Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Subfield ranking · 2006
Polymers and Plastics journal rankings 2006
53 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Polymers and Plastics has 53 ranked journals in 2006. The median journal has an OJR of 0.52, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2005; Q1 starts at OJR 0.84. The top three are Macromolecules, Polymer, and Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. 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 2003–2005, the window the 2006 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 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 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 2006. | Compare |
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1MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.30Q1 | 3.90 0.07 up from 2005 | 4,294 | 7% | $4,500 | ||
2PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 2.74 0.15 down from 2005 | 3,371 | 5% | $3,980 | ||
3Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.79Q1 | 2.76 0.17 down from 2005 | 813 | 10% | $4,550 | ||
4European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 2.01 0.19 up from 2005 | 1,031 | 6% | $4,330 | ||
5Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 1.39Q1 | 1.42 0.50 up from 2005 | 230 | 9% | $4,480 | ||
6Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.34Q1 | 1.73 0.10 down from 2005 | 1,121 | 11% | $3,200 | ||
7Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 1.26 0.07 down from 2005 | 389 | 3% | $3,370 | ||
8Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 1.28Q1 | 1.49 0.05 up from 2005 | 607 | 8% | $4,270 | ||
9Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 1.84 0.03 down from 2005 | 991 | 5% | $4,190 | ||
10Progress in Organic CoatingsElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.18Q1 | 1.52 0.13 up from 2005 | 462 | 5% | $4,350 | ||
11Macromolecular Materials and EngineeringOAWiley · Germany | 1.14Q1 | 1.32 0.26 down from 2005 | 392 | 11% | $3,150 | ||
12Reactive and Functional PolymersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.06Q1 | 1.47 0.17 down from 2005 | 388 | 6% | $3,920 | ||
13Polymer InternationalWiley · United States | 1.02Q1 | 1.45 0.18 up from 2005 | 884 | 13% | $3,890 | ||
14Polymers for Advanced TechnologiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.84Q1 | 1.39 0.44 up from 2005 | 369 | 4% | $4,800 | ||
15Rubber Chemistry and TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.78Q2 | 0.74 0.01 down from 2005 | 198 | 6% | — | ||
16Journal of Applied Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.78Q2 | 1.28 0.09 up from 2005 | 4,796 | 6% | $4,140 | ||
17Journal of Coatings TechnologySpringer Nature · United States | 0.77Q2 | —no 2005 value | 36 | — | — | ||
18High Performance PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.77Q2 | 0.89 0.19 up from 2005 | 125 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
19Textile Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.67Q2 | 0.84 0.24 up from 2005 | 490 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
20Advances in Polymer TechnologyOAWiley · United States | 0.65Q2 | 0.65 0.03 down from 2005 | 99 | 6% | $2,160 | ||
21Journal of Thermoplastic Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.64Q2 | 0.58 0.05 up from 2005 | 96 | 24% | $4,400 | ||
22Polymer JournalSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.62Q2 | 1.17 0.01 down from 2005 | 411 | 5% | $4,390 | ||
23Journal of Macromolecular Science Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.59Q2 | 0.74 0.04 down from 2005 | 253 | 6% | — | ||
24Designed Monomers & PolymersOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.59Q2 | 0.87 0.01 down from 2005 | 145 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
25International Polymer ProcessingDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.58Q2 | 0.75 0.15 up from 2005 | 188 | 4% | $2,712 | ||
26Polymer BulletinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.54Q2 | 0.86 0.10 up from 2005 | 427 | 7% | $3,790 | ||
27Journal of Cellular PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.52Q2 | 0.60 0.06 up from 2005 | 105 | 14% | $4,400 | ||
28Journal of Polymer ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 0.49Q3 | 0.61 0.26 down from 2005 | 156 | 0% | $3,890 | ||
29Journal of Vinyl and Additive TechnologyWiley · United States | 0.47Q3 | 0.58 0.23 up from 2005 | 87 | 3% | $3,800 | ||
30Journal of Elastomers & PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.45Q3 | 0.46 0.05 down from 2005 | 71 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
31Autex Research JournalOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.44Q3 | 0.29 0.10 down from 2005 | 99 | 93% | $1,695 | ||
32International Journal of Polymer Analysis and CharacterizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.44Q3 | 0.64 0.21 up from 2005 | 70 | 3% | — | ||
33Journal of Macromolecular Science Part ATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.43Q3 | 0.82 0.06 up from 2005 | 367 | 7% | — | ||
34Cellular PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.41Q3 | 0.58 0.30 down from 2005 | 53 | 6% | $4,150 | ||
35Journal of Polymer EngineeringDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.39Q3 | 0.28 0.01 down from 2005 | 94 | 3% | $2,712 | ||
36Plastics Rubber and Composites Macromolecular EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.39Q3 | 0.34 0.15 down from 2005 | 195 | 13% | $4,150 | ||
37Progress in Rubber Plastics and Recycling TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.39Q3 | 0.54 0.28 up from 2005 | 58 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
38Macromolecular ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.37Q3 | 1.01 0.22 up from 2005 | 257 | 1% | $3,390 | ||
39Polymer-Plastics Technology and EngineeringMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.42 0.03 down from 2005 | 286 | 2% | — | ||
40Polymers and Polymer CompositesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.35Q3 | 0.36 0.21 down from 2005 | 208 | 4% | $2,000 | ||
41Journal of Natural FibersOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.35Q4 | 0.40 0.30 up from 2005 | 58 | 3% | $2,070 | ||
42Fibers and PolymersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.30Q4 | 0.71 0.20 up from 2005 | 142 | 0% | $2,490 | ||
43Chinese Journal of Polymer ScienceSpringer Nature · United States | 0.29Q4 | 0.29 0.09 up from 2005 | 132 | 0% | $3,990 | ||
44International Journal of Clothing Science and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.27Q4 | 0.28 0.01 down from 2005 | 110 | 10% | — | ||
45PolimeryOAIndustrial Chemistry Research Institute · Poland | 0.26Q4 | 0.31 0.10 up from 2005 | 357 | 100% | — | ||
46International Nonwovens JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.22Q4 | 0.13 0.01 up from 2005 | 116 | — | — | ||
47e-PolymersOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.20Q4 | 0.27 0.09 up from 2005 | 239 | 59% | $1,808 | ||
48Fibres and Textiles in Eastern EuropeOAIndex Copernicus International S.A. · Poland | 0.17Q4 | 0.31 0.03 up from 2005 | 212 | 0% | — | ||
49PolímerosOAAssociação Brasileira de Polímeros · Brazil | 0.13Q4 | 0.20 0.03 up from 2005 | 182 | 100% | $152 | ||
50Journal of the Textile InstituteTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.13Q4 | 0.17 0.14 up from 2005 | 129 | 7% | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Polymers and Plastics highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry177
- Polymers and Plastics53
- Biomaterials18
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials9
- Ceramics and Composites5
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films5
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
11 additional Polymers and Plastics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2003–2005, 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: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 53
- Window papers (baseline)
- 32,318 +21.1% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.523 -3.0% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 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.