Open Access Options for Migration Studies

Today we’ve discussed open access options for migration studies. Here’s an attempt to provide an overview. In this list, a journal is “compliant” if it allows publishing a post-print within 6 months of publication on a non-profit or insitutional repository (green road). This includes fully open access journals. Payments in hybrid journals are not considered compliant. Information on compliance as of 31 October 2019, taken from http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php; impact factors as listed on the journal websites, SJR from Scimago. All information is provided without warranty.

• Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), IF=2.297, SJR=1.78, not OA compliant (18m)
• Ethnic and Racial Studies (ERS), IF=1.268, SJR=1, not OA compliant (18m)
• International Migration Review (IMR), IF=1.738, SJR=1.52, OA compliant
• Population, Space and Place (PSP), IF=2.279, SJR=1.78, not OA compliant (24m)
• International Migration (IM), IF=0.881, SJR=0.61, not OA compliant (12m)
• Citizenship Studies, IF=1.378, SJR=1.07, not OA compliant (18m)
• Ethnicities, IF=1.066, SJR=0.55, OA compliant
• Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI), no IF, SJR=0.61, not OA compliant (12m)
• Migration Studies, IF=1.756, SJR=0.35, not OA compliant (24m)
• Comparative Migration Studies (CMS), no IF, no SJR, OA compliant
• Migration Letters, no IF,  SJR=0.45, OA compliant
• Demographic Research, IF=1.320, SJR=1.27, OA compliant
• Demography, IF=2.489, SJR=2.79, not OA compliant (12m)
• DuBois Review, IF=1.383, no SJR, OA compliant
• Ethnicity & Health, IF=2.671, SJR=0.74, OA compliant
• Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, IF=1.037, SJR=0.84, not OA compliant (18m)
• International Journal of Intercultural Relations, IF=1.713, SJR=0.7, not OA compliant (24m)
• IZA Journal of Development and Migration, no IF, no SJR, OA compliant
• Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, IF=0.891, SJR=0.65, not OA compliant (18m)
• Journal of Population Economics (JPE), IF=1.259, SJR=1.58, not OA compliant (12m)
• Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (JREP), no IF, no SJR, unknown OA compliance (not in RoMEO)
• Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, no IF, SJR=0.59, not OA compliant (12m)
• Journal of Refugee Studies, IF=1.737, SJR=0.88, not OA compliant (24m)
• Migration and Society, no IF, no SJR, unknown OA compliance
• Nordic Journal of Migration Research, no IF, no SJR, OA compliant
• Patterns of Prejudice, IF=0.667, SJR=0.54, not OA compliant (18m)
• Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, no IF, not SJR, unknown OA compliance (not in RoMEO)
• Third World Quarterly, IF=2.156, SJR=1.32, not OA compliant (18m)
• Global Networks, IF=3.018, SJR=1.51, not OA compliant (24m)

You may also consider peer-review experiences on https://scirev.org/

I am not covering disciplinary journals here (e.g. Social Inclusion, Sociological Science, Politics and Governance, Research & Politics, or the innovative OLH). Don’t hesitate to mention ommissions and errors in the comments.