Journal database · 302 journals
Sociology SCI Journals: Gold open access
Sociology SCI Journals: Gold open access: 302 journals, each with impact factor, CAS zone, review time, APC, open-access status, annual volume and database indexing, and filterable by all of them.
JATI-Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
IF 88CAS Zone 4 · SociologyGold OA18 articles/yrESCIJournal site: discontinuedEuropean Journal of International Security
IF 79CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopAPC about USD 3,655Gold OA54 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJJournal of Experimental Political Science
IF 63CAS Zone 2 · SociologyAPC about USD 3,550Gold OA33 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJGlobal Constitutionalism
IF 53CAS Zone 3 · SociologyAPC about USD 3,655Gold OA33 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJEuropean Journal of Risk Regulation
IF 28CAS Zone 4 · SociologyAPC about USD 3,550Gold OA109 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJEuropean Countryside
IF 14CAS Zone 4 · SociologyReview: about 39 weeksAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA36 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJJuridical Tribune Review of Comparative and International Law
IF 14Review: about 12 weeksAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA38 articles/yrESCI · ScopusJuridical Tribune-Tribuna Juridica
IF 14CAS Zone 3 · SociologyReview: about 24 weeksAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA35 articles/yrScopusReiDoCrea-Revista Eectronica de Investigacion y Docencia Creativa
IF 12.9CAS Zone 4 · SociologyReview: about 4 weeksNo APCGold OA52 articles/yrESCIQuaestiones Geographicae
IF 12CAS Zone 4 · SociologyReview: about 12 weeksNo APCGold OA51 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJBig Data & Society
IF 7.6CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopReview: about 313 days (submission to acceptance, publisher)APC about USD 2,000Gold OA136 articles/yrSSCI · Scopus · DOAJInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods
IF 7.16CAS Zone 2 · SociologyReview: about 12 weeksAPC about USD 2,650Gold OA392 articles/yrSSCI · Scopus · DOAJMiscellanea Geographica
IF 7CAS Zone 4 · SociologyReview: about 14 weeksNo APCGold OA26 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJSustainable Futures
IF 6.7CAS Zone 3 · SociologyReview: about 209 days (submission to acceptance, publisher)APC about USD 2,390Gold OA1,177 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJJournal of Cybersecurity
IF 6.1CAS Zone 3 · SociologyReview: about 18 weeksAPC about USD 2,094Gold OA43 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJJournal of Urban Management
IF 5.6CAS Zone 2 · SociologyReview: about 206 days (submission to acceptance, publisher)APC about USD 2,500Gold OA122 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJJournal of democracy
IF 5.53CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopGold OA60 articles/yrSSCI · ScopusHeritage Science
IF 5.19CAS Zone 2 · SociologyReview: median 114 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 2,190Gold OASCIE · AHCI · Scopus · DOAJHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
IF 4.85CAS Zone 2 · SociologyReview: median 326 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 1,990Gold OA2,121 articles/yrSSCI · AHCI · Scopus · DOAJEarth System Governance
IF 4.7CAS Zone 1 · Sociology · TopReview: about 220 days (submission to acceptance, publisher)APC about USD 2,800Gold OA73 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJ
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About these figures
- Impact factor is the latest value LetPub lists. CAS zone is the major-category zone of the Chinese Academy of Sciences journal ranking, 2025 upgraded edition by default and switchable to the 2026 Xinrui edition; Top and review-journal flags are kept per edition.
- Review time is first the median from submission to acceptance of the journal's own articles from the last 24 months (Crossref / PubMed dates, at least 10 articles), then the publisher's stated submission-to-acceptance, final-decision or post-review decision time, then the community's average report. A publisher's "time to first decision" includes desk rejections and is used only when nothing else exists. Each source is labelled.
- APC is taken from DOAJ, OpenAlex, the publisher's website and LetPub, in that order; a hybrid journal's APC applies only to articles published open access.
- Articles per year is OpenAlex's count for the last complete year, or LetPub's annual article count when that is missing.