Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Polymers and Plastics journal rankings 2008
56 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Polymers and Plastics has 56 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.51, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.02. The top three are Macromolecules, Polymer, and Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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)
56 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.29Q1 | 4.52 0.11 up from 2007 | 4,072 | 7% | $4,500 | ||
2PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 3.65 0.38 up from 2007 | 3,197 | 8% | $3,980 | ||
3Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.98Q1 | 3.50 0.07 up from 2007 | 1,026 | 15% | $4,550 | ||
4European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 2.40 0.06 up from 2007 | 1,242 | 8% | $4,330 | ||
5Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 2.08 0.20 down from 2007 | 929 | 7% | $4,190 | ||
6Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 1.78 0.28 up from 2007 | 400 | 11% | $3,370 | ||
7Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.34Q1 | 2.11 0.12 up from 2007 | 1,033 | 11% | $3,200 | ||
8Polymers for Advanced TechnologiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 2.02 0.24 up from 2007 | 467 | 5% | $4,800 | ||
9Reactive and Functional PolymersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q1 | 2.13 0.24 up from 2007 | 539 | 6% | $3,920 | ||
10Macromolecular Materials and EngineeringOAWiley · Germany | 1.22Q1 | 2.01 0.38 up from 2007 | 453 | 16% | $3,150 | ||
11Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 1.19Q1 | 1.39 0.19 down from 2007 | 678 | 6% | $4,270 | ||
12Polymer InternationalWiley · United States | 1.15Q1 | 1.88 0.35 up from 2007 | 617 | 7% | $3,890 | ||
13Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 1.10Q1 | 1.19 0.16 down from 2007 | 291 | 4% | $4,480 | ||
14eXPRESS Polymer LettersOABudapest University of Technology and Economics · Hungary | 1.02Q1 | 1.56no 2007 value | 117 | 100% | — | — | |
15Progress in Organic CoatingsElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.01Q2 | 1.44 0.06 down from 2007 | 480 | 3% | $4,350 | ||
16Journal of Thermoplastic Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.84Q2 | 0.75 0.01 up from 2007 | 108 | 13% | $4,400 | ||
17Journal of Applied Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.78Q2 | 1.25 0.16 up from 2007 | 6,157 | 5% | $4,140 | ||
18Advances in Polymer TechnologyOAWiley · United States | 0.78Q2 | 0.86 0.24 up from 2007 | 84 | 16% | $2,160 | ||
19Textile Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 0.64 0.16 down from 2007 | 376 | 1% | $4,150 | ||
20Journal of Industrial TextilesOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.63Q2 | 0.64 0.31 up from 2007 | 63 | 23% | — | ||
21Journal of Macromolecular Science Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.63Q2 | 0.93 0.05 up from 2007 | 293 | 3% | — | ||
22Journal of Cellular PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.63Q2 | 0.69 0.07 up from 2007 | 94 | 0% | $4,400 | ||
23Journal of Polymer ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 0.63Q2 | 1.06 0.08 up from 2007 | 220 | 7% | $3,890 | ||
24Rubber Chemistry and TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.62Q2 | 0.64 0.01 up from 2007 | 158 | 2% | — | ||
25Polymer BulletinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.61Q2 | 1.01 0.06 up from 2007 | 564 | 4% | $3,790 | ||
26Polymer JournalSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.59Q2 | 1.17 0.20 down from 2007 | 519 | 3% | $4,390 | ||
27Journal of Elastomers & PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.53Q2 | 0.55 0.01 down from 2007 | 62 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
28Cellular PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.52Q2 | 0.60 0.52 down from 2007 | 48 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
29Macromolecular ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.51Q3 | 1.73 0.04 up from 2007 | 297 | 2% | $3,390 | ||
30High Performance PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.51Q3 | 0.73 0.06 down from 2007 | 186 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
31Journal of the Textile InstituteTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 0.66 0.29 up from 2007 | 184 | 6% | — | ||
32International Journal of Clothing Science and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.53 0.10 down from 2007 | 97 | 0% | — | ||
33Journal of Polymer EngineeringDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.44Q3 | 0.45 0.07 up from 2007 | 117 | 9% | $2,712 | ||
34International Polymer ProcessingDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.43Q3 | 0.53 0.15 down from 2007 | 231 | 3% | $2,712 | ||
35Journal of Plastic Film & SheetingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.41Q3 | 0.54 0.10 up from 2007 | 61 | 0% | $4,400 | ||
36Polymer-Plastics Technology and EngineeringMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.41Q3 | 0.56 0.08 up from 2007 | 469 | 2% | — | ||
37Journal of Macromolecular Science Part ATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.40Q3 | 0.75 0.01 down from 2007 | 525 | 5% | — | ||
38Plastics Rubber and Composites Macromolecular EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.38Q3 | 0.52 0.03 down from 2007 | 188 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
39Designed Monomers & PolymersOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.38Q3 | 0.73 0.11 down from 2007 | 142 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
40Progress in Rubber Plastics and Recycling TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.38Q3 | 0.43 0.30 down from 2007 | 54 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
41Autex Research JournalOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.36Q3 | 0.42 0.28 up from 2007 | 95 | 84% | $1,695 | ||
42Journal of Vinyl and Additive TechnologyWiley · United States | 0.33Q3 | 0.33 0.34 down from 2007 | 103 | 8% | $3,800 | ||
43Polymers and Polymer CompositesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.33Q4 | 0.42 0.04 down from 2007 | 226 | 0% | $2,000 | ||
44Journal of Natural FibersOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.32Q4 | 0.48 0.29 up from 2007 | 91 | 0% | $2,070 | ||
45International Journal of Polymer Analysis and CharacterizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.32Q4 | 0.72 0.25 up from 2007 | 92 | 10% | — | ||
46Chinese Journal of Polymer ScienceSpringer Nature · United States | 0.31Q4 | 0.40 0.06 down from 2007 | 299 | 0% | $3,990 | ||
47Fibers and PolymersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.30Q4 | 0.67 0.06 up from 2007 | 229 | 2% | $2,490 | ||
48PolímerosOAAssociação Brasileira de Polímeros · Brazil | 0.28Q4 | 0.34 0.06 up from 2007 | 183 | 100% | $152 | ||
49Fibres and Textiles in Eastern EuropeOAIndex Copernicus International S.A. · Poland | 0.21Q4 | 0.36 0.09 up from 2007 | 277 | 0% | — | ||
50PolimeryOAIndustrial Chemistry Research Institute · Poland | 0.19Q4 | 0.33 0.01 down from 2007 | 348 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Polymers and Plastics highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry198
- Polymers and Plastics56
- Biomaterials18
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials8
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films5
- Ceramics and Composites4
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% 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 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 56
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,357 +23.9% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.514 -5.6% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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.