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Fibers and Polymers is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Korean Fiber Society.
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ISSN 1229-9197Verify ISSN ↗1875-0052Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Fiber Society
Cost to publish: About US$2,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemistry (all) | 169 / 402 | 58th | Q2 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 114 / 270 | 57th | Q2 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 81 / 168 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
Fibers and Polymers is Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 169 of 402), Q2 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 114 of 270) and Q2 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 81 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Fibers and 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.460, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 83.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,490 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.
Fibers and Polymers is published by Korean Fiber Society. Its print ISSN is 1229-9197 and its online ISSN is 1875-0052.
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.
Fibers and Polymers has an h-index of 88 and a 2-year mean of 3.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #119 of 382 Scopus journals in Chemistry (all).
Fibers and Polymers published 474 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (36.1%), India (13.9%) and South Korea (12.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (1.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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