Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Polymers and Plastics journal rankings 2013
62 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Polymers and Plastics has 62 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 0.85. The top three are Macromolecules, Polymer, and Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
62 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.67Q1 | 6.39 0.25 up from 2012 | 3,537 | 12% | $4,500 | ||
2PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 3.76 0.10 down from 2012 | 2,330 | 12% | $3,980 | ||
3Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.73Q1 | 4.21 1.41 up from 2012 | 667 | 18% | $3,200 | ||
4Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.69Q1 | 3.88 0.22 down from 2012 | 999 | 19% | $4,550 | ||
5Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 2.96 0.49 down from 2012 | 981 | 11% | $4,190 | ||
6European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.01 0.14 up from 2012 | 755 | 16% | $4,330 | ||
7eXPRESS Polymer LettersOABudapest University of Technology and Economics · Hungary | 1.47Q1 | 2.96 0.25 up from 2012 | 321 | 100% | — | ||
8Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 2.28 0.33 up from 2012 | 423 | 21% | $3,370 | ||
9Progress in Organic CoatingsElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.36Q1 | 2.56 0.41 up from 2012 | 673 | 7% | $4,350 | ||
10Reactive and Functional PolymersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q1 | 2.52 0.22 down from 2012 | 449 | 11% | $3,920 | ||
11Polymer InternationalWiley · United States | 1.17Q1 | 2.07 0.42 down from 2012 | 769 | 6% | $3,890 | ||
12Polymers for Advanced TechnologiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.07Q1 | 1.96 0.43 up from 2012 | 516 | 7% | $4,800 | ||
13Macromolecular Materials and EngineeringOAWiley · Germany | 1.05Q1 | 2.08 0.34 down from 2012 | 513 | 20% | $3,150 | ||
14Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 1.02Q1 | 1.85 0.22 up from 2012 | 578 | 4% | $4,480 | ||
15Textile Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.94Q1 | 1.47 0.13 up from 2012 | 606 | 2% | $4,150 | ||
16Journal of Cellular PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.85Q1 | 1.23 0.39 up from 2012 | 100 | 8% | $4,400 | ||
17Journal of Applied Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.62 0.12 up from 2012 | 6,425 | 9% | $4,140 | ||
18Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 0.82Q2 | 1.50 0.02 down from 2012 | 941 | 8% | $4,270 | ||
19Journal of Polymer ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 0.82Q2 | 2.24no change | 607 | 5% | $3,890 | ||
20International Journal of Polymer ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 1.72 0.48 up from 2012 | 122 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
21Journal of Industrial TextilesOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.80Q2 | 0.92 0.38 down from 2012 | 123 | 25% | — | ||
22Polymer-Plastics Technology and EngineeringMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.77Q2 | 2.95 1.16 up from 2012 | 675 | 3% | — | ||
23Polymer JournalSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.73Q2 | 1.45 0.28 down from 2012 | 547 | 12% | $4,390 | ||
24Designed Monomers & PolymersOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.72Q2 | 2.21 0.62 up from 2012 | 180 | 99% | $1,533 | ||
25Polymer BulletinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.71Q2 | 1.46 0.21 up from 2012 | 655 | 4% | $3,790 | ||
26Rubber Chemistry and TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.68Q2 | 1.43 0.85 up from 2012 | 107 | 10% | — | ||
27Fibers and PolymersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.68Q2 | 1.45 0.09 up from 2012 | 523 | 2% | $2,490 | ||
28Macromolecular ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.67Q2 | 1.59 0.27 down from 2012 | 632 | 4% | $3,390 | ||
29Advances in Polymer TechnologyOAWiley · United States | 0.66Q2 | 1.13 0.03 up from 2012 | 180 | 3% | $2,160 | ||
30Journal of Vinyl and Additive TechnologyWiley · United States | 0.65Q2 | 1.14 0.18 down from 2012 | 106 | 5% | $3,800 | ||
31High Performance PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.65Q2 | 1.10 0.09 down from 2012 | 227 | 1% | $4,150 | ||
32Iranian Polymer JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.59Q3 | 1.47 0.19 down from 2012 | 118 | 3% | $3,790 | ||
33Plastics Rubber and Composites Macromolecular EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 0.76 0.03 up from 2012 | 204 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
34Chinese Journal of Polymer ScienceSpringer Nature · United States | 0.55Q3 | 1.30 0.06 up from 2012 | 331 | 3% | $3,990 | ||
35Journal of Thermoplastic Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.54Q3 | 0.90 0.13 up from 2012 | 293 | 6% | $4,400 | ||
36Journal of the Textile InstituteTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 1.02 0.37 up from 2012 | 425 | 7% | — | ||
37Journal of Engineered Fibers and FabricsOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 0.82 0.08 down from 2012 | 134 | 48% | $2,100 | ||
38Autex Research JournalOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.52Q3 | 0.97 0.22 up from 2012 | 59 | 100% | $1,695 | ||
39International Polymer ProcessingDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.52Q3 | 0.78 0.11 up from 2012 | 200 | 4% | $2,712 | ||
40Journal of Plastic Film & SheetingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.51Q3 | 1.02 0.39 up from 2012 | 55 | 6% | $4,400 | ||
41International Journal of Clothing Science and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 0.60no change | 98 | 8% | — | ||
42International Journal of Polymer Analysis and CharacterizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.49Q3 | 1.76 0.16 up from 2012 | 161 | 2% | — | ||
43Cellular PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.44Q3 | 0.80 0.43 up from 2012 | 45 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
44International Journal of Plastics TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.42Q3 | 0.70 0.17 up from 2012 | 65 | 6% | — | ||
45Journal of Elastomers & PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.42Q3 | 0.53 0.13 down from 2012 | 152 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
46Journal of Macromolecular Science Part ATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.87 0.09 down from 2012 | 434 | 7% | — | ||
47Journal of Macromolecular Science Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.72 0.03 up from 2012 | 590 | 3% | — | ||
48Journal of Natural FibersOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.35Q4 | 0.73 0.11 down from 2012 | 64 | 3% | $2,070 | ||
49PolímerosOAAssociação Brasileira de Polímeros · Brazil | 0.34Q4 | 0.71 0.05 up from 2012 | 233 | 100% | $152 | ||
50Fibres and Textiles in Eastern EuropeOAIndex Copernicus International S.A. · Poland | 0.33Q4 | 0.55 0.14 down from 2012 | 297 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Polymers and Plastics highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry256
- Polymers and Plastics62
- Biomaterials24
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials9
- Ceramics and Composites7
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films4
- General Materials Science1
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
25 additional Polymers and Plastics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 62
- Window papers (baseline)
- 46,841 +14.2% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.6190 +12.8% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.