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Rubber Chemistry and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society.
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ISSN 0035-9475Verify ISSN ↗1943-4804Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polymers and Plastics | 96 / 168 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 192 / 327 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2025 (also 1970–1994), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.4.
Rubber Chemistry and Technology is Q3 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 96 of 168) and Q3 in Materials Chemistry (rank 192 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
Rubber Chemistry and Technology 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.242, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 81.
Rubber Chemistry and Technology is published by Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society. Its print ISSN is 0035-9475 and its online ISSN is 1943-4804.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Rubber Chemistry and Technology has an h-index of 124 and a 2-year mean of 1.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #113 of 158 Scopus journals in Polymers and Plastics.
Rubber Chemistry and Technology published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 59. 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 (23.9%), United States (21.7%) and India (9.4%).
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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