Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Polymers and Plastics journal rankings 2019
82 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Polymers and Plastics has 82 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.51, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 0.75. The top three are Macromolecules, Polymer Degradation and Stability, and Polymer Testing.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
82 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.77Q1 | 6.37 0.09 down from 2018 | 3,044 | 24% | $4,500 | ||
2Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 4.62 0.32 up from 2018 | 909 | 24% | $4,190 | ||
3Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 3.92 0.26 up from 2018 | 1,169 | 16% | $3,370 | ||
4Progress in Organic CoatingsElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.30Q1 | 5.13 1.28 up from 2018 | 1,020 | 13% | $4,350 | ||
5Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.30Q1 | 4.59 0.78 up from 2018 | 1,030 | 40% | $4,550 | ||
6PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 4.33 0.31 up from 2018 | 2,868 | 16% | $3,980 | ||
7European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 3.98 0.05 down from 2018 | 1,634 | 24% | $4,330 | ||
8Reactive and Functional PolymersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q1 | 3.47 0.43 up from 2018 | 622 | 13% | $3,920 | ||
9Journal of Composites ScienceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.09Q1 | 2.49 1.16 up from 2018 | 93 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
10FibersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.07Q1 | 3.23 0.87 up from 2018 | 173 | 100% | $2,413 | ||
11eXPRESS Polymer LettersOABudapest University of Technology and Economics · Hungary | 1.06Q1 | 3.41 0.38 up from 2018 | 287 | 100% | — | ||
12Macromolecular Materials and EngineeringOAWiley · Germany | 1.06Q1 | 3.58 0.50 up from 2018 | 583 | 26% | $3,150 | ||
13Open Journal of Composite MaterialsOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.91Q1 | 0.66 1.37 down from 2018 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
14Polymers for Advanced TechnologiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.88Q1 | 2.90 0.68 up from 2018 | 737 | 10% | $4,800 | ||
15Polymer InternationalWiley · United States | 0.85Q1 | 2.76 0.19 up from 2018 | 619 | 19% | $3,890 | ||
16Chinese Journal of Polymer ScienceSpringer Nature · United States | 0.81Q1 | 2.92 0.24 up from 2018 | 452 | 1% | $3,990 | ||
17Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer PhysicsWiley · United States | 0.79Q1 | 2.60 0.13 down from 2018 | 514 | 30% | $3,200 | ||
18Journal of Applied Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.79Q1 | 2.71 0.37 up from 2018 | 3,681 | 16% | $4,140 | ||
19International Journal of Polymer Analysis and CharacterizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.77Q1 | 2.21 0.64 up from 2018 | 212 | 10% | — | ||
20Polymer-Plastics Technology and EngineeringMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.77Q1 | 2.52 1.01 up from 2018 | 426 | — | — | ||
21Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 0.75Q1 | 2.01 0.50 up from 2018 | 1,244 | 12% | $4,480 | ||
22Polymer JournalSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.74Q2 | 2.43 0.10 up from 2018 | 474 | 12% | $4,390 | ||
23International Journal of Polymer ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 2.03 0.44 up from 2018 | 412 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
24Journal of Industrial TextilesOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.70Q2 | 1.98 0.30 up from 2018 | 305 | 14% | — | ||
25Plastics Rubber and Composites Macromolecular EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 2.03 0.58 up from 2018 | 170 | 4% | $4,150 | ||
26Journal of Natural FibersOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.69Q2 | 2.44 0.65 up from 2018 | 435 | 6% | $2,070 | ||
27Designed Monomers & PolymersOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.66Q2 | 1.75 0.04 up from 2018 | 129 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
28Polymer CrystallizationWiley · United States | 0.65Q2 | 1.79no 2018 value | 47 | 62% | $950 | — | |
29Fibers and PolymersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.65Q2 | 2.08 0.18 up from 2018 | 848 | 4% | $2,490 | ||
30Journal of Polymer ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 0.64Q2 | 2.67 0.80 up from 2018 | 762 | 6% | $3,890 | ||
31Journal of Cellular PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.64Q2 | 1.24 0.04 up from 2018 | 92 | 11% | $4,400 | ||
32Advances in Polymer TechnologyOAWiley · United States | 0.60Q2 | 1.67 0.74 up from 2018 | 445 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
33Macromolecular ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.59Q2 | 2.21 0.31 up from 2018 | 504 | 4% | $3,390 | ||
34Cellular PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.58Q2 | 2.07 1.04 up from 2018 | 43 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
35Iranian Polymer JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.57Q2 | 1.78 0.15 down from 2018 | 274 | 4% | $3,790 | ||
36Progress in Rubber Plastics and Recycling TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.56Q2 | 0.95 0.11 up from 2018 | 55 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
37Polymer BulletinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.55Q2 | 1.83 0.36 up from 2018 | 1,093 | 10% | $3,790 | ||
38Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 0.55Q2 | 1.56 0.14 up from 2018 | 792 | 15% | $4,270 | ||
39Textile Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.53Q2 | 1.43 0.06 up from 2018 | 832 | 10% | $4,150 | ||
40Journal of the Textile InstituteTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.53Q2 | 1.41 0.18 up from 2018 | 603 | 6% | — | ||
41International Journal of Plastics TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.52Q2 | 1.82 0.26 up from 2018 | 83 | 0% | — | ||
42PolímerosOAAssociação Brasileira de Polímeros · Brazil | 0.51Q3 | 1.51 0.34 up from 2018 | 189 | 100% | $152 | ||
43e-PolymersOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.49Q3 | 1.65 0.22 up from 2018 | 178 | 100% | $1,808 | ||
44Autex Research JournalOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.49Q3 | 1.31 0.02 down from 2018 | 149 | 100% | $1,695 | ||
45Research Journal of Textile and ApparelEmerald Publishing Limited | 0.48Q3 | 1.00 0.44 up from 2018 | 67 | 5% | — | ||
46Journal of Macromolecular Science Part ATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.47Q3 | 1.67 0.40 up from 2018 | 331 | 6% | — | ||
47Journal of Thermoplastic Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.46Q3 | 1.56 0.80 up from 2018 | 286 | 6% | $4,400 | ||
48High Performance PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.45Q3 | 1.39 0.17 up from 2018 | 365 | 4% | $4,150 | ||
49Rubber Chemistry and TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.89 0.18 down from 2018 | 161 | 9% | — | ||
50International Journal of Clothing Science and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 1.04 0.06 up from 2018 | 202 | 6% | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Polymers and Plastics highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry329
- Polymers and Plastics82
- Biomaterials31
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials14
- Ceramics and Composites7
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films4
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% 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 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 82
- Window papers (baseline)
- 44,515 -9.0% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.513 +1.0% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.