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High Performance Polymers is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0954-0083Verify ISSN ↗1361-6412Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polymers and Plastics | 88 / 168 | 47th | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 173 / 327 | 47th | Q3 |
| Organic Chemistry | 116 / 215 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 4.
High Performance Polymers is Q3 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 88 of 168), Q3 in Materials Chemistry (rank 173 of 327) and Q3 in Organic Chemistry (rank 116 of 215), by CiteScore 2025.
High Performance 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, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.294, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 51.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 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.
High Performance Polymers is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0954-0083 and its online ISSN is 1361-6412.
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.
High Performance Polymers has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 1.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #105 of 158 Scopus journals in Polymers and Plastics.
High Performance Polymers published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 129. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (75%), India (15.1%) and Iran (2.1%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (2.3 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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