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Polymer Engineering and Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0032-3888Verify ISSN ↗1548-2634Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$4,270 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (all) | 70 / 351 | 80th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 131 / 402 | 67th | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 125 / 327 | 61st | Q2 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 67 / 168 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1961–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Polymer Engineering and Science is Q1 in Engineering (all) (rank 70 of 351), Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 131 of 402) and Q2 in Materials Chemistry (rank 125 of 327), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Polymer Engineering and Science 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.564, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 135.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,270 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 Engineering and Science is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0032-3888 and its online ISSN is 1548-2634.
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 Engineering and Science has an h-index of 183 and a 2-year mean of 3.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 299 Scopus journals in Engineering (all).
Polymer Engineering and Science published 596 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (50%), India (9.1%) and Türkiye (5.6%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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