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Paper and Biomaterials is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3). Published by China Pulp and Paper Magazines Publisher (CPPMP).
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ISSN 2096-2355Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: China Pulp and Paper Magazines Publisher (CPPMP)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 75 / 181 | 58th | Q2 |
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 160 / 256 | 37th | Q3 |
| Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) | 70 / 106 | 34th | Q3 |
| Biomaterials | 113 / 146 | 22nd | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025 (also 2019–2023), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
Paper and Biomaterials is Q2 in Forestry (rank 75 of 181), Q3 in Materials Science (miscellaneous) (rank 160 of 256) and Q3 in Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 70 of 106), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Paper and Biomaterials is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2, 58th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.204, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 13.
Paper and Biomaterials is published by China Pulp and Paper Magazines Publisher (CPPMP). Its ISSN is 2096-2355.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Paper and Biomaterials has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #143 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
Paper and Biomaterials published 28 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 31. 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 25 research articles (2023), authors are most often from China (92%), South Korea (4%) and Canada (4%). 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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