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Journal of Polymers and the Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 1566-2543Verify ISSN ↗1572-8919Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$4,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polymers and Plastics | 22 / 168 | 87th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 32 / 241 | 86th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 44 / 327 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.9.
Journal of Polymers and the Environment is Q1 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 22 of 168), Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 32 of 241) and Q1 in Materials Chemistry (rank 44 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Polymers and the Environment 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 10.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.834, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 118.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,090 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 Polymers and the Environment is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1566-2543 and its online ISSN is 1572-8919.
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 Polymers and the Environment has an h-index of 130 and a 2-year mean of 5.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 158 Scopus journals in Polymers and Plastics.
Journal of Polymers and the Environment published 236 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 400. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (19.5%), Iran (10.3%) and Türkiye (9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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