SCI and Scopus Indexed Journals Offering APC Waivers (2026)

journals with APC waiver

An APC Waiver allows an author to publish in an open-access journal without paying the standard publication fee. This blog post aims to list quality research journals that offers full APC waivers. Authors don’t have to pay any fee for open access publication. We always recommend our readers to publish in peer-reviewed journals indexed in … Read more

List of Elsevier Journals with Low Impact Factor (Below 3)

Elsevier low impact factor journals

In this blog post, we list Elsevier journals with low Impact Factors. Clarivate recently announced the Impact Factors through the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). More than 20,000 journals received Impact Factors. Elsevier publishes over 2900 research journals across all areas of science. Impact Factor is a measure of the number of times an average paper … Read more

Web of Science journals: SCIE, SSCI, ESCI, AHCI

Web of Science journals

Web of Science is a multidisciplinary research database managed by Clarivate. It is widely used by researchers, and institutions to assess the quality of journals and research papers. Currently, 22,670 journals are indexed in the Web of Science. Research Papers published in these journals undergo rigorous review and are of high quality. Lists for each … Read more

SCI & Scopus Journals Inviting Papers for Special Issues (No APC)

Call for Papers

We always recommend our readers to publish in Scopus or Web of Science indexed journals that don’t charge publication fees. There are various research journals that publish without any Article Processing Charges (APC). In this blog post, we list Calls for Papers from journals that are currently inviting research papers for their special issues. All … Read more

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Scopus CiteScore in 2025: Overview, Journal Ranking

Scopus CiteScore

The Scopus CiteScore (2025), covering the period 2021–2024, has been released. Many researchers focus on whether a journal is indexed in Scopus, but it is equally important to consider the journal’s CiteScore and quartile ranking. Journal metrics such as the CiteScore, SNIP and SJR help you evaluate journals. The CiteScore Metric is used by Scopus to calculate … Read more

Call for Papers: Big Data Mining and Analytics (Scopus & SCIE Indexed)

Call for Papers Data Mining

The Journal “Big Data Mining and Analytics” is inviting research papers for its Special Issue titled “Special Issue on Blockchain-Enabled Big Data Analytics: Innovations, Applications, and Challenges“. All the accepted papes will be published free of cost (No publication fee). Journal Details Journal Name: Big Data Mining and Analytics Publisher: TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS Journal Indexing: … Read more

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Statistical and Machine Learning Applications

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Statistical and Machine Learning Applications

The journal Arabian Journal of Mathematics invites research papers for a special issue titled “Statistical and Machine Learning with Applications“. Publication Scope This special issue will publish research papers demonstrating Technological advances, significant algorithmic developments, and novel methods for fundamentals of mathematical representation, artificial intelligence modeling, statistical learning, deep neural networks, and direct applications in … Read more

Call for Papers – Special Issue: Randomized Impact Evaluation of Social Inclusion Policies in Spain

Call for Papers Social Sciences

The journal “SERIEs – Journal of the Spanish Economic Association” is accepting research papers for its special issue “Randomized Impact Evaluation of Social Inclusion Policies in Spain”. Researcher Papers can be published free of charge. The Asociación Española de Economía sponsors the article processing charge (APC) of some articles to be published in Open Access.  … Read more

Top Public Universities in Germany for PhD

Top universities in germany for PhD

In a previous post, we listed Countries with excellent research institutions. This blog post lists Germany’s top public universities for pursuing PhD in various subjects. PhD remains free of cost in Germany’s public universities. Germany is well known for research. 1) Technical University of Munich  Location: Munich, Germany QS World Ranking: 28 The Technical University … Read more