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Polymer Degradation and Stability is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0141-3910Verify ISSN ↗1873-2321Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 28 / 446 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 32 / 408 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 18 / 168 | 89th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 40 / 327 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.8.
Polymer Degradation and Stability is Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 28 of 446), Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 32 of 408) and Q1 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 18 of 168), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Polymer Degradation and Stability 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 11.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.246, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 210.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,190 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.
Polymer Degradation and Stability is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0141-3910 and its online ISSN is 1873-2321.
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 Degradation and Stability has an h-index of 224 and a 2-year mean of 7.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Polymer Degradation and Stability published 650 papers in 2025. 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 84 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (69.2%), Japan (6.9%) and United States (5.4%). 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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