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Electrical and Electronic Engineering · 168 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best open-access journals for Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The top 40 of 168 Electrical and Electronic Engineering journals, open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by how central Electrical and Electronic Engineering is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).

Data as of — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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  1. 1
    Nano-Micro Letters
    33.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  2. 2
    Carbon Energy
    17.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  3. 3
    Energy Strategy Reviews
    12.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  4. 4
    Advanced Photonics
    11.0 cites/paper · Q1
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  5. 5
    National Science Review
    10.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    Energy Reports
    9.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  7. 7
    Advanced Science
    9.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  8. 8
    Green Energy & Environment
    8.8 cites/paper · Q1 · KeAi
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  9. 9
    Batteries
    8.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering Electronics and Energy
    7.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  11. 11
    Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy
    7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  12. 12
    Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research
    6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  13. 13
    Materials Advances
    6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    IEEE Access
    6.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
    6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · IEEE Communications Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  16. 16
    Cell Reports Physical Science
    6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    APL Photonics
    6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · AIP Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  18. 18
    Small Science
    5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  19. 19
    ICT Express
    5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  20. 20
    Fundamental Research
    5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  21. 21
    International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
    5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  22. 22
    Sensors
    5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  23. 23
    Advanced Electronic Materials
    5.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  24. 24
    Energies
    5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  25. 25
    Small Structures
    4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  26. 26
    ACS Omega
    4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  27. 27
    High Voltage
    4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Institution of Engineering and Technology
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  28. 28
    Engineering Science and Technology an International Journal
    4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  29. 29
    Journal of Science Advanced Materials and Devices
    4.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  30. 30
    International Journal of Energy Research
    4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  31. 31
    Energy Conversion and Management X
    4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  32. 32
    Next Energy
    3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  33. 33
    CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems
    3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · China Electric Power Research Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  34. 34
    Advanced Materials Interfaces
    3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  35. 35
    Optics Express
    3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Optica Publishing Group
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  36. 36
    Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
    2.1 cites/paper · Q1 · American Physical Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  37. 37
    Engineered Science
    1.8 cites/paper · Q1
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  38. 38
    Light Science & Applications
    17.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  39. 39
    Materials Today Sustainability
    8.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  40. 40
    Communications Materials
    8.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

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Frequently asked

Nano-Micro Letters, Carbon Energy, Energy Strategy Reviews, Advanced Photonics, National Science Review lead this list, drawn from a 17,500-venue index. The top 40 of 168 ranked venues are listed on this page; all 40 are Scimago Q1. By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Electrical and Electronic Engineering come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Electrical and Electronic Engineering — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Electrical and Electronic Engineering — is listed after all the others. Where cites/paper decides, a journal with fewer than 30 papers in OpenAlex over the four most recent publication years is listed after those with more: a two-year average over so few papers can rest on a single article (1 of the 168 journals ranked here is below that floor; it is not among the 40 shown). Only open-access venues are included. Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded. For a match to your specific paper use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

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