UWM Libraries Research and Course Guides: Chemistry: Open Access

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