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Journal of Polymer Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 0334-6447Verify ISSN ↗2191-0340Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 131 / 270 | 51st | Q2 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 90 / 168 | 46th | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 177 / 327 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present (also 1981–1988), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Journal of Polymer Engineering is Q2 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 131 of 270), Q3 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 90 of 168) and Q3 in Materials Chemistry (rank 177 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Polymer Engineering 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.352, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 42.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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 Polymer Engineering is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0334-6447 and its online ISSN is 2191-0340.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Polymer Engineering has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 1.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #125 of 246 Scopus journals in Chemical Engineering (all).
Journal of Polymer Engineering published 83 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 110. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (43.6%), India (14%) and United States (4.8%).
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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