Selection criteria
A journal is listed here only if it meets all of the following:
- It is fully open access — every article is free to read on publication, with no embargo.
- It charges authors no article processing charge.
- It operates a documented peer review process.
- It publishes under an open licence.
- It publicly states its editorial policy and its charges, if any.
Journals that levy other fees — submission, page or colour charges — are listed but flagged, so you can filter them out.
Refresh cadence
Records are refreshed on a schedule. Journals that cease publication, or that begin charging an APC, are removed from the listings while their pages continue to resolve, so existing links do not break.
Indexing coverage
Abstracting and indexing coverage is maintained by our editors and checked against each database's own published journal list where one is available. Coverage changes over time; always confirm on the database's own site before relying on it for an assessment exercise.
The transparency score
Each journal gets a score out of 100 derived from the policy signals it publishes:
- Persistent identifiers (DOIs) assigned to articles
- A documented peer review process
- Plagiarism screening
- Long-term preservation arrangements
- Authors retaining copyright without restriction
- Machine-readable licensing in articles
- Full open access with no embargo
- Published editorial board and aims & scope
- Absence of other charges, and presence of a waiver policy
- Publication volume and typical time to publication
This is a documentation-completeness measure, not an impact metric. A high score means the journal is transparent about how it operates. It does not mean the journal is more influential, more selective, or a better fit for your paper.
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