Open Access Journals List 2026

Are you looking for a list of free open access publishing? Then you are in the right place.

Here, we provide an updated list of scholarly, peer-reviewed Gold, Green, and Hybrid Open Access Journals.

Before driving to list let's talk about what are the academic open access journals.

What is open access?

Open access means that research articles are freely available online to anyone, without any paywalls or restrictions.

This means that anyone can read, download, copy, distribute, print, and adapt the article for any non-commercial purpose under creative commons license.

It aims to make research more accessible to everyone (Free-to-read journals), including researchers, students, and the general public, promoting wider dissemination of knowledge and supporting scientific progress.

Open Access Journals List 2026	ISSN
Applied Computer Science	18953735
Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing	16879724
Applied Clay Science	01691317
Applied Biological Chemistry	24680834
Applied Artificial Intelligence	08839514
Applied Animal Behaviour Science	01681591
Applied and Environmental Soil Science	16877667
Applied and Environmental Microbiology	00992240
Applied and Computational Mechanics	1802680X
Applied and Computational Mathematics	16833511
Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics	14528630
Aperture	00036420
AORTA	23254637
Anuario Musical	02113538
Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional	18704654
Anuario Espanol de Derecho Internacional Privado	15783138
Anuario do Instituto de Geociencias	01019759
Anuario de Psicologia Juridica	11330740
Anuario de Psicologia	00665126
Anuario de Estudios Medievales	00665061
Anuario de Estudios Filologicos	02108178
Anuario de Estudios Americanos	02105810
Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura	01202456
Anuario Calderoniano	18888046
Antropologia Portuguesa	08700990
Antiviral Therapy	13596535
Antiquite Tardive	12507334
Antipoda	19005407
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	00664804
Antike Kunst	00035688
Antiguo Oriente	16679202
Antiguedad y Cristianismo	02147165
Antichnaya Drevnost i Srednie Veka	03204472
Antibodies	20734468
Antibiotiki i Khimioterapiya	02352990
Anthropos	02579774
Anthropology of the Middle East	17460719
Anthropology in Action	0967201X
Anthropologie France	00035521
Anthropologie Czech Republic	03231119
Anthropological Review	18986773
Anthropological Notebooks	1408032X
Anthropological Journal of European Cultures	17552923
Anthropologica	00035459
Anthropocene	22133054
Antarctic Science	09541020
Antarctic Record	00857289
Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine	15548716
Annuaire Roumain dAnthropologie	05702259
Annee Balzacienne	00846473
Annals of Tropical Research	01160710
Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery	13411098
Annals of the University of Craiova, Physics	12236039
Annals of the University Dunarea de Jos of Galati, Fascicle VI Food Technology	18435157
Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists	2657781X
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden	00266493
Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi	25324969
Annals of the Entomological Society of America	00138746
Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore	03044602
Annals of Saudi Medicine	02564947
Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine	22340645
Annals of Pure and Applied Logic	01680072
Annals of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism	22871012
Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology	1082720X
Annals of Movement Disorders	25903446
Annals of Microbiology	15904261
Annals of Medicine	07853890
Annals of Human Biology	03014460
Annals of Hepatology	16652681
Annals of Hematology	09395555
Annals of Health Research	24768642
Annals of Glaciology	02603055
Annals of GIS	19475683
Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research	25084798
Annals of Geophysics	15935213
Annals of Forest Science	12864560
Annals of Forest Research	18448135
Annals of Economics and Finance	15297373
Annals of Critical Care	17269806
Annals of Coloproctology	22879714
Annals of Clinical and Experimental Neurology	20755473
Annals of Child Neurology	2635909X
Annals of Carnegie Museum	00974463
Annals of Cancer Research and Therapy	13446835
Annals of Biology	09700153
Annals of Arid Zone	05701791
Annals of Applied Probability	10505164
Annals of Agricultural Sciences	05701783
Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine	12321966
Annals of Agri Bio Research	09719660
Annals of African Surgery	19999674
Annals of Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Fascicle XII, Welding Equipment and Technology	12214639
Annali di Storia dellEsegesi	11204001
Annali di Storia delle Universita Italiane	11278250
Annali di Stomatologia	18240852
Annali di Igiene Medicina Preventiva e di Comunita	11209135
Annali dellIstituto Superiore di Sanita	00212571
Annales Anali za Istrske in Mediteranske Studije Series Historia et Sociologia	14085348
Annales, Series Historia Naturalis	1408533X
Annales Zoologici Fennici	0003455X
Annales Zoologici	00034541
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie Sklodowska Sectio B	01371983
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie Sklodowska, sectio A Mathematica	03651029
Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Historica	14539306
Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae	02089068
Annales Pharmaceutiques Francaises	00034509
Annales Mathematiques Blaise Pascal	12591734
Annales Mathematicae Silesianae	08602107
Annales Geophysicae	09927689
Annales de Pathologie	02426498
Annales de Paleontologie	07533969
Annales de lInstitut Henri Poincare D Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions	23085827
Annales de lInstitut Henri Poincare C Analyse Non Lineaire	02941449
Annales de linstitut Henri Poincare B Probability and Statistics	02460203
Annales de lInstitut Fourier	03730956
Annales de la Faculte de Droit dIstanbul	05789745
Annales de Dermatologie et de Venereologie	01519638
Annales de Demographie Historique	00662062
Annales de Bourgogne	00033901
Annales Botanici Fennici	00033847
Annales	03952649
An Najah University Journal for Research A Natural Sciences	17272114
Ankara Universitesi Ilahiyat Fakultesi Dergisi	13010522
Ankara Medical Journal	13032283
Animal Welfare	09627286
Animal Technology and Welfare	17420385
Animal Reproduction	18069614
Animal Production Research	22520872
Animal Models and Experimental Medicine	20965451
Animal Feed Science and Technology	03778401
Animal Diseases	27310442
Animal Cognition	14359448
Animal Cells and Systems	19768354
Animal Biotechnology	10495398
Animal Bioscience	27650189
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation	1578665X
Animal	17517311
Anglica	08605734
Angle Orthodontist	00033219
Angiologiya i Sosudistaya Khirurgiya	10276661
Anesthesiology Research and Practice	16876962
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine	19755171
Anestezi Dergisi	13000578
Anemia	20901267
Andes Pediatrica	24526045
Andean Geology	07187092
Anclajes	03293807
Ancient History Bulletin	08353638
Anbar Journal of Agricultural Sciences	19927479
Anatolian Journal of Family Medicine	26305593