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Acta Polymerica Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS SCIE. Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1000-3304Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 170 / 270 | 37th | Q3 |
| Chemistry (all) | 262 / 402 | 34th | Q3 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 114 / 168 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Acta Polymerica Sinica is Q3 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 170 of 270), Q3 in Chemistry (all) (rank 262 of 402) and Q3 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 114 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Polymerica Sinica is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.336, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 31.
Acta Polymerica Sinica is published by Science Press. Its ISSN is 1000-3304.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Polymerica Sinica has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #227 of 246 Scopus journals in Chemical Engineering (all).
Acta Polymerica Sinica published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2010 with 531. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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