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Journal of Cellular Plastics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.2), 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 0021-955XVerify ISSN ↗1530-7999Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemistry (all) | 118 / 402 | 70th | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 111 / 327 | 66th | Q2 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 59 / 168 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.2.
Journal of Cellular Plastics is Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 118 of 402), Q2 in Materials Chemistry (rank 111 of 327) and Q2 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 59 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cellular Plastics 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.537, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 52.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,400 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.
Journal of Cellular Plastics is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0021-955X and its online ISSN is 1530-7999.
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.
Journal of Cellular Plastics has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 1.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #217 of 382 Scopus journals in Chemistry (all).
Journal of Cellular Plastics published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 50. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (23.2%), India (12.4%) and Germany (11.3%).
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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