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RSC Applied Polymers is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
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ISSN 2755-371XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 120 / 256 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 70 / 141 | 50th | Q2 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 93 / 168 | 44th | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 181 / 327 | 44th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
RSC Applied Polymers is Q2 in Materials Science (miscellaneous) (rank 120 of 256), Q2 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 70 of 141) and Q3 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 93 of 168), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
RSC Applied Polymers is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.904, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
RSC Applied Polymers is published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Its ISSN is 2755-371X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
RSC Applied Polymers has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 4.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 234 Scopus journals in Materials Science (miscellaneous).
RSC Applied Polymers published 146 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (24.2%), India (16.3%) and China (10%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (4.5 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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