This blog post aims to provide a list of Q1 open-access journals. In 2022, there are 1204 Q1 open-access journals.
Q1 is occupied by the top 25% of journals in the list. The most prestigious journals within a subject area are those which occupy the first quartile, Q1.
Open access (OA) refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. OA content is open to all, with no access fees.
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 journals list 2023: Scopus Quartile ranking
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Top 50 Q1 Open Access Journals
| S. No. | Journal | CiteScore | SJR | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Living Reviews in Relativity | 67.4 | 11.551 | Springer Nature |
| 2 | Annual Review of Plant Biology | 36.1 | 11.695 | Annual Reviews Inc. |
| 3 | Molecular Cancer | 34.3 | 7.274 | Springer Nature |
| 4 | The Lancet Global Health | 32.1 | 7.97 | Elsevier |
| 5 | Living Reviews in Solar Physics | 30.8 | 6.861 | Springer Nature |
| 6 | The Lancet Public Health | 28.7 | 7.226 | Elsevier |
| 7 | Studies in Mycology | 24.9 | 6.18 | Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute |
| 8 | Light: Science and Applications | 23.8 | 6.104 | Springer Nature |
| 9 | Nucleic Acids Research | 23.5 | 9.008 | Oxford University Press |
| 10 | Physical Review X | 22.1 | 7.94 | American Physical Society |
| 11 | Microbiome | 21.8 | 5.297 | Springer Nature |
| 12 | Journal of Hematology and Oncology | 20.2 | 4.305 | Springer Nature |
| 13 | Nature Communications | 20.0 | 5.559 | Springer Nature |
| 14 | Journal of Extracellular Vesicles | 19.6 | 5.94 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 15 | Advanced Science | 19.2 | 5.388 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 16 | Bone Research | 19.2 | 3.289 | Springer Nature |
| 17 | Molecular Neurodegeneration | 19.1 | 5.565 | Springer Nature |
| 18 | Optica | 18.7 | 5.074 | OSA Publishing |
| 19 | The Lancet Planetary Health | 18.5 | 3.535 | Elsevier |
| 20 | Conservation Letters | 17.7 | 3.153 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 21 | ACS Central Science | 17.6 | 4.893 | American Chemical Society |
| 22 | Journal of Statistical Software | 17.0 | 7.636 | University of California Press |
| 23 | OpenNano | 16.6 | 1.168 | Elsevier |
| 24 | Science advances | 16.6 | 5.928 | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| 25 | Genome Biology | 16.5 | 9.027 | Springer Nature |
| 26 | Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems | 16.1 | 2.831 | Springer Nature |
| 27 | Journal of Carcinogenesis | 15.9 | 2.771 | Wolters Kluwer Health |
| 28 | Nano-Micro Letters | 15.9 | 3.473 | Springer Nature |
| 29 | Molecular Systems Biology | 15.6 | 8.523 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 30 | Environmental Health Perspectives | 15.4 | 2.257 | US Department of Health and Human Services |
| 31 | Annals of Surgery | 15.3 | 4.153 | Wolters Kluwer Health |
| 32 | EMBO Molecular Medicine | 15.3 | 4.923 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 33 | NPG Asia Materials | 15.3 | 3.082 | Springer Nature |
| 34 | Genome Medicine | 15.2 | 5.564 | Springer Nature |
| 35 | Redox Biology | 15.0 | 2.059 | Elsevier |
| 36 | Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle | 14.9 | 2.803 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 37 | npj Flexible Electronics | 14.9 | 3.826 | Springer Nature |
| 38 | Plant Biotechnology Journal | 14.9 | 3.525 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 39 | Chemical Science | 14.5 | 3.687 | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 40 | Biomolecular Detection and Quantification | 14.2 | 2.373 | Elsevier |
| 41 | Protein and Cell | 14.2 | 2.973 | Higher Education Press |
| 42 | National Science Review | 14.1 | 2.433 | Oxford University Press |
| 43 | ACS applied materials & interfaces | 14.0 | 2.535 | American Chemical Society |
| 44 | Advances in Physics: X | 14.0 | 2.541 | Taylor & Francis |
| 45 | Eurosurveillance | 13.9 | 2.766 | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) |
| 46 | npj 2D Materials and Applications | 13.9 | 3.91 | Springer Nature |
| 47 | PLoS Medicine | 13.9 | 4.847 | Public Library of Science |
| 48 | Cell Reports | 13.6 | 6.264 | Elsevier |
| 49 | International journal of oral science | 13.6 | 1.395 | Springer Nature |
| 50 | Materials Research Letters | 13.6 | 2.883 | Taylor & Francis |
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Source & Credit: Scopus
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