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SPE Polymers is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 49 / 300 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 42 / 168 | 75th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 67 / 256 | 74th | Q2 |
| Biomaterials | 48 / 146 | 67th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.8.
SPE Polymers is Q1 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 49 of 300), Q1 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 42 of 168) and Q2 in Materials Science (miscellaneous) (rank 67 of 256), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
SPE 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 7.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.764, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 19.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,310 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.
SPE Polymers is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2690-3857.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
SPE Polymers has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 9.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 268 Scopus journals in Engineering (miscellaneous).
SPE Polymers published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Bangladesh (25.7%), United States (13.7%) and Iran (11.1%).
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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