Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Subfield ranking · 2005
Polymers and Plastics journal rankings 2005
53 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Polymers and Plastics has 53 ranked journals in 2005. The median journal has an OJR of 0.54, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2004; Q1 starts at OJR 0.81. The top three are Macromolecules, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, and Polymer.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. 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 2002–2004, the window the 2005 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)
53 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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005. | Compare |
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1MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.30Q1 | 3.83 0.42 up from 2004 | 4,155 | 5% | $4,500 | ||
2Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.98Q1 | 2.94 0.11 up from 2004 | 647 | 8% | $4,550 | ||
3PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 2.89 0.56 up from 2004 | 2,995 | 6% | $3,980 | ||
4Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 1.44Q1 | 1.44 0.12 up from 2004 | 628 | 9% | $4,270 | ||
5Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.38Q1 | 1.83 0.18 up from 2004 | 1,045 | 14% | $3,200 | ||
6Macromolecular Materials and EngineeringOAWiley · Germany | 1.36Q1 | 1.58 0.31 up from 2004 | 360 | 15% | $3,150 | ||
7European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 1.82 0.43 up from 2004 | 1,020 | 5% | $4,330 | ||
8Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 1.33 0.09 up from 2004 | 437 | 7% | $3,370 | ||
9Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.12Q1 | 1.87 0.14 up from 2004 | 907 | 5% | $4,190 | ||
10Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 1.12Q1 | 0.92 0.19 up from 2004 | 247 | 10% | $4,480 | ||
11Progress in Organic CoatingsElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.06Q1 | 1.39 0.24 up from 2004 | 415 | 2% | $4,350 | ||
12Reactive and Functional PolymersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.06Q1 | 1.64 0.04 down from 2004 | 316 | 5% | $3,920 | ||
13Polymer InternationalWiley · United States | 1.00Q1 | 1.27 0.14 up from 2004 | 885 | 4% | $3,890 | ||
14Journal of Applied Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.81Q1 | 1.18 0.28 up from 2004 | 5,002 | 5% | $4,140 | ||
15Rubber Chemistry and TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.79Q2 | 0.75 0.08 up from 2004 | 206 | 0% | — | ||
16Journal of Coatings TechnologySpringer Nature · United States | 0.75Q2 | 0.61 0.21 down from 2004 | 85 | — | — | ||
17Journal of Thermoplastic Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.74Q2 | 0.53 0.07 down from 2004 | 104 | 15% | $4,400 | ||
18Plastics Rubber and Composites Macromolecular EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.73Q2 | 0.50no change | 195 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
19Polymer JournalSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.73Q2 | 1.18 0.15 up from 2004 | 422 | 2% | $4,390 | ||
20Advances in Polymer TechnologyOAWiley · United States | 0.72Q2 | 0.68 0.09 down from 2004 | 103 | 9% | $2,160 | ||
21Polymers for Advanced TechnologiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 0.95 0.09 down from 2004 | 403 | 5% | $4,800 | ||
22Journal of Macromolecular Science Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.66Q2 | 0.78 0.18 down from 2004 | 254 | 2% | — | ||
23Cellular PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.61Q2 | 0.89 0.26 down from 2004 | 52 | 6% | $4,150 | ||
24International Polymer ProcessingDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.61Q2 | 0.61 0.09 down from 2004 | 166 | 4% | $2,712 | ||
25Journal of Polymer ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 0.55Q2 | 0.88 0.35 up from 2004 | 102 | 1% | $3,890 | ||
26Designed Monomers & PolymersOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.55Q2 | 0.88 0.12 up from 2004 | 122 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
27High Performance PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.54Q2 | 0.71 0.31 up from 2004 | 119 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
28Textile Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 0.60 0.04 down from 2004 | 525 | 2% | $4,150 | ||
29Journal of Cellular PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.51Q3 | 0.54 0.02 up from 2004 | 105 | 11% | $4,400 | ||
30Polymer BulletinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.51Q3 | 0.75 0.17 up from 2004 | 447 | 4% | $3,790 | ||
31Journal of Macromolecular Science Part ATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.48Q3 | 0.76 0.03 up from 2004 | 326 | 6% | — | ||
32Polymers and Polymer CompositesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 0.57 0.03 up from 2004 | 186 | 0% | $2,000 | ||
33Journal of Elastomers & PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.51 0.20 up from 2004 | 74 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
34Journal of Vinyl and Additive TechnologyWiley · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.36 0.15 down from 2004 | 92 | 6% | $3,800 | ||
35Macromolecular ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.43Q3 | 0.78 0.18 down from 2004 | 234 | 0% | $3,390 | ||
36Journal of Industrial TextilesOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.40Q3 | 0.44 0.17 up from 2004 | 60 | 5% | — | ||
37Polymer-Plastics Technology and EngineeringMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.45 0.04 up from 2004 | 238 | 1% | — | ||
38Journal of Polymer EngineeringDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.38Q3 | 0.30 0.09 down from 2004 | 89 | 7% | $2,712 | ||
39Fibers and PolymersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.37Q3 | 0.51 0.04 down from 2004 | 117 | 0% | $2,490 | ||
40Autex Research JournalOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.34Q3 | 0.39 0.28 up from 2004 | 89 | 83% | $1,695 | ||
41International Journal of Polymer Analysis and CharacterizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.32Q4 | 0.43 0.21 down from 2004 | 66 | 13% | — | ||
42International Journal of Clothing Science and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.29Q4 | 0.29 0.09 up from 2004 | 112 | 9% | — | ||
43Progress in Rubber Plastics and Recycling TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.28Q4 | 0.26 0.04 up from 2004 | 55 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
44PolimeryOAIndustrial Chemistry Research Institute · Poland | 0.19Q4 | 0.22 0.03 down from 2004 | 365 | 100% | — | ||
45PolímerosOAAssociação Brasileira de Polímeros · Brazil | 0.19Q4 | 0.17 0.03 up from 2004 | 177 | 100% | $152 | ||
46KOBUNSHI RONBUNSHUOASociety of Polymer Science · Japan | 0.14Q4 | 0.21 0.07 up from 2004 | 311 | 100% | — | ||
47e-PolymersOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.14Q4 | 0.19no change | 205 | 63% | $1,808 | ||
48Fibres and Textiles in Eastern EuropeOAIndex Copernicus International S.A. · Poland | 0.12Q4 | 0.28 0.24 up from 2004 | 130 | 0% | — | ||
49Journal of the Textile InstituteTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.09Q4 | 0.03no change | 115 | 7% | — | ||
50International Nonwovens JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.05Q4 | 0.13 0.02 up from 2004 | 146 | 57% | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Polymers and Plastics highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry175
- Polymers and Plastics53
- Biomaterials18
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials9
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films6
- Ceramics and Composites4
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
10 additional Polymers and Plastics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 53
- Window papers (baseline)
- 30,159 +20.3% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 0.544 +5.1% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.