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Giant is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2666-5425Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polymers and Plastics | 25 / 168 | 85th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 66 / 402 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 55 / 327 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 24 / 141 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.5.
Giant is Q1 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 25 of 168), Q1 in Chemistry (all) (rank 66 of 402) and Q1 in Materials Chemistry (rank 55 of 327), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Giant 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 9.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.164, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,890 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.
Giant is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2666-5425.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Giant has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 10.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 158 Scopus journals in Polymers and Plastics.
Giant published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 113. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (67.2%), Iran (4.1%) and United States (3.9%). 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. 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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