct. What matter most is the reputation of the journals you are sending your manuscript to. Haven said that... In actual fact, most free and reputable journals take considerable time with review process. This is mainly because of the pressure from many respected scholars for a chance to publish their research findings. However, if time is not a factor, i would recommend you sort journals by their submission fee requirement on the Directorate of Open Access Journal (DOAJ). I used this for years now and it been helpful to identify Journals with no submission or publication fees. I hope this helps.

You may find this resource helpful:

Eaton, S. E. (2018). Avoiding Predatory Journals and Questionable Conferences: A Resource Guide Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1880/106227 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5072/PRISM/20

I found some of the free journals but they have 75% rejection cretaria.

Salute Dear Colleagues,

I have read about your posts regarding junk or fake journals. I am confused of something,

I have a question of World Research Library (WRL). What the exactly is it ? I have seen in web-site where proceedings can be seen to everyone and so full of papers can which were probably presented across the world . Is is assumed as a publisher or something ? What if someone's paper were seen there ? , it means that that paper can not be published in any other journals anymore or not If anyone knows what this library is, then kindly ask for an answer as soon as possible.

Thank you

Sincerely

Thank you for your answer. I appreciate for that.

Would you give me more detailed answers on whether my paper can be forwarded anywhere else or not ?

The "publish or perish" policy is making academicians desperate. One of my senior colleague would say, "Publish actively because you are a scholar, do not publish to target promotion". If you do the latter, you actually would have quality publication cuz your focus is improving yourself. If you target promotion, there is a tendency to go to rest after every promotion only to wake up few months to the next. Hence the bedrock of desperation. More so, such personality tend to stop writing or conduction research as soon as they get to the zenith of their career (e.g. Professor). The choice is yours to make.

Prior to publish a manuscript, it is recommended to identify all valid journals in your field of study. The first way is to refer to JCR journals in your field. Most of them receive no fee, but you should not hurry. Some of them publish review articles.

Dr. Annal Ezhil, I think you already published your review in any free and impacted journal. Regards.

Validation of Journals is a story for another day.

How long a manuscript stays for review depends on a number of things;

1. Availability of qualified persons to review such paper; if the editor is able to find two good scholars to review the manuscript, it is possible to receive the review comments within 4-5 weeks of manuscript submission.

2. If there are no experts available to review the manuscript, it may take much time for the review comments to be returned to the author since the editor will have to wait until suitable candidates are found to review the manuscript.

However, i'll want to correct an impression that the longer a Journal publisher stays with your manuscript, the better the quality of the publisher.

Two experts in field of education, social sciences, arts and humanities can review a 15 pages manuscript within 2 weeks if the individuals truly have the time to review the manuscript. So, scholars should quit the idea that because a Journal holds your manuscript more than 2 months, then the manuscript is undergoing quality review. Although, publishers know their time tables for publishing accepted papers.

But, scholars should know that publishing is a business, whether Elsevier, Sage, Taylor and Francis, etc. They are all business companies making money either legitimately or illegitimately from scholars. So, when you brag about quality of a publisher, also look deep to see see the other side of the coin.

I rest my case!

For those wishing to publish Open Access free of charge in Nigeria and other countries, read this post https://www.zeetarz.com/publish-open-access-completely-free-in-our-journals-zeetarz-publishing-nigeria/ or this https://www.zeetarz.com/why-are-we-not-charging-article-publication-fee-for-open-access-publishing/

most times some of these quality journals deliberately stress people for no reason

Any authentic English literature research journals without publication fee?

Publishing in good peer-reviewed journals would take quite some time depending on the scope of journal and your article's scope.

MDPI journals are pretty good and fast but you need to pay as they are open- access. They will respond in an average time of 20 days.

http://www.mdpi.com/about/journals

Most predatory journals publish fast. In fact, they may publish within two days. But important is to avoid laboring in vain by avoiding them. Why the need to rush?

Very good journals do thorough review. Take time and look out for high impact journals, it pays at the end.

again the most important is to publish in legitimate journals as we have tons of fake publishers. Elseiveris good but you need to check the I. F for each journal and the Q factor as well.

Dear authors we have started new research journal

we publish research papers without any fee

we accept research papers after plagiarism check and peer review

review report will be send to you for further making changes

Do not hesitate we strictly follow the standards

[email protected]

www.ijariet.org

http://www.ijirase.com

This is another life science journal in which you can publish without paying and downloading the articles is free. www.revistabionatura.com

we publish , but ours is a new journal

If interested please forward your paper

If plagiarism check is clear then forward for review

Publishing process may take around 45 days

M Maruti Reddy please tell me , this journal is impact factor r not.

There are lots of journal, which publishes paper within a month, but not have good reputation.

At present, to publish the paper in Sci / Scopus is totally commercial and due to this the economical week researchers are not capable to submit the research papers in such type of journals. 600 to 800 dollars is publication fee and it is not considered by the govt. organizations.