www.doaj.org  This website's search features allow you to search for open access journals with no APC. Click on Search [in the orange bar], limit to journals [left hand facets] , expand APC facet, select No [No APC that is] then search by subject.

Great job/initiative Jeysson Sánchez-Suárez!

Can other researchers suggest journals for your list?

Hello Anton Vrdoljak . Of course, that's the idea. Let free to share any suggestion.

www.doaj.org  This website's search features allow you to search for open access journals with no APC. Click on Search [in the orange bar], limit to journals [left hand facets] , expand APC facet, select No [No APC that is] then search by subject.

Subject (Scopus): Applied Mathematics; Computational Theory; General Chemistry; Computer Science Applications

Journal Name: Match

Impact Factor: 2.126

Cite Score: 2.05

Webpage: http://match.pmf.kg.ac.rs/

APC Fee: 0

Thank you for your question. The whole idea of open access journals was developed around the year 2000/2002 on the basis that the authors pay the costs of publishing their work if accepted and after peer-review. However, there are very few exceptions, for example, if you receive an invitation from the editor to submit an article (usually eminent authors receive such invitations particularly if the journal; has an impact factor). In this case, the fees are weaved. Also, some journals are funded by an organisation to pay the article processing fees.

The table has received a small update (see https://cutt.ly/xeYtYkx ).

Dear Jeysson Sánchez-Suárez ,

Today I came across a great journal (I mysteriously enough never heard of):

Chemical Science

https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/about-journals/chemical-science/

Impact factor: 9.346

CiteScore: 15.5

https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700200838

All costs are covered, and it is fully open access.

Best regards.

Dear Rob Keller ,

First of all, thank you for keeping this initiative in mind and for your recommendation. It's a great journal. It's already in the list and below I share the link again:

• https://cutt.ly/xeYtYkx

Thanks so much for sharing!

If I want publish in Hybrid Journal, Have I pay APC or any Fee????

Dear Jorge Soriano Lorenzo . Short answer is no.

Hybrid means that you are dealing with a subscription based journal (most of the time without any costs except perhaps costs for colour figures which you can opt. for).

Hybrid means that the journal offers an open access option (often quite expensive) but you can choose not to. So in that case it is for free.

Best regards.

Dear Jeysson Sánchez-Suárez ,

Thanks to the following question:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/University_Journals_indexed_by_Scopus_and_web_of_science_with_APC_less_than_100

asked by Zaccheus Shehu I have another suggestion for your list:

The journal:

Walailak Journal of Science and Technology

http://wjst.wu.ac.th/index.php/wjst

CiteScore: 0.8

https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100258402

Free of charge.

Best regards.

PS. Did you see the following question:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Free_or_Low_Cost_Science_Citation_Index_Expanded_SCIE_journals_in_the_area_of_Plant_Sciences_and_Food_Science_Technology

I think some interesting suggestions can be found there as well.

Dear Jeysson Sánchez-Suárez ,

Came across two new interesting journals:

“Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering” (https://www.mjcce.org.mk/index.php/MJCCE ):

-Scopus indexed (CiteScore 1.0) https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/12100154834

-SCIE indexed (impact factor 0.829)

And “Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society” (https://www.shd-pub.org.rs/index.php/JSCS ):

-Scopus indexed (CiteScore ) https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21535

-SCIE indexed (impact factor 1.097)

As far I can tell both free of charge.

Best regards.

Dear Rob Keller .

I appreciate your suggestions so much.

Dear Jeysson

PAHO Journal is an APC and Open Access scientific journal in the field of Public health. It publishes in 3 languages, English, Portuguese and Spanish.

IF: 0,7 and CiteScore: 1,8.

Link: https://www.paho.org/journal/en

Thanks a lot, Sandro Rosa . Right now, the list counts 41 scientific journals free of charge for both authors and readers.

This ia an incredible Jon of yours. Thanks. O Will spread this good news in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Apparently doaj.org no longer lets you filter search results by APC! :-(

Dear Jeysson Sánchez-Suárez ,

Thanks to another question, I came across the following suggestion:

Journal of Biomedical Science (https://jbiomedsci.biomedcentral.com/ )

impressive impact factor and without costs that are covered by the sponsor.

Best regards.

PS. I noticed that I suggested this one before, you might have overlooked my earlier suggestions from Springer (in another question you posted), for the sake of completeness I enclosed the file again.

Yes you can still filter Doaj for no charges. There's a link on the landing page underneath the searchbox

would you pls recommend to me the lowest cost ecology journal (SCI) as an open access or other else?

@Ayhan Kocaman in the list shared here (see description above) you can find only open access journals with free charges for authors. The list is organized by journal titles, but in the first column you can see the Scopus category of each journal. There are several journals in biological science that could work for you (e.g., Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences).

You can use http://www.countryofpapers.com/search-journals. As far as I'm concerned, it is the only journal comparator where you can find publication fees, APCs and other researchers' valuations.

Good Luck!!

Dear Jeysson Sánchez-Suárez ,

With thanks to Frank T. Edelmann while answering another question here on RG, I have another suggestion for your list: Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology (http://www.j-act.org/index.html ). It is a Scopus indexed journal: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/16520 and a SCIE indexed journal as well, Impact Factor (2019): 1.103.

Best regards.

Interesting

Dear Jeysson Sánchez-Suárez ,

Thanks to another question here on RG I found the following suggestion made by Inam Ur Rehman : International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI) (https://www.ijimai.org/journal/ )

It is:

-Member of DOAJ

-All papers have a genuine DOI

-Indexed in SCIE (impact factor 2.561)

And according to (https://www.ijimai.org/journal/submission#2 ) indeed free of charge. Not Scopus indexed, but indexed in SCIE is even better.

Best regards.

Honorable Jeysson Sánchez-Suárez and Rob Keller Sir, could you please update the list, please?

Dear Rob Keller .

I can't find the post (https://www.researchgate.net/post/A_New_Scopus_Indexed_Materials_Science_Journal).

I just update the list with your recent suggestion and several of the Springer list you previously shared with me.

Little by little, I will continue with the task of updating.

Best regards.

Dear Jeysson Sánchez-Suárez I see...apparently the question is removed. I removed my reply of Januari 19th. Unfortunately I forgot where it was all about.

Anyway keep up the good work, think it is very helpful for many of us.

Best regards.