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Plastics Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0). Published by Gardner Business Media Inc..
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ISSN 0032-1257Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Gardner Business Media Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 401 / 425 | 5th | Q4 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 161 / 168 | 4th | Q4 |
| Materials Chemistry | 324 / 327 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1996–1997, 1969–1988), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
Plastics Technology is Q4 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 401 of 425), Q4 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 161 of 168) and Q4 in Materials Chemistry (rank 324 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
Plastics Technology 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 0, quartile Q4, 5th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.100, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 10.
Plastics Technology is published by Gardner Business Media Inc. Its ISSN is 0032-1257.
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.
Plastics Technology has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #325 of 359 Scopus journals in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
Plastics Technology published 16 papers in 2019; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 29. 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.
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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