Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Polymers and Plastics journal rankings 2014
67 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Polymers and Plastics has 67 ranked journals in 2014. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2013; Q1 starts at OJR 0.92. The top three are Macromolecules, Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics, and Polymer.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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)
67 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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.56Q1 | 6.14 0.26 down from 2013 | 3,315 | 16% | $4,500 | ||
2Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.96Q1 | 3.96 0.25 down from 2013 | 554 | 17% | $3,200 | ||
3PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 3.59 0.17 down from 2013 | 2,305 | 12% | $3,980 | ||
4Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 3.49 0.53 up from 2013 | 953 | 13% | $4,190 | ||
5European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 3.38 0.37 up from 2013 | 878 | 15% | $4,330 | ||
6Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 2.65 0.37 up from 2013 | 466 | 13% | $3,370 | ||
7eXPRESS Polymer LettersOABudapest University of Technology and Economics · Hungary | 1.59Q1 | 3.00 0.04 up from 2013 | 322 | 100% | — | ||
8Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.58Q1 | 3.90 0.02 up from 2013 | 990 | 22% | $4,550 | ||
9Progress in Organic CoatingsElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.46Q1 | 2.88 0.33 up from 2013 | 727 | 9% | $4,350 | ||
10Reactive and Functional PolymersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q1 | 2.74 0.22 up from 2013 | 464 | 14% | $3,920 | ||
11International Journal of Polymer ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.08Q1 | 1.34 0.38 down from 2013 | 156 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
12Polymer InternationalWiley · United States | 1.02Q1 | 2.02 0.05 down from 2013 | 789 | 7% | $3,890 | ||
13International journal of composite materialsOAUnited States | 1.00Q1 | 1.36 0.71 up from 2013 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
14Macromolecular Materials and EngineeringOAWiley · Germany | 0.99Q1 | 2.00 0.08 down from 2013 | 503 | 17% | $3,150 | ||
15Journal of Cellular PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.97Q1 | 2.13 0.90 up from 2013 | 106 | 2% | $4,400 | ||
16Polymers for Advanced TechnologiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.95Q1 | 1.80 0.16 down from 2013 | 430 | 4% | $4,800 | ||
17Textile Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.92Q1 | 1.68 0.21 up from 2013 | 585 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
18Journal of Polymer ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 0.90Q2 | 2.49 0.25 up from 2013 | 724 | 4% | $3,890 | ||
19Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 0.87Q2 | 1.68 0.17 down from 2013 | 911 | 6% | $4,480 | ||
20Journal of Applied Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.84Q2 | 1.87 0.24 up from 2013 | 5,898 | 11% | $4,140 | ||
21Polymer-Plastics Technology and EngineeringMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.77Q2 | 3.05 0.10 up from 2013 | 708 | 2% | — | ||
22Polymer JournalSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.77Q2 | 1.84 0.39 up from 2013 | 495 | 13% | $4,390 | ||
23Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 0.77Q2 | 1.38 0.13 down from 2013 | 1,110 | 6% | $4,270 | ||
24Designed Monomers & PolymersOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.75Q2 | 1.76 0.45 down from 2013 | 202 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
25Journal of Natural FibersOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.72Q2 | 0.92 0.19 up from 2013 | 70 | 5% | $2,070 | ||
26Iranian Polymer JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.71Q2 | 1.92 0.44 up from 2013 | 211 | 3% | $3,790 | ||
27Advances in Polymer TechnologyOAWiley · United States | 0.71Q2 | 1.32 0.19 up from 2013 | 227 | 4% | $2,160 | ||
28Polymer BulletinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.68Q2 | 1.48 0.03 up from 2013 | 650 | 5% | $3,790 | ||
29Fibers and PolymersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.67Q2 | 1.27 0.19 down from 2013 | 660 | 2% | $2,490 | ||
30Chinese Journal of Polymer ScienceSpringer Nature · United States | 0.67Q2 | 1.80 0.50 up from 2013 | 370 | 0% | $3,990 | ||
31American Journal of Polymer ScienceOAUnited States | 0.67Q2 | 1.05 0.37 up from 2013 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Vinyl and Additive TechnologyWiley · United States | 0.66Q2 | 1.56 0.43 up from 2013 | 108 | 5% | $3,800 | ||
33High Performance PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.64Q2 | 1.35 0.25 up from 2013 | 298 | 1% | $4,150 | ||
34Open Journal of Composite MaterialsOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.62Q2 | 0.97 0.12 up from 2013 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
35Journal of Industrial TextilesOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.62Q3 | 1.03 0.11 up from 2013 | 148 | 18% | — | ||
36Journal of the Textile InstituteTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 1.17 0.14 up from 2013 | 476 | 3% | — | ||
37Macromolecular ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.61Q3 | 1.52 0.07 down from 2013 | 605 | 2% | $3,390 | ||
38Journal of Plastic Film & SheetingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 1.09 0.07 up from 2013 | 73 | 0% | $4,400 | ||
39Rubber Chemistry and TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.57Q3 | 1.00 0.43 down from 2013 | 144 | 10% | — | ||
40Cellular PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 0.56 0.24 down from 2013 | 44 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
41Journal of Thermoplastic Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.54Q3 | 0.78 0.12 down from 2013 | 382 | 5% | $4,400 | ||
42International Polymer ProcessingDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.50Q3 | 0.62 0.16 down from 2013 | 220 | 1% | $2,712 | ||
43Journal of Engineered Fibers and FabricsOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 0.80 0.02 down from 2013 | 175 | 27% | $2,100 | ||
44ISRN Polymer ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.47Q3 | 0.84 0.18 up from 2013 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
45Autex Research JournalOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.46Q3 | 0.52 0.45 down from 2013 | 63 | 100% | $1,695 | ||
46International Journal of Polymer Analysis and CharacterizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.45Q3 | 1.34 0.42 down from 2013 | 193 | 3% | — | ||
47Journal of Elastomers & PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.42Q3 | 0.62 0.09 up from 2013 | 173 | 6% | $4,150 | ||
48Plastics Rubber and Composites Macromolecular EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.41Q3 | 0.67 0.09 down from 2013 | 197 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
49International Journal of Clothing Science and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.40Q3 | 0.61 0.01 up from 2013 | 105 | 0% | — | ||
50Journal of Macromolecular Science Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.69 0.03 down from 2013 | 584 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Polymers and Plastics highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry277
- Polymers and Plastics67
- Biomaterials27
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials10
- Ceramics and Composites7
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films6
- General Materials Science1
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
21 additional Polymers and Plastics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 67
- Window papers (baseline)
- 48,915 +15.5% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 0.6187 +7.2% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.