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Plasma Processes and Polymers is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag.
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ISSN 1612-8850Verify ISSN ↗1612-8869Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$4,830 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 121 / 446 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 64 / 168 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.8.
Plasma Processes and Polymers is Q2 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 121 of 446) and Q2 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 64 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Plasma Processes and 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.541, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 98.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,830 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.
Plasma Processes and Polymers is published by Wiley-VCH Verlag. Its print ISSN is 1612-8850 and its online ISSN is 1612-8869.
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.
Plasma Processes and Polymers has an h-index of 103 and a 2-year mean of 2.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #168 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Plasma Processes and Polymers published 156 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 188. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (37.1%), South Korea (7.7%) and France (5.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). 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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