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Progress in Polymer Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 46.6), 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 0079-6700Verify ISSN ↗1873-1619Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$6,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Chemistry | 1 / 215 | 99th | Q1 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 1 / 168 | 99th | Q1 |
| Ceramics and Composites | 1 / 133 | 99th | Q1 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 1 / 63 | 99th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 4 / 327 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present (also 1980–1986, 1977–1978, 1975, 1970–1971, 1967), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 46.6.
Progress in Polymer Science is Q1 in Organic Chemistry (rank 1 of 215), Q1 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 1 of 168) and Q1 in Ceramics and Composites (rank 1 of 133), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Progress in Polymer 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 46.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 6.250, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 358.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$6,500 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.
Progress in Polymer Science is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0079-6700 and its online ISSN is 1873-1619.
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.
Progress in Polymer Science has an h-index of 379 and a 2-year mean of 24.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 46.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 210 Scopus journals in Organic Chemistry.
Progress in Polymer Science published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 80. 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 92 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (34.8%), United States (11.5%) and South Korea (8.7%).
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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