Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Polymers and Plastics journal rankings 2012
59 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Polymers and Plastics has 59 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.63, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 0.97. The top three are Macromolecules, Polymer, and Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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)
59 ranked journals
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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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.74Q1 | 6.15 0.44 up from 2011 | 3,887 | 9% | $4,500 | ||
2PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 3.86 0.11 up from 2011 | 2,313 | 8% | $3,980 | ||
3Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.91Q1 | 4.10 0.09 up from 2011 | 985 | 18% | $4,550 | ||
4Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 3.46 0.06 up from 2011 | 908 | 13% | $4,190 | ||
5European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 2.87 0.12 up from 2011 | 822 | 11% | $4,330 | ||
6eXPRESS Polymer LettersOABudapest University of Technology and Economics · Hungary | 1.43Q1 | 2.71 0.48 up from 2011 | 322 | 100% | — | ||
7Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 1.94 0.16 down from 2011 | 402 | 22% | $3,370 | ||
8Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.37Q1 | 2.80 0.80 up from 2011 | 747 | 15% | $3,200 | ||
9Polymer InternationalWiley · United States | 1.29Q1 | 2.49 0.46 up from 2011 | 705 | 7% | $3,890 | ||
10Progress in Organic CoatingsElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.24Q1 | 2.15 0.11 down from 2011 | 610 | 7% | $4,350 | ||
11Reactive and Functional PolymersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q1 | 2.74 0.10 up from 2011 | 404 | 9% | $3,920 | ||
12Macromolecular Materials and EngineeringOAWiley · Germany | 1.16Q1 | 2.42 0.29 up from 2011 | 448 | 20% | $3,150 | ||
13Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 1.10Q1 | 1.63 0.06 down from 2011 | 541 | 7% | $4,480 | ||
14Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 1.03Q1 | 1.53 0.14 down from 2011 | 921 | 8% | $4,270 | ||
15Journal of Industrial TextilesOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.97Q1 | 1.30 0.48 up from 2011 | 92 | 23% | — | ||
16Journal of Vinyl and Additive TechnologyWiley · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.31 0.25 up from 2011 | 113 | 0% | $3,800 | ||
17Polymers for Advanced TechnologiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 1.53 0.29 up from 2011 | 736 | 8% | $4,800 | ||
18Textile Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.34 0.07 down from 2011 | 652 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
19Fibers and PolymersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.83Q2 | 1.36 0.13 up from 2011 | 458 | 1% | $2,490 | ||
20Journal of Applied Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.82Q2 | 1.50 0.01 down from 2011 | 6,195 | 7% | $4,140 | ||
21Journal of Polymer ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 0.77Q2 | 2.24 1.18 up from 2011 | 434 | 4% | $3,890 | ||
22Polymer BulletinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.75Q2 | 1.25 0.23 down from 2011 | 660 | 5% | $3,790 | ||
23Journal of Cellular PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 0.84 0.04 down from 2011 | 103 | 9% | $4,400 | ||
24Macromolecular ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.71Q2 | 1.86 0.34 up from 2011 | 584 | 5% | $3,390 | ||
25Polymer JournalSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.71Q2 | 1.73 0.29 up from 2011 | 507 | 11% | $4,390 | ||
26Polymer-Plastics Technology and EngineeringMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.67Q2 | 1.79 0.10 up from 2011 | 639 | 0% | — | ||
27Journal of Natural FibersOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.67Q2 | 0.84 0.18 up from 2011 | 70 | 5% | $2,070 | ||
28Journal of Thermoplastic Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.65Q2 | 0.77 0.04 down from 2011 | 263 | 6% | $4,400 | ||
29High Performance PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.64Q2 | 1.20 0.45 up from 2011 | 144 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
30Designed Monomers & PolymersOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.63Q2 | 1.59 0.05 down from 2011 | 143 | 96% | $1,533 | ||
31International Journal of Polymer ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 1.25 0.59 up from 2011 | 85 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
32Plastics Rubber and Composites Macromolecular EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 0.74 0.07 down from 2011 | 202 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
33Advances in Polymer TechnologyOAWiley · United States | 0.59Q3 | 1.10 0.10 down from 2011 | 129 | 11% | $2,160 | ||
34Journal of Engineered Fibers and FabricsOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 0.89 0.05 down from 2011 | 87 | 83% | $2,100 | ||
35Autex Research JournalOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.55Q3 | 0.75 0.39 up from 2011 | 68 | 100% | $1,695 | ||
36Journal of the Textile InstituteTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 0.65 0.07 down from 2011 | 380 | 5% | — | ||
37International Journal of Clothing Science and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.51Q3 | 0.60 0.22 down from 2011 | 95 | 13% | — | ||
38International Journal of Polymer Analysis and CharacterizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.51Q3 | 1.61 0.12 down from 2011 | 155 | 7% | — | ||
39Chinese Journal of Polymer ScienceSpringer Nature · United States | 0.48Q3 | 1.24 0.34 up from 2011 | 346 | 3% | $3,990 | ||
40Rubber Chemistry and TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.47Q3 | 0.58 0.08 up from 2011 | 99 | 0% | — | ||
41Journal of Macromolecular Science Part ATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.46Q3 | 0.96 0.01 down from 2011 | 443 | 3% | — | ||
42Journal of Elastomers & PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.67 0.01 up from 2011 | 122 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
43Journal of Macromolecular Science Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.69 0.12 down from 2011 | 494 | 3% | — | ||
44International Polymer ProcessingDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.43Q3 | 0.67 0.07 up from 2011 | 183 | 7% | $2,712 | ||
45Fibres and Textiles in Eastern EuropeOAIndex Copernicus International S.A. · Poland | 0.40Q3 | 0.69 0.24 up from 2011 | 269 | 0% | — | ||
46PolímerosOAAssociação Brasileira de Polímeros · Brazil | 0.40Q4 | 0.66 0.06 up from 2011 | 209 | 100% | $152 | ||
47Cellular PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.31Q4 | 0.38 0.05 up from 2011 | 48 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
48International Journal of Plastics TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.30Q4 | 0.53 0.31 up from 2011 | 64 | 0% | — | ||
49PolimeryOAIndustrial Chemistry Research Institute · Poland | 0.29Q4 | 0.35 0.03 down from 2011 | 369 | 100% | — | ||
50Polymers and Polymer CompositesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.27Q4 | 0.39 0.03 up from 2011 | 239 | 5% | $2,000 |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Polymers and Plastics highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry240
- Polymers and Plastics59
- Biomaterials21
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials9
- Ceramics and Composites5
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films4
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
20 additional Polymers and Plastics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 59
- Window papers (baseline)
- 44,839 +14.2% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.627 -0.6% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.