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Carbohydrate Polymers is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 23.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0144-8617Verify ISSN ↗1879-1344Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$5,340 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Chemistry | 5 / 215 | 97th | Q1 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 8 / 168 | 95th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 17 / 327 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 23.1.
Carbohydrate Polymers is Q1 in Organic Chemistry (rank 5 of 215), Q1 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 8 of 168) and Q1 in Materials Chemistry (rank 17 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
Carbohydrate Polymers 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 23.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.012, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 315.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,340 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.
Carbohydrate Polymers is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0144-8617 and its online ISSN is 1879-1344.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Carbohydrate Polymers has an h-index of 344 and a 2-year mean of 12.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 23.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 210 Scopus journals in Organic Chemistry.
Carbohydrate Polymers published 1,421 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,794. 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 81 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (63%), United States (5.2%) and Finland (4.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 59 retracted papers are recorded (2.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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