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RSC Polymer Chemistry Series is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2044-0790Verify ISSN ↗2044-0804Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polymers and Plastics | 157 / 168 | 6th | Q4 |
| Biomaterials | 144 / 146 | 1st | Q4 |
| Biotechnology | 320 / 325 | 1st | Q4 |
| Bioengineering | 167 / 168 | 0th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024 (also 2014–2021, 2011–2012), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
RSC Polymer Chemistry Series is Q4 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 157 of 168), Q4 in Biomaterials (rank 144 of 146) and Q4 in Biotechnology (rank 320 of 325), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
RSC Polymer Chemistry Series 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 6th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
RSC Polymer Chemistry Series is published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Its print ISSN is 2044-0790 and its online ISSN is 2044-0804.
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.
RSC Polymer Chemistry Series has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #140 of 158 Scopus journals in Polymers and Plastics.
RSC Polymer Chemistry Series published 3 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 119. 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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