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Cambridge Prisms: Plastics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 137 / 491 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 127 / 307 | 58th | Q2 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 83 / 151 | 45th | Q3 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 90 / 157 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.2.
Cambridge Prisms: Plastics is Q2 in Ecology (rank 137 of 491), Q2 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 127 of 307) and Q3 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 83 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Cambridge Prisms: Plastics is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.004, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 13.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,893 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Cambridge Prisms: Plastics is published by Cambridge University Press. Its ISSN is 2755-094X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cambridge Prisms: Plastics has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 5.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Cambridge Prisms: Plastics published 44 papers in 2025. 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.
In its latest 94 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (17.5%), United States (10.6%) and Canada (9.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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