UWM Libraries Research and Course Guides: Physics and Astronomy: Open Access

Support for Open Access at UWM

Open access publishing agreements at UWM
Through these agreements, UWM authors will have their article processing charges paid for by the UWM Libraries.
Scholarly Communication at UWM
Information about publishing models, open access, copyright, author’s rights, licenses, and other related issues

Publishers Guidelines for Open Access

Open Access Journals with High Journal Impact Factors (examples)

To find fully open access journals with high impact factors search Journal Citation Reports: click Categories, select the specific category, and apply a filter for Open Access > Journal Level Filter > DOAJ Gold Open Access.

ACS Central Science
2015-, American Chemical Society, no APC, 2021 JIF 18,728
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
2010-, no APC, JIF (2021) 3.272
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
2005-, no APC, JIF (2021) 2.544
Chemical Science
2011-, moved to open access in 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry, JIF (2021) 9.969
Chemistry Central Journal
2007-, SpringerOpen, JIF (2021) 4.215
IEEE Access
Open access since 2013; IEEE; JIF (2021) 3.476
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
2000-, MDPI, JIF (2021) 6.208
Journal of Cheminformatics
Open access since 2009; BioMed Central, JIF (2021) 8.489
Materials
2008-, MDPI; JIF (2021) 3.748
Molecules
1996-, MDPI; JIF (2021) 4.927
Nano-Micro Letters
2009-; Shanghai Jaio Tong University Press / Springer: JIF (2021) 23.655
National Science Review
Open access since 2020; Chinese Academy of Sciences / Oxford University Press; JIF (2021) 23.178
Nature Communications
2010 -; moved to open access in 2014, APC $5,200, JIF (2021) 17.694
Optics Express
1997-, Optical Society of America, JIF (2021) 3.833
PLoS ONE
2006-, Public Library of Science. JIF (2021) 3.752
RSC Advances
2011-; moved to open access in 2017, JIF (2021) 4,036
Science Advances
Open access since 2015; AAAS, JIF (2021) 14.972
Scientific Reports
Open access since 2011; Nature Publishing Group; JIF (2021) 4.996
Sensors
2001-, MDPI; JIF (2021) 3.847