Q1 open access journals: Download list XLS

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.

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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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