Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Polymers and Plastics journal rankings 2017
76 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Polymers and Plastics has 76 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.55, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 0.82. The top three are Macromolecules, European Polymer Journal, and Polymer Degradation and Stability.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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)
76 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.22Q1 | 6.13 0.03 up from 2016 | 2,959 | 21% | $4,500 | ||
2European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 3.95 0.02 down from 2016 | 1,361 | 20% | $4,330 | ||
3Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 3.72 0.01 down from 2016 | 957 | 20% | $4,190 | ||
4PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 3.70 0.20 down from 2016 | 2,711 | 20% | $3,980 | ||
5Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.36Q1 | 3.76 0.02 up from 2016 | 911 | 30% | $4,550 | ||
6eXPRESS Polymer LettersOABudapest University of Technology and Economics · Hungary | 1.36Q1 | 3.04 0.27 down from 2016 | 293 | 100% | — | ||
7Reactive and Functional PolymersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 3.11 0.22 down from 2016 | 467 | 12% | $3,920 | ||
8Progress in Organic CoatingsElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.30Q1 | 3.17 0.12 up from 2016 | 895 | 10% | $4,350 | ||
9Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 2.70 0.07 down from 2016 | 696 | 16% | $3,370 | ||
10Macromolecular Materials and EngineeringOAWiley · Germany | 1.09Q1 | 2.50 0.28 down from 2016 | 427 | 29% | $3,150 | ||
11Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.06Q1 | 2.39 0.39 down from 2016 | 589 | 21% | $3,200 | ||
12FibersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.03Q1 | 2.21 0.25 up from 2016 | 84 | 100% | $2,413 | ||
13Journal of Cellular PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.02Q1 | 1.32 0.29 down from 2016 | 125 | 0% | $4,400 | ||
14International Journal of Polymer Analysis and CharacterizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.98Q1 | 1.88 0.39 down from 2016 | 217 | 13% | — | ||
15Polymer InternationalWiley · United States | 0.93Q1 | 2.44 0.23 up from 2016 | 548 | 10% | $3,890 | ||
16Journal of Applied Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.86Q1 | 2.17 0.14 up from 2016 | 4,097 | 7% | $4,140 | ||
17Journal of Polymer ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 0.84Q1 | 2.04 0.14 down from 2016 | 815 | 6% | $3,890 | ||
18Polymers for Advanced TechnologiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.82Q1 | 2.05 0.06 up from 2016 | 701 | 5% | $4,800 | ||
19Polymer JournalSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.82Q1 | 1.93 0.01 down from 2016 | 489 | 12% | $4,390 | ||
20Journal of CompositesHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.80Q2 | 0.93 0.09 up from 2016 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
21International Journal of Polymer ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 1.67 0.35 up from 2016 | 392 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
22Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 0.74Q2 | 1.73 0.01 up from 2016 | 610 | 11% | $4,270 | ||
23Journal of Natural FibersOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.74Q2 | 1.66 0.31 up from 2016 | 194 | 2% | $2,070 | ||
24Iranian Polymer JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.72Q2 | 1.73no change | 284 | 2% | $3,790 | ||
25Open Journal of Composite MaterialsOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.69Q2 | 1.95 0.82 up from 2016 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
26Fibers and PolymersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.68Q2 | 1.73 0.25 up from 2016 | 936 | 4% | $2,490 | ||
27Textile Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.67Q2 | 1.28 0.21 down from 2016 | 798 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
28Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 0.64Q2 | 1.22 0.09 down from 2016 | 1,407 | 6% | $4,480 | ||
29Chinese Journal of Polymer ScienceSpringer Nature · United States | 0.64Q2 | 2.09 0.22 up from 2016 | 510 | 1% | $3,990 | ||
30Journal of the Textile InstituteTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.60Q2 | 1.04 0.04 down from 2016 | 598 | 6% | — | ||
31Macromolecular ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.60Q2 | 1.88 0.39 up from 2016 | 476 | 3% | $3,390 | ||
32Polymer-Plastics Technology and EngineeringMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.60Q2 | 1.71 0.18 up from 2016 | 610 | 4% | — | ||
33Journal of Plastic Film & SheetingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.59Q2 | 1.24 0.13 up from 2016 | 68 | 20% | $4,400 | ||
34Journal of Industrial TextilesOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.59Q2 | 1.15 0.21 up from 2016 | 288 | 12% | — | ||
35Polymer BulletinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.57Q2 | 1.40 0.01 down from 2016 | 852 | 7% | $3,790 | ||
36Autex Research JournalOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.56Q2 | 0.94 0.09 down from 2016 | 139 | 100% | $1,695 | ||
37Designed Monomers & PolymersOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.56Q2 | 1.37 0.14 up from 2016 | 215 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
38International Journal of Clothing Science and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.55Q2 | 1.10 0.41 up from 2016 | 161 | 5% | — | ||
39Cellular PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 1.60 1.12 up from 2016 | 43 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
40Journal of Macromolecular Science Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.53Q3 | 1.20 0.22 up from 2016 | 286 | 5% | — | ||
41Rubber Chemistry and TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.52Q3 | 1.38 0.38 up from 2016 | 149 | 5% | — | ||
42Journal of PolymersHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.50Q3 | 0.68 0.26 down from 2016 | 48 | 83% | — | ||
43American Journal of Polymer ScienceOAUnited States | 0.49Q3 | 1.13 0.44 up from 2016 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
44PolímerosOAAssociação Brasileira de Polímeros · Brazil | 0.48Q3 | 1.24 0.51 up from 2016 | 261 | 100% | $152 | ||
45International Journal of Plastics TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.44Q3 | 1.17 0.44 up from 2016 | 96 | 4% | — | ||
46Plastics Rubber and Composites Macromolecular EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.44Q3 | 0.88 0.05 up from 2016 | 156 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
47Journal of Engineered Fibers and FabricsOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 0.66 0.09 up from 2016 | 199 | 82% | $2,100 | ||
48Advances in Polymer TechnologyOAWiley · United States | 0.43Q3 | 0.86 0.11 down from 2016 | 389 | 8% | $2,160 | ||
49e-PolymersOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.42Q3 | 1.01 0.08 up from 2016 | 204 | 77% | $1,808 | ||
50High Performance PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.41Q3 | 1.09 0.11 up from 2016 | 435 | 1% | $4,150 |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Polymers and Plastics highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry312
- Polymers and Plastics76
- Biomaterials33
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials10
- Ceramics and Composites7
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films4
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. 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.
17 additional Polymers and Plastics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 76
- Window papers (baseline)
- 46,837 -4.2% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.54870 -11.3% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.