Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Subfield ranking · 2001
Polymers and Plastics journal rankings 2001
50 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Polymers and Plastics has 50 ranked journals in 2001. The median journal has an OJR of 0.58, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2000; Q1 starts at OJR 0.77. The top three are Macromolecules, Polymer, and Polymer Composites.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2001. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Materials Science (8)
50 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2000. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1998–2000 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2001. | Compare |
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1MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.29Q1 | 2.87 0.18 up from 2000 | 4,120 | 5% | $4,500 | ||
2PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 1.57 0.17 up from 2000 | 2,771 | 4% | $3,980 | ||
3Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 1.26Q1 | 0.68 0.11 down from 2000 | 268 | 11% | $4,480 | ||
4Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 1.17Q1 | 0.92 0.06 up from 2000 | 718 | 9% | $4,270 | ||
5Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.10Q1 | 1.25 0.47 up from 2000 | 831 | 5% | $4,550 | ||
6Journal of Thermoplastic Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.03Q1 | 0.57 0.07 up from 2000 | 125 | 13% | $4,400 | ||
7Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer PhysicsWiley · United States | 0.93Q1 | 0.89 0.05 up from 2000 | 1,460 | 7% | $3,200 | ||
8Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.91Q1 | 0.96 0.04 up from 2000 | 761 | 1% | $4,190 | ||
9Computational and Theoretical Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.90Q1 | 0.87 0.04 down from 2000 | 128 | 10% | — | ||
10Reactive and Functional PolymersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.85Q1 | 0.84 0.12 down from 2000 | 319 | 0% | $3,920 | ||
11Rubber Chemistry and TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.83Q1 | 0.66 0.17 up from 2000 | 185 | 2% | — | ||
12Journal of Macromolecular Science Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.79Q1 | 0.75 0.07 up from 2000 | 202 | 8% | — | ||
13International Nonwovens JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.77Q1 | 0.36 0.15 down from 2000 | 89 | 81% | — | ||
14Progress in Organic CoatingsElsevier BV · Switzerland | 0.76Q2 | 0.70 0.27 down from 2000 | 216 | 2% | $4,350 | ||
15International Polymer ProcessingDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.72Q2 | 0.50 0.05 down from 2000 | 180 | 3% | $2,712 | ||
16Polymer JournalSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.72Q2 | 0.82 0.04 down from 2000 | 615 | 5% | $4,390 | ||
17High Performance PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 0.73 0.08 up from 2000 | 136 | 4% | $4,150 | ||
18Journal of Coatings TechnologySpringer Nature · United States | 0.68Q2 | 0.51 0.47 down from 2000 | 138 | 5% | — | ||
19Polymer BulletinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.68Q2 | 0.56 0.03 up from 2000 | 557 | 2% | $3,790 | ||
20Advances in Polymer TechnologyOAWiley · United States | 0.67Q2 | 0.43 0.02 up from 2000 | 142 | 13% | $2,160 | ||
21Polymer InternationalWiley · United States | 0.66Q2 | 0.55 0.04 down from 2000 | 849 | 3% | $3,890 | ||
22Macromolecular Materials and EngineeringOAWiley · Germany | 0.64Q2 | 0.38no 2000 value | 137 | 5% | $3,150 | — | |
23Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.64Q2 | 0.63 0.11 up from 2000 | 208 | 4% | $3,370 | ||
24European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.64Q2 | 0.66 0.06 up from 2000 | 867 | 2% | $4,330 | ||
25Journal of Applied Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.61Q2 | 0.63 0.05 up from 2000 | 5,050 | 5% | $4,140 | ||
26Polymer-Plastics Technology and EngineeringMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.56Q3 | 0.54 0.18 up from 2000 | 172 | 0% | — | ||
27Polymers for Advanced TechnologiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 0.40 0.17 down from 2000 | 477 | 4% | $4,800 | ||
28Plastics Rubber and Composites Macromolecular EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 0.35 0.12 up from 2000 | 142 | 2% | $4,150 | ||
29Journal of Elastomers & PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 0.26 0.01 up from 2000 | 84 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
30Journal of Macromolecular Science Part ATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.49Q3 | 0.53no change | 399 | 3% | — | ||
31Textile Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 0.50 0.15 down from 2000 | 437 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
32International Journal of Polymer Analysis and CharacterizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.44Q3 | 0.50 0.13 up from 2000 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
33Journal of Polymer ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 0.43Q3 | 0.37 0.20 up from 2000 | 95 | 0% | $3,890 | ||
34Journal of the Textile InstituteTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.35Q3 | 0.22 0.01 up from 2000 | 239 | 2% | — | ||
35Journal of Polymer EngineeringDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.33Q3 | 0.30 0.11 down from 2000 | 80 | 2% | $2,712 | ||
36Journal of Plastic Film & SheetingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.29Q3 | 0.16 0.11 up from 2000 | 108 | 5% | $4,400 | ||
37Designed Monomers & PolymersOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.29Q3 | 0.36 0.08 up from 2000 | 106 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
38Cellular PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.29Q3 | 0.17 0.05 up from 2000 | 102 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
39Journal of Cellular PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.24Q4 | 0.23 0.23 down from 2000 | 118 | 3% | $4,400 | ||
40KOBUNSHI RONBUNSHUOASociety of Polymer Science · Japan | 0.22Q4 | 0.25 0.05 up from 2000 | 333 | 100% | — | ||
41Chinese Journal of Polymer ScienceSpringer Nature · United States | 0.21Q4 | 0.00 0.34 down from 2000 | 33 | 0% | $3,990 | ||
42Polymers and Polymer CompositesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.18Q4 | 0.09 0.08 down from 2000 | 260 | 4% | $2,000 | ||
43Journal of Vinyl and Additive TechnologyWiley · United States | 0.17Q4 | 0.24 0.16 up from 2000 | 130 | 0% | $3,800 | ||
44International Journal of Clothing Science and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.16Q4 | 0.22 0.07 up from 2000 | 101 | 3% | — | ||
45PolimeryOAIndustrial Chemistry Research Institute · Poland | 0.15Q4 | 0.11 0.02 up from 2000 | 400 | 100% | — | ||
46PolímerosOAAssociação Brasileira de Polímeros · Brazil | 0.15Q4 | 0.09 0.02 up from 2000 | 155 | 100% | $152 | ||
47Macromolecular ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.05Q4 | 0.05 0.04 up from 2000 | 118 | 0% | $3,390 | ||
48Progress in Rubber and Plastics TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.04Q4 | 0.00 0.04 down from 2000 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
49Research Journal of Textile and ApparelEmerald Publishing Limited | 0.04Q4 | 0.03 0.07 down from 2000 | 47 | 6% | — | ||
50Acta Polymerica SinicaOAScience Press · China | 0.01Q4 | 0.01 0.01 up from 2000 | 326 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Polymers and Plastics highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry150
- Polymers and Plastics50
- Biomaterials17
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials6
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films5
- Ceramics and Composites3
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2001. Corpus-wide, 67.0% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
12 additional Polymers and Plastics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1998–2000, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2001. Publication window: 1998–2000. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 50
- Window papers (baseline)
- 23,128 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.5844 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1998–2000 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 50 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 55 | 53 | 53 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 56 | 59 | 59 | 62 | 67 | 74 | 77 | 76 | 77 | 82 | 87 | 83 | 86 | 84 | 82 | 80 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 21,710 | 23,128 | 25,063 | 26,684 | 28,497 | 30,159 | 32,318 | 34,762 | 37,357 | 39,274 | 41,007 | 42,360 | 44,839 | 46,841 | 48,915 | 49,356 | 48,928 | 46,837 | 45,002 | 44,515 | 46,282 | 48,422 | 49,976 | 50,050 | 50,400 | 53,160 | |
| Median OJR | 0.61 | 0.5844 | 0.518 | 0.539 | 0.56 | 0.544 | 0.523 | 0.5492 | 0.514 | 0.631 | 0.54868 | 0.577 | 0.627 | 0.6190 | 0.6187 | 0.57 | 0.508 | 0.54870 | 0.511 | 0.513 | 0.53 | 0.600 | 0.597 | 0.589 | 0.5839 | 0.590 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.