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Advances in Polymer Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2). Published by Springer New York.
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ISSN 0065-3195Verify ISSN ↗1436-5030Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 176 / 270 | 35th | Q3 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 120 / 168 | 28th | Q3 |
| Organic Chemistry | 173 / 215 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–2025 (also 1986–1987, 1976–1982, 1969, 1963–1964, 1958–1961), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Advances in Polymer Science is Q3 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 176 of 270), Q3 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 120 of 168) and Q4 in Organic Chemistry (rank 173 of 215), by CiteScore 2025.
Advances in Polymer Science is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3, 35th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Advances in Polymer Science is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 0065-3195 and its online ISSN is 1436-5030.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Advances in Polymer Science has an h-index of 169 and a 2-year mean of 1.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #133 of 246 Scopus journals in Chemical Engineering (all).
Advances in Polymer Science published 3 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 48. 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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