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Polymers from Renewable Resources is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.9). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by RAPRA Technology Ltd..
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ISSN 2041-2479Verify ISSN ↗2045-1377Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: RAPRA Technology Ltd.
Cost to publish: About US$3,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polymers and Plastics | 62 / 168 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.9.
Polymers from Renewable Resources is Q2 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 62 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Polymers from Renewable Resources is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q2, 63rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.559, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 21.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,900 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.
Polymers from Renewable Resources is published by RAPRA Technology Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2041-2479 and its online ISSN is 2045-1377.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Polymers from Renewable Resources has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 3.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #64 of 158 Scopus journals in Polymers and Plastics.
Polymers from Renewable Resources published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 23. 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 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (26.6%), Iran (9.5%) and Indonesia (7.2%).
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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