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Plastics, Rubber and Composites is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.6), 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 1465-8011Verify ISSN ↗1743-2898Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 108 / 270 | 60th | Q2 |
| Ceramics and Composites | 59 / 133 | 56th | Q2 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 78 / 168 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 152 / 327 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.6.
Plastics, Rubber and Composites is Q2 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 108 of 270), Q2 in Ceramics and Composites (rank 59 of 133) and Q2 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 78 of 168), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Plastics, Rubber and Composites 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.316, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 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.
Plastics, Rubber and Composites is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1465-8011 and its online ISSN is 1743-2898.
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.
Plastics, Rubber and Composites has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 2.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #120 of 246 Scopus journals in Chemical Engineering (all).
Plastics, Rubber and Composites published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 67. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (27.9%), India (15.4%) and Türkiye (14.4%).
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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