Free-to-publish journals: Medicine

1,070 Medicine journals with no fee to publish with at least 10 papers in 2025, split by subfield so each page stays readable. No fee means the journal, DOAJ or OpenAlex states the fee as zero. A journal that has not published a fee is not listed here, and neither is a subscription journal that charges only for open access.

As of 2 October 2026. From OpenAlex, Crossref and DOAJ. ORBIT Tier is our own ranking within a field, not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.

• Surgery (186 journals)
• Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (108 journals)
• Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (95 journals)
• Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (78 journals)
• Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (74 journals)
• Epidemiology (70 journals)
• Infectious Diseases (48 journals)
• Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (40 journals)
• Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (34 journals)
• Neurology (27 journals)
• Oncology (27 journals)
• Ophthalmology (25 journals)
• Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (25 journals)
• Complementary and alternative medicine (22 journals)
• Hematology (21 journals)
• Emergency Medicine (20 journals)
• Other subfields (170 journals)

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