Open Access Physics Journals
A list of Open Access Physics journals for you to publish your manuscript in
Physics is study of matter and its motion, along with related concepts such as energy and force
Open Access journals publish research articles that are free to to view and download. The main difference between articles in open access journals and those in closed journals is the business model. Both types of articles have to undergo the same peer review process.
Hopefully this list of Physics Open Access journals will make it easier for you to decide where to publish your Physics manuscript.
Our list includes all the high-impact factor Physics journals as well as new journals. This should give you a better idea on where you should publish. Instead of displaying the most commonly known Physics journals, we have made an exhaustive list of open accesss Physics journals. Use our different columns — number of papers, number of citations, and relevance — to find the best Physics venue for your manuscript.
The DOAJ columns refers to the The Directory of Open Access Journals, a list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access.
There are certain criteria a journal must meet to be indexed by DOAJ, and thus inclusion in the DOAJ index is seen by scholars as a mark of quality.
All the open access Physics journals in this list are indexed in OA.mg.
If you spot any mistakes in this table of Physics OA journals, don’t hesitate to send us an email.
Name | ISSN | DOAJ | Publisher | No. of Papers | Citations | Relevance▼ | Website |
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Living Reviews in Relativity | 1433-8351 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 119 | 37998 | 99.2 | Website |
Optical Materials Express | 2159-3930 | ☑ | The Optical Society | 3901 | 49008 | 99.1 | Website |
Optics Express | 1094-4087 | ☑ | The Optical Society | 54964 | 1369054 | 99.1 | Website |
Progress of theoretical and experimental physics | 2050-3911 | ☑ | Oxford University Press | 474 | 3124 | 98.7 | Website |
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques | 1867-1381 | ☑ | 3925 | 86344 | 98.6 | Website | |
Journal of High Energy Physics | 1029-8479 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 37507 | 1608795 | 98.4 | Website |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 1680-7316 | ☑ | 15691 | 633663 | 98.4 | Website | |
npj quantum materials | 2397-4648 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 514 | 8307 | 98.2 | Website |
High Power Laser Science and Engineering | 2052-3289 | ☑ | Cambridge University Press | 444 | 3990 | 98.2 | Website |
npj Quantum Information | 2056-6387 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 682 | 18105 | 98.1 | Website |
Universe | 2218-1997 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 1781 | 9386 | 98.1 | Website |
European Physical Journal C | 1434-6044 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 19922 | 418419 | 97.7 | Website |
Annales Geophysicae | 0992-7689 | ☑ | 7333 | 126576 | 97.6 | Website | |
Photonic Sensors | 2190-7439 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 533 | 4897 | 97.6 | Website |
Wind energy science | 2366-7443 | ☑ | 427 | 3601 | 97.4 | Website | |
Advances in Condensed Matter Physics | 1687-8108 | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 808 | 4329 | 97.3 | Website |
Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate | 2115-7251 | ☑ | EDP Sciences | 479 | 6789 | 97.3 | Website |
Advances in Astronomy | 1687-7969 | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 367 | 6136 | 97.3 | Website |
AIP Advances | 2158-3226 | ☑ | American Institute of Physics | 12472 | 79931 | 97.3 | Website |
Physics Letters B | 0370-2693 | ☑ | Elsevier | 64598 | 1948141 | 97.2 | Website |
Advances in High Energy Physics | 1687-7357 | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 1482 | 15599 | 97.1 | Website |
Optica | 2334-2536 | ☑ | The Optical Society | 1891 | 68307 | 97.1 | Website |
Kinetic and Related Models | 1937-5077 | American Institute of Mathematical Sciences | 626 | 7258 | 97.1 | ||
Journal of The Optical Society of Korea | 1226-4776 | Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics | 1112 | 6089 | 97 | ||
New Journal of Physics | 1367-2630 | ☑ | IOP Publishing | 12946 | 380061 | 97 | Website |
OSA continuum | 2578-7519 | ☑ | The Optical Society | 1088 | 3346 | 96.9 | Website |
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences | 2296-987X | ☑ | Frontiers Media SA | 799 | 4103 | 96.9 | Website |
Photonics | 2304-6732 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 3141 | 6412 | 96.8 | Website |
APL photonics | 2378-0967 | ☑ | American Institute of Physics | 778 | 9712 | 96.7 | Website |
Physical Review Special Topics-accelerators and Beams | 1098-4402 | ☑ | American Physical Society | 2446 | 39194 | 96.7 | Website |
Journal of Modern Physics | 2153-1196 | Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 2211 | 7003 | 96.6 | ||
Journal of Laser Micro Nanoengineering | 1880-0688 | Japan Laser Processing Society | 827 | 5039 | 96.4 | ||
Physical review accelerators and beams | 2469-9888 | ☑ | American Physical Society | 1558 | 9001 | 96.3 | Website |
Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society | 1225-4614 | The Korean Astronomical Society | 1159 | 5481 | 96.3 | Website | |
Case Studies in Thermal Engineering | 2214-157X | ☑ | Elsevier | 2297 | 18035 | 96.2 | Website |
Propulsion and Power Research | 2212-540X | ☑ | Elsevier | 309 | 3316 | 96.1 | Website |
Batteries | 2313-0105 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 458 | 4367 | 96.1 | Website |
Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics | 1735-3572 | ☑ | Academic World Research | 1678 | 7069 | 96.1 | Website |
Journal of Thermal Science and Technology | 1880-5566 | The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers | 1237 | 3091 | 96 | Website | |
Nanoscale Research Letters | 1556-276X | ☑ | Springer Nature | 6329 | 157877 | 95.8 | Website |
APL Materials | 2166-532X | ☑ | American Institute of Physics | 1892 | 37942 | 95.8 | Website |
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation | 0909-0495 | ☑ | International Union of Crystallography | 4671 | 90624 | 95.7 | Website |
Plasma and Fusion Research | 1880-6821 | Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research | 2159 | 7790 | 95.6 | ||
Nuclear materials and energy | 2352-1791 | ☑ | Elsevier | 1153 | 7023 | 95.6 | Website |
Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications | 1990-2573 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 735 | 6504 | 95.5 | Website |
Active and Passive Electronic Components | 0882-7516 | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 996 | 4730 | 95.5 | Website |
International Journal of Rotating Machinery | 1023-621X | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 905 | 7894 | 95.5 | Website |
Laser and Particle Beams | 0263-0346 | Hindawi Limited | 3106 | 28761 | 95.5 | ||
Journal of Advanced Dielectrics | 2010-1368 | ☑ | World Scientific | 574 | 4578 | 95.3 | Website |
Designed Monomers and Polymers | 1385-772X | ☑ | Taylor & Francis | 1094 | 10873 | 95.3 | Website |
Journal of Advanced Ceramics | 2226-4108 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 621 | 9186 | 95.2 | Website |
The Cryosphere | 1994-0416 | ☑ | 2271 | 65876 | 95.2 | Website | |
Physical Review X | 2160-3308 | ☑ | American Physical Society | 2397 | 118096 | 95.2 | Website |
npj 2D materials and applications | 2397-7132 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 329 | 6088 | 95.1 | Website |
Australian Journal of Physics | 0004-9506 | CSIRO Publishing | 3311 | 37325 | 95.1 | Website | |
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology | 2190-4286 | ☑ | Beilstein-Institut | 2210 | 36267 | 95 | Website |
Galaxies | 2075-4434 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 785 | 4929 | 94.9 | Website |
Laser Chemistry | 0278-6273 | Hindawi Limited | 556 | 4373 | 94.8 | ||
Iet Power Electronics | 1755-4535 | ☑ | Institution of Electrical Engineers | 3543 | 46767 | 94.7 | Website |
Journal of Mechanics | 1727-7191 | ☑ | Oxford University Press | 1440 | 5921 | 94.6 | Website |
Boundary Value Problems | 1687-2762 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 2452 | 14574 | 94.5 | Website |
Journal of information display | 1598-0316 | ☑ | Taylor & Francis | 632 | 3217 | 94.5 | Website |
Fluids | 2311-5521 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 1417 | 4398 | 94.5 | Website |
Light-Science & Applications | 2047-7538 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 1363 | 59382 | 94.4 | Website |
Acta Physica Polonica B | 0587-4254 | Jagiellonian University | 5382 | 19996 | 94.3 | ||
Journal of Fluid Science and Technology | 1880-5558 | ☑ | The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers | 719 | 3430 | 94.2 | Website |
Journal of geomagnetism and geoelectricity | 0022-1392 | Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences | 2790 | 34100 | 94.1 | ||
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics | 1023-5809 | ☑ | 1506 | 31127 | 94.1 | Website | |
Epj Web of Conferences | 2100-014X | ☑ | EDP Sciences | 19905 | 32880 | 94 | Website |
Results in physics | 2211-3797 | ☑ | Elsevier | 5352 | 51503 | 93.9 | Website |
Advances in Difference Equations | 1687-1839 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 4900 | 39119 | 93.9 | Website |
Nanophotonics | 2192-8614 | ☑ | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1836 | 28222 | 93.8 | Website |
Mechanics & Industry | 2257-7750 | ☑ | EDP Sciences | 777 | 3212 | 93.8 | Website |
Living Reviews in Solar Physics | 1614-4961 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 92 | 14181 | 93.5 | Website |
Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems | 2367-0983 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 229 | 2914 | 93.4 | Website |
Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics | 1994-2060 | ☑ | Taylor & Francis | 914 | 8873 | 93.4 | Website |
Crystals | 2073-4352 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 5700 | 26044 | 93.2 | Website |
Structural Dynamics | 2329-7778 | ☑ | American Institute of Physics | 395 | 4943 | 93.2 | Website |
Oriental journal of chemistry | 0970-020X | Oriental Scientific Publishing Company | 5263 | 8640 | 93 | ||
Energy and Power Engineering | 1947-3818 | Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1042 | 3909 | 92.9 | ||
Physical review research | 2643-1564 | ☑ | American Physical Society | 4808 | 35209 | 92.9 | Website |
IEEE Photonics Journal | 1943-0647 | ☑ | 5451 | 52182 | 92.7 | ||
PRX quantum | 2691-3399 | ☑ | American Physical Society | 464 | 3733 | 92.7 | Website |
Iet Electric Power Applications | 1751-8660 | ☑ | Institution of Electrical Engineers | 1922 | 23413 | 92.7 | Website |
Communications physics | 2399-3650 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 600 | 2946 | 92.5 | Website |
npj climate and atmospheric science | 2397-3722 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 277 | 3451 | 92.4 | Website |
Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations | 1687-6075 | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 853 | 4538 | 92.4 | Website |
Shock and Vibration | 1070-9622 | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 5859 | 25563 | 92.4 | Website |
Biomedical Optics Express | 2156-7085 | ☑ | The Optical Society | 5268 | 89988 | 92.4 | Website |
SciPost physics | 2542-4653 | ☑ | Stichting SciPost | 1035 | 15026 | 92.2 | Website |
Journal of Computational Acoustics | 0218-396X | World Scientific | 935 | 9177 | 92.2 | Website | |
Journal of Vibroengineering | 1392-8716 | ☑ | JVE International Ltd. | 2859 | 6935 | 92.1 | Website |
World Journal of Nano Science and Engineering | 2161-4954 | Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 139 | 2953 | 92.1 | ||
Revista Mexicana De Fisica | 0035-001X | Sociedad Mexicana de Fisica A C | 4457 | 8611 | 92.1 | ||
Journal of physics communications | 2399-6528 | ☑ | IOP Publishing | 1171 | 3957 | 92 | Website |
Nukleonika | 0029-5922 | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 1910 | 5136 | 91.9 | Website | |
IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society | 2168-6734 | ☑ | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1342 | 7482 | 91.8 | Website |
Journal of Experimental Nanoscience | 1745-8080 | ☑ | Taylor & Francis | 908 | 11540 | 91.7 | Website |
International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials | 1976-0485 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 727 | 7985 | 91.7 | Website |
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters | 1674-2834 | ☑ | Elsevier | 1189 | 5026 | 91.6 | Website |