Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Polymers and Plastics journal rankings 2023
84 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Polymers and Plastics has 84 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.59, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 0.85. The top three are Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research, Textiles, and Progress in Organic Coatings.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
84 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 2.93Q1 | 10.11 1.04 down from 2022 | 87 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
2TextilesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.51Q1 | 5.46 1.85 up from 2022 | 72 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
3Progress in Organic CoatingsElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.51Q1 | 6.69 0.28 up from 2022 | 1,533 | 15% | $4,350 | ||
4Materials Circular EconomySpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 1.49Q1 | 4.54 1.61 down from 2022 | 69 | 41% | $3,090 | ||
5Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 6.59 0.61 up from 2022 | 911 | 31% | $4,190 | ||
6Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 5.15 0.17 down from 2022 | 1,312 | 100% | $3,370 | ||
7European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 5.81 0.10 down from 2022 | 1,851 | 21% | $4,330 | ||
8FibersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.31Q1 | 5.07 0.51 up from 2022 | 269 | 100% | $2,413 | ||
9Reactive and Functional PolymersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.19Q1 | 4.85 0.12 down from 2022 | 749 | 16% | $3,920 | ||
10MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.16Q1 | 5.41 0.21 down from 2022 | 3,113 | 30% | $4,500 | ||
11ACS Applied Polymer MaterialsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.15Q1 | 4.77 0.35 down from 2022 | 2,219 | 18% | $4,500 | ||
12Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 1.03Q1 | 5.27 0.14 down from 2022 | 1,677 | 42% | $4,480 | ||
13Journal of Composites ScienceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.03Q1 | 3.72 0.26 down from 2022 | 911 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
14PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.97Q1 | 4.01 0.25 down from 2022 | 2,923 | 24% | $3,980 | ||
15International Journal of Polymer ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.96Q1 | 4.10 0.39 up from 2022 | 205 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
16Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 0.96Q1 | 3.83 0.22 down from 2022 | 1,207 | 56% | $4,550 | ||
17e-PolymersOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.93Q1 | 3.60 0.57 down from 2022 | 245 | 100% | $1,808 | ||
18Macromolecular Materials and EngineeringOAWiley · Germany | 0.86Q1 | 3.90 0.28 up from 2022 | 947 | 100% | $3,150 | ||
19Journal of Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.86Q1 | 3.99 0.60 up from 2022 | 868 | 65% | $4,380 | ||
20Journal of Natural FibersOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.85Q1 | 2.85 0.88 down from 2022 | 1,375 | 100% | $2,070 | ||
21Chinese Journal of Polymer ScienceSpringer Nature · United States | 0.85Q1 | 3.78 0.62 down from 2022 | 513 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
22SPE PolymersOAWiley · United States | 0.83Q2 | 4.13 1.84 up from 2022 | 63 | 100% | $2,310 | ||
23Functional Composites and StructuresIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 4.09 1.04 up from 2022 | 111 | 72% | $3,325 | ||
24Polymers for Advanced TechnologiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 3.34 0.25 down from 2022 | 1,102 | 38% | $4,800 | ||
25Polymer BulletinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.79Q2 | 3.32 0.15 up from 2022 | 1,547 | 13% | $3,790 | ||
26Journal of Thermoplastic Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.78Q2 | 3.47 0.66 up from 2022 | 307 | 21% | $4,400 | ||
27Journal of Vinyl and Additive TechnologyWiley · United States | 0.77Q2 | 3.91 0.50 up from 2022 | 200 | 46% | $3,800 | ||
28Advances in Polymer TechnologyOAWiley · United States | 0.76Q2 | 2.27 1.00 down from 2022 | 247 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
29Polymer InternationalWiley · United States | 0.76Q2 | 3.13 0.09 down from 2022 | 479 | 48% | $3,890 | ||
30Journal of Engineered Fibers and FabricsOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 2.36 0.47 down from 2022 | 292 | 100% | $2,100 | ||
31Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 0.74Q2 | 3.37 0.14 down from 2022 | 882 | 49% | $4,270 | ||
32Journal of Industrial TextilesOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.74Q2 | 2.24 0.72 down from 2022 | 584 | 100% | — | ||
33Polymers and Polymer CompositesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 2.32no change | 451 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
34Journal of Polymer ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 0.70Q2 | 2.81 0.12 down from 2022 | 1,433 | 10% | $3,890 | ||
35Polymer JournalSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.69Q2 | 2.55 0.48 down from 2022 | 443 | 39% | $4,390 | ||
36Journal of Applied Polymer ScienceWiley · United States | 0.67Q2 | 2.83 0.18 down from 2022 | 4,289 | 48% | $4,140 | ||
37Journal of Plastic Film & SheetingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.66Q2 | 1.76 1.30 down from 2022 | 74 | 38% | $4,400 | ||
38eXPRESS Polymer LettersOABudapest University of Technology and Economics · Hungary | 0.65Q2 | 2.43 0.77 down from 2022 | 283 | 100% | — | ||
39Iranian Polymer JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.64Q2 | 2.59 0.69 down from 2022 | 348 | 6% | $3,790 | ||
40Fibers and PolymersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.60Q2 | 2.55 0.17 down from 2022 | 1,032 | 10% | $2,490 | ||
41Research Journal of Textile and ApparelEmerald Publishing Limited | 0.60Q2 | 2.08 0.18 up from 2022 | 146 | 7% | — | ||
42Macromolecular ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.59Q2 | 2.78 0.19 up from 2022 | 312 | 11% | $3,390 | ||
43Progress in Rubber Plastics and Recycling TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 1.96 0.52 down from 2022 | 64 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
44Journal of Cellular PlasticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 2.78 0.40 up from 2022 | 96 | 29% | $4,400 | ||
45Plastics Rubber and Composites Macromolecular EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 2.31 0.25 up from 2022 | 155 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
46Polymer-Plastics Technology and MaterialsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.54Q3 | 2.45 0.09 up from 2022 | 412 | 7% | — | ||
47Textile Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 1.89 0.45 down from 2022 | 893 | 32% | $4,150 | ||
48International Journal of Polymer Analysis and CharacterizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.53Q3 | 1.91 0.20 down from 2022 | 159 | 15% | — | ||
49High Performance PolymersSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 1.90 0.01 down from 2022 | 317 | 29% | $4,150 | ||
50Designed Monomers & PolymersOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.52Q3 | 1.97 0.06 up from 2022 | 85 | 100% | $1,533 |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Polymers and Plastics highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry362
- Polymers and Plastics84
- Biomaterials35
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials16
- Ceramics and Composites5
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films4
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
10 additional Polymers and Plastics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 84
- Window papers (baseline)
- 50,050 +8.1% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.589 +11.4% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.