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All listed issues are published with no Article Processing Charges (APCs).
The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) is a blind peer-reviewed open access journal funded by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
Journal Name: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
Scope: The special issue welcomes original research using textual analysis in all fields of economics and finance. Possible areas include but are not limited to, monetary economics, forecasting, climate finance, household finance, political economy, law and economics, the economics of regulation, the economics of innovation, public economics, media economics, health economics, the economics of contracts, and education.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 31-12-2025
Arabian Journal of Mathematics publishes significant research papers across all mainstream branches of pure and applied mathematics. The journal Imposes no submission or publication charges for authors or their institutions.
Journal Name: Arabian Journal of Mathematics
Scope: The collection aims to reflect the vibrant scientific research and progress within the realm of physics and astrophysics in Central Asia.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 30-12-2025
The Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering is inviting research papers for its special issue for free publication. All the publications are open access.
Journal Name: Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Scope: Focus areas include underground space development, energy extraction and storage, and deep mining environments.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 01-06-2026
The Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering does not have any Article Processing Charges (APCs) or publication fees. The Chinese Academy of Sciences covers the open access fees for this journal.
Journal Name: Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Scope: This special issue seeks to showcase pioneering research on subsurface storage technologies, including but not limited to hydrogen storage in porous reservoirs, compressed air energy storage, hydrogen storage, nuclear waste repository design, and integrated renewable energy solutions.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 31-03-2026
Croplands, occupying approximately 13% of Earth’s land surface, are pivotal for global food security and sustaining human populations through providing essential resources for agriculture. Accurate and timely monitoring of cropland use provides critical information for resource management and decision-making at various levels. Recent advances in remote sensing technologies as well as data-model integration and AI technologies enable the mapping and monitoring of cropland use across multiple scales, e.g., global, regional and fields.
Journal Name: Journal of Remote Sensing
Scope: This special issue aims to disseminate state-of-the-art research and applications using remote sensing techniques for monitoring and mapping of croplands use.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 31-12-2025
Energy storage devices, such as lithium-ion batteries, solid-state batteries, sodium-ion batteries, supercapacitors and other emerging systems, have important and wide applications in electronic products, electric vehicles, and grid-scale energy storage, etc. Nanomaterials, nanostructures, and nanotechnology have pushed the rapid development of energy storage devices in the recent decades, which attracts more and more scientific research and financial support.
Journal Name: Energy Material Advances
Scope: This special issue entitled “Nanomaterials for Energy Storage” focuses on the fundamentals and applications of nanomaterials, nanostructures and nanotechnology in the field of energy storage. All types of manuscripts are welcomed, including research articles, reviews, and perspectives.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 31-12-2025
Living Reviews in Solar Physics is a diamond open-access journal that publishes invited reviews of research in all areas of solar and heliospheric physics.
Journal Name: Living Reviews in Solar Physics
Scope: This special issue seeks a collection of articles on the applications of machine learning techniques in solar and heliophysics, such as solar feature detection and solar event classification, solar cycle prediction, and space weather forecasting.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 31-10-2025
The Journal of Remote Sensing, an Open Access journal published in association with AIR-CAS
Journal Name: Journal of Remote Sensing
Scope: This special issue seeks contributions focusing on cutting-edge hyperspectral remote sensing applications from the plot- to the satellite-level. We also seek contributions that utilize intelligent image processing and information extraction techniques to more effectively exploit the vast importation contained in hyperspectral data cubes. These applications are being focused on themes such as urban, ecology, geology, agriculture, resources, and wetland.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 30-11-2025
Energy Material Advances is a fully open-access journal and doesn't charge any publication fee to authors. The journal is supported by the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), which covers the costs of publication.
Journal Name: Energy Material Advances
Scope: The aim of this special issue is to provide an up-to-date and transdisciplinary overview of the advancing field of nanomaterials for radiation detection.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 31-12-2025
Abiotic stresses are major environmental factors that affect plant growth and survival of crop plants, particularly, cotton. Keeping in view the role of abiotic stresses, Journal of Cotton Research is hosting a thematic series on cotton abiotic stress tolerance. The Institute of Cotton Research (ICR, CAAS) covers the publication costs for the Journal of Cotton Research, so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.
Journal Name: Journal of Cotton Research
Scope: The thematic series covers the following topics: Drought or flooding, Saline-alkali or acidity, Extreme temperature (heat and cold), Nutrient, Toxic metals in soil
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 31-12-2025
Cotton is the most important fiber crop for the textile industry and one of the most important oilseed crops in the world.
Journal Name: Journal of Cotton Research
Scope: The objectives of this thematic issue in the Journal of Cotton Research are to seek manuscripts in research and reviews on biotechnology-based cotton breeding.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 31-12-2025
This journal operates as an open access publication, with all publishing costs being subsidized by the IEEE Xplore.
Journal Name: Big Data Mining and Analytics
Scope: (1) Uncertainty Quantification in AI, (2) Risk-Aware Decision-Making, (3) Trustworthy AI in High-Stakes Domains, (4) Hybrid AI Approaches for Decision-Making, (5) Ethical and Policy Considerations
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 01-12-2025
The International Journal of Food Design is Diamond Open Access. The journal does not charge APCs or submission fees.
Journal Name: International Journal of Food Design
Scope: This Special Issue explores the intersection(s) of food and play, inviting explorations that investigate the processes involved in crafting playful food experiences.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 31-10-2025
This special issue invites the submission of papers of all types, namely empirical research articles, critical commentaries, theoretical or conceptual papers, meta-syntheses, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews on the topic of classroom in higher education se
Journal Name: Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies
Scope: This special issue will bring together scholars who study the nexus of classroom (in) justice and various aspects of learning and teaching in higher education.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 30-09-2025
Arabian Journal of Mathematics publishes significant research papers across all mainstream branches of pure and applied mathematics. The Journal imposes no submission or publication charges for authors or their institutions.
Journal Name: Arabian Journal of Mathematics
Scope: 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 a wide range of disciplines.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 30-12-2025
The journal Asian Review of Political Economy publishes theory-driven and policy-oriented research on diverse political economy issues. Authors don't have to pay any publication fees for publication. APC is fully sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a special fund from IIA, CUHK, Shenzhen, ensuring high visibility for your work with open access.
Journal Name: Asian Review of Political Economy
Scope: This special issue welcomes contributions from scholars working in diverse geopolitical settings to examine how the securitization of knowledge manifests in policy, discourse, institutional responses, and the lived experiences of researchers and students.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 31-12-2025
Logistics Research is an academic, double-blind, peer-reviewed journal, publishing research from an interdisciplinary perspective in logistics management and engineering. You can publish an open access article in this diamond partnership journal. Authors in this journal are not required to pay an article processing charge (APC).
Journal Name: Logistics Research
Scope: This special issue aims to explore the evolving role of Central and Eastern Europe in global supply chains by addressing key challenges and opportunities across multiple dimensions, including trade flows, resilience strategies, sustainability, infrastructure, and regulatory frameworks.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 30-09-2025
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education is calling for submissions to our Collection on Harnessing Large Language Models for Teaching and Learning: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions.
Journal Name: International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
Scope: This special issue invites submissions that explore both the potential benefits and the challenges associated with applying large language models in education. The issue welcomes original research, case studies, and theoretical explorations that contribute to the ongoing discussion about how LLM can shape the future of education.
Publication Cost: No Publication Fee (Free Publication)
Submission Deadline: 19-12-2025