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Polymer (Korea) is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Polymer Society of Korea.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0379-153XVerify ISSN ↗2234-8077Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Polymer Society of Korea
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 207 / 270 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 133 / 168 | 21st | Q4 |
| Materials Chemistry | 261 / 327 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.3.
Polymer (Korea) is Q4 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 207 of 270), Q4 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 133 of 168) and Q4 in Materials Chemistry (rank 261 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
Polymer (Korea) 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 23rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.197, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 22.
Polymer (Korea) is published by Polymer Society of Korea. Its print ISSN is 0379-153X and its online ISSN is 2234-8077.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Polymer (Korea) has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #203 of 246 Scopus journals in Chemical Engineering (all).
Polymer (Korea) published 97 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 264. 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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