Polymer: impact and ranking
Polymer has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.68 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,994 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 342. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.68 #1,994 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 342 #343 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.6M #175 of 18,122
- Works
- 42k 38.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Polymer?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Polymer: 4.68, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Polymer #1,994 of 18,122 journals, in the top 11%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Polymer?
OpenAlex gives Polymer an h-index of 342: 342 of its papers have each been cited at least 342 times. That ranks #343 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Polymer publish?
OpenAlex records 42,017 works in Polymer from 1960 to 2026, cited 1,633,993 times in all, 38.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #175 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Polymer
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0032-3861
- In OpenAlex
- 1960 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Polymer as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,980.
- OpenAlex record
- S186054908
Journals ranked near Polymer
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Polymer on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,951 | European Journal of Pharmacology | 4.73 | 276 |
| 1,972 | Journal of Lipid Research | 4.70 | 324 |
| 1,993 | Journal of Virology | 4.68 | 421 |
| 2,045 | Aquaculture | 4.61 | 278 |
| 2,063 | Biological Conservation | 4.58 | 326 |
| 2,073 | PLoS Genetics | 4.57 | 341 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.