Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Polymers and Plastics journal rankings 2018
77 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Polymers and Plastics has 77 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.51, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 0.69. The top three are Macromolecules, Polymer Degradation and Stability, and European Polymer Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
77 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.01Q1 | 6.46 0.33 up from 2017 | 3,000 | 23% | $4,500 | ||
2Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 4.30 0.58 up from 2017 | 891 | 23% | $4,190 | ||
3European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 4.03 0.08 up from 2017 | 1,569 | 23% | $4,330 | ||
4Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 3.66 0.96 up from 2017 | 904 | 16% | $3,370 | ||
5PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 4.02 0.33 up from 2017 | 2,810 | 17% | $3,980 | ||
6Progress in Organic CoatingsElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.30Q1 | 3.85 0.68 up from 2017 | 920 | 13% | $4,350 | ||
7Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.28Q1 | 3.80 0.04 up from 2017 | 934 | 25% | $4,550 | ||
8eXPRESS Polymer LettersOABudapest University of Technology and Economics · Hungary | 1.22Q1 | 3.03no change | 292 | 100% | — | ||
9Reactive and Functional PolymersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q1 | 3.03 0.07 down from 2017 | 538 | 20% | $3,920 | ||
10Macromolecular Materials and EngineeringOAWiley · Germany | 0.99Q1 | 3.07 0.57 up from 2017 | 487 | 30% | $3,150 | ||
11FibersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.97Q1 | 2.36 0.15 up from 2017 | 109 | 100% | $2,413 | ||
12Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer PhysicsWiley · United States | 0.94Q1 | 2.73 0.33 up from 2017 | 608 | 38% | $3,200 | ||
13Polymer InternationalWiley · United States | 0.86Q1 | 2.58 0.13 up from 2017 | 569 | 19% | $3,890 | ||
14Journal of Applied Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.82Q1 | 2.34 0.17 up from 2017 | 3,956 | 13% | $4,140 | ||
15Open Journal of Composite MaterialsOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.80Q1 | 2.03 0.08 up from 2017 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
16Polymers for Advanced TechnologiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.79Q1 | 2.22 0.17 up from 2017 | 733 | 10% | $4,800 | ||
17Polymer JournalSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.79Q1 | 2.33 0.40 up from 2017 | 478 | 17% | $4,390 | ||
18International Journal of Polymer ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.79Q1 | 1.59 0.08 down from 2017 | 445 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
19Chinese Journal of Polymer ScienceSpringer Nature · United States | 0.78Q1 | 2.69 0.60 up from 2017 | 477 | 1% | $3,990 | ||
20Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 0.69Q1 | 1.51 0.29 up from 2017 | 1,302 | 8% | $4,480 | ||
21Journal of Industrial TextilesOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.69Q2 | 1.68 0.53 up from 2017 | 289 | 10% | — | ||
22Fibers and PolymersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.67Q2 | 1.90 0.17 up from 2017 | 878 | 4% | $2,490 | ||
23Iranian Polymer JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.66Q2 | 1.93 0.20 up from 2017 | 288 | 3% | $3,790 | ||
24Journal of Cellular PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.66Q2 | 1.20 0.12 down from 2017 | 99 | 24% | $4,400 | ||
25International Journal of Plastics TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.66Q2 | 1.57 0.40 up from 2017 | 87 | 0% | — | ||
26Autex Research JournalOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.65Q2 | 1.34 0.40 up from 2017 | 133 | 100% | $1,695 | ||
27Journal of Polymer ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 0.65Q2 | 1.87 0.17 down from 2017 | 773 | 5% | $3,890 | ||
28International Journal of Polymer Analysis and CharacterizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.64Q2 | 1.57 0.31 down from 2017 | 230 | 13% | — | ||
29Polymer-Plastics Technology and EngineeringMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.63Q2 | 1.51 0.20 down from 2017 | 594 | 7% | — | ||
30Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 0.62Q2 | 1.41 0.32 down from 2017 | 738 | 13% | $4,270 | ||
31Macromolecular ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.61Q2 | 1.90 0.02 up from 2017 | 487 | 5% | $3,390 | ||
32Designed Monomers & PolymersOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.59Q2 | 1.71 0.34 up from 2017 | 186 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
33Textile Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.57Q2 | 1.36 0.08 up from 2017 | 791 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
34Polymer BulletinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.55Q2 | 1.47 0.07 up from 2017 | 1,030 | 7% | $3,790 | ||
35Journal of Natural FibersOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.55Q2 | 1.80 0.13 up from 2017 | 282 | 7% | $2,070 | ||
36Journal of the Textile InstituteTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.54Q2 | 1.23 0.19 up from 2017 | 589 | 8% | — | ||
37Plastics Rubber and Composites Macromolecular EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.52Q2 | 1.45 0.57 up from 2017 | 171 | 10% | $4,150 | ||
38Journal of Plastic Film & SheetingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.52Q2 | 0.98 0.26 down from 2017 | 74 | 11% | $4,400 | ||
39e-PolymersOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.51Q2 | 1.42 0.41 up from 2017 | 208 | 82% | $1,808 | ||
40Rubber Chemistry and TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.50Q3 | 1.07 0.31 down from 2017 | 169 | 2% | — | ||
41Journal of PolymersHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.49Q3 | 1.42 0.74 up from 2017 | 30 | — | — | ||
42PolímerosOAAssociação Brasileira de Polímeros · Brazil | 0.49Q3 | 1.16 0.08 down from 2017 | 221 | 100% | $152 | ||
43Journal of Thermoplastic Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.48Q3 | 0.76 0.11 up from 2017 | 244 | 5% | $4,400 | ||
44International Journal of Clothing Science and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 0.98 0.12 down from 2017 | 190 | 4% | — | ||
45Advances in Polymer TechnologyOAWiley · United States | 0.47Q3 | 0.93 0.06 up from 2017 | 444 | 16% | $2,160 | ||
46Journal of Polymer EngineeringDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.47Q3 | 1.12 0.32 up from 2017 | 286 | 12% | $2,712 | ||
47High Performance PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.44Q3 | 1.22 0.14 up from 2017 | 422 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
48Cellular PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.44Q3 | 1.03 0.57 down from 2017 | 47 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
49Progress in Rubber Plastics and Recycling TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 0.83 0.13 up from 2017 | 53 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
50Journal of Macromolecular Science Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.42Q3 | 1.26 0.06 up from 2017 | 261 | 5% | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Polymers and Plastics highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry324
- Polymers and Plastics77
- Biomaterials34
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials11
- Ceramics and Composites7
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films5
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 additional Polymers and Plastics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 77
- Window papers (baseline)
- 45,002 -8.8% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.511 -10.3% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.