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Polymer Chemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
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ISSN 1759-9954Verify ISSN ↗1759-9962Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Chemistry | 43 / 215 | 80th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry | 107 / 448 | 76th | Q1 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 47 / 168 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Bioengineering | 61 / 168 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.5.
Polymer Chemistry is Q1 in Organic Chemistry (rank 43 of 215), Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 107 of 448) and Q2 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 47 of 168), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Polymer Chemistry 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 7.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.726, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 161.
Polymer Chemistry is published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Its print ISSN is 1759-9954 and its online ISSN is 1759-9962.
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.
Polymer Chemistry has an h-index of 169 and a 2-year mean of 3.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 210 Scopus journals in Organic Chemistry.
Polymer Chemistry published 573 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,240. 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 (39.8%), Japan (13.5%) and United States (11.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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