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Rubber World is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by Lippincott and Peto Inc..
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ISSN 0035-9572Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott and Peto Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polymers and Plastics | 159 / 168 | 5th | Q4 |
| Materials Chemistry | 321 / 327 | 1st | 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 1969–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Rubber World is Q4 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 159 of 168) and Q4 in Materials Chemistry (rank 321 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
Rubber World 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, 5th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.158, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
Rubber World is published by Lippincott and Peto Inc. Its ISSN is 0035-9572.
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.
Rubber World has an h-index of 5 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.
Rubber World published 8 papers in 2017. 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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