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Polymer Testing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0142-9418Verify ISSN ↗1873-2348Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Chemistry | 17 / 215 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 20 / 168 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present (also 1980–1988), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.1.
Polymer Testing is Q1 in Organic Chemistry (rank 17 of 215) and Q1 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 20 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Polymer Testing 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 11.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.001, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 139.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,370 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 Testing is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0142-9418 and its online ISSN is 1873-2348.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Polymer Testing has an h-index of 153 and a 2-year mean of 6.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #21 of 210 Scopus journals in Organic Chemistry.
Polymer Testing published 333 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 626. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (31.9%), South Korea (11.7%) and Germany (6.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). 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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