Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Polymers and Plastics journal rankings 2021
83 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Polymers and Plastics has 83 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2020 to 0.60, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.81. The top three are Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research, Polymer Testing, and Progress in Organic Coatings.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
83 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 2.81Q1 | 11.63 4.10 up from 2020 | 61 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
2Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 5.12 0.74 up from 2020 | 1,582 | 100% | $3,370 | ||
3Progress in Organic CoatingsElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.41Q1 | 5.97 0.57 up from 2020 | 1,484 | 15% | $4,350 | ||
4FibersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.36Q1 | 4.66 0.64 up from 2020 | 281 | 100% | $2,413 | ||
5MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.34Q1 | 5.96 0.10 down from 2020 | 3,072 | 24% | $4,500 | ||
6Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 5.17 0.19 up from 2020 | 947 | 30% | $4,190 | ||
7European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 5.40 0.78 up from 2020 | 1,845 | 19% | $4,330 | ||
8Journal of Composites ScienceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.18Q1 | 4.16 0.64 up from 2020 | 379 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
9ACS Applied Polymer MaterialsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.18Q1 | 4.73 0.47 up from 2020 | 1,077 | 22% | $4,500 | ||
10Reactive and Functional PolymersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.12Q1 | 5.05 1.08 up from 2020 | 701 | 15% | $3,920 | ||
11Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.08Q1 | 4.12 0.79 down from 2020 | 1,033 | 31% | $4,550 | ||
12Functional Composites and StructuresIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.04Q1 | 4.24 0.15 up from 2020 | 66 | 35% | $3,325 | ||
13PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.01Q1 | 3.98 0.08 down from 2020 | 2,892 | 20% | $3,980 | ||
14eXPRESS Polymer LettersOABudapest University of Technology and Economics · Hungary | 1.00Q1 | 3.58 0.15 down from 2020 | 291 | 100% | — | ||
15Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 0.92Q1 | 4.00 0.81 up from 2020 | 1,194 | 9% | $4,480 | ||
16International Journal of Polymer ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.91Q1 | 3.26 0.53 up from 2020 | 328 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
17Macromolecular Materials and EngineeringOAWiley · Germany | 0.88Q1 | 3.75no change | 703 | 27% | $3,150 | ||
18Research Journal of Textile and ApparelEmerald Publishing Limited | 0.87Q1 | 1.90 0.43 down from 2020 | 80 | 5% | — | ||
19Polymers for Advanced TechnologiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.86Q1 | 3.41 0.07 up from 2020 | 931 | 10% | $4,800 | ||
20Designed Monomers & PolymersOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.83Q1 | 3.70 0.65 up from 2020 | 58 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
21Chinese Journal of Polymer ScienceSpringer Nature · United States | 0.81Q1 | 3.80 0.54 up from 2020 | 450 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
22Advances in Polymer TechnologyOAWiley · United States | 0.78Q2 | 2.90 0.70 up from 2020 | 360 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
23Journal of Thermoplastic Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.77Q2 | 2.82 0.22 up from 2020 | 416 | 9% | $4,400 | ||
24Journal of Polymer ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 0.77Q2 | 3.40 0.28 up from 2020 | 926 | 10% | $3,890 | ||
25Journal of Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.76Q2 | 2.91 0.99 up from 2020 | 340 | 32% | $4,380 | ||
26Polymer InternationalWiley · United States | 0.75Q2 | 3.16 0.29 up from 2020 | 583 | 17% | $3,890 | ||
27Journal of Industrial TextilesOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.74Q2 | 2.40 0.05 down from 2020 | 438 | 99% | — | ||
28Journal of Applied Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.74Q2 | 3.10 0.22 up from 2020 | 3,881 | 13% | $4,140 | ||
29Journal of Natural FibersOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.73Q2 | 3.23 0.26 up from 2020 | 773 | 4% | $2,070 | ||
30Journal of Plastic Film & SheetingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.73Q2 | 3.12 0.91 up from 2020 | 57 | 14% | $4,400 | ||
31Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer PhysicsWiley · United States | 0.72Q2 | 2.79 0.05 up from 2020 | 251 | — | $3,200 | ||
32e-PolymersOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.71Q2 | 3.30 1.23 up from 2020 | 179 | 100% | $1,808 | ||
33Polymer JournalSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.68Q2 | 3.19 0.73 up from 2020 | 443 | 16% | $4,390 | ||
34Polymer BulletinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.68Q2 | 2.93 0.47 up from 2020 | 1,210 | 5% | $3,790 | ||
35Progress in Rubber Plastics and Recycling TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.67Q2 | 2.62 1.67 up from 2020 | 56 | 10% | $4,150 | ||
36Fibers and PolymersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.64Q2 | 2.62 0.24 up from 2020 | 912 | 4% | $2,490 | ||
37Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 0.64Q2 | 2.66 0.27 up from 2020 | 780 | 12% | $4,270 | ||
38International Journal of Plastics TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.64Q2 | 3.38 1.16 up from 2020 | 52 | — | — | ||
39Iranian Polymer JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.62Q2 | 2.87 0.82 up from 2020 | 288 | 6% | $3,790 | ||
40Textile Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.61Q2 | 2.46 0.74 up from 2020 | 727 | 13% | $4,150 | ||
41International Journal of Polymer Analysis and CharacterizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.61Q2 | 2.11 0.71 down from 2020 | 179 | 16% | — | ||
42Polymer-Plastics Technology and MaterialsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.60Q2 | 2.67 0.36 up from 2020 | 364 | 0% | — | ||
43Journal of Engineered Fibers and FabricsOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 2.18 0.72 up from 2020 | 287 | 100% | $2,100 | ||
44Journal of Vinyl and Additive TechnologyWiley · United States | 0.57Q3 | 2.47 0.70 up from 2020 | 179 | 10% | $3,800 | ||
45Journal of Elastomers & PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 1.63 0.07 down from 2020 | 139 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
46Journal of Macromolecular Science Part ATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.57Q3 | 2.55 0.75 up from 2020 | 319 | 10% | — | ||
47Journal of the Textile InstituteTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.56Q3 | 2.02 0.32 up from 2020 | 667 | 8% | — | ||
48Autex Research JournalOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.54Q3 | 1.52 0.31 up from 2020 | 211 | 100% | $1,695 | ||
49PolímerosOAAssociação Brasileira de Polímeros · Brazil | 0.54Q3 | 1.91 0.17 down from 2020 | 170 | 100% | $152 | ||
50PolimeryOAIndustrial Chemistry Research Institute · Poland | 0.54Q3 | 2.23 0.56 up from 2020 | 231 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Polymers and Plastics highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry334
- Polymers and Plastics83
- Biomaterials32
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials14
- Ceramics and Composites6
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films4
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% 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 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 83
- Window papers (baseline)
- 48,422 +7.6% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.600 +17.4% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.