Polymers: impact and ranking
Polymers has a 2-year mean citedness of 7.76 in OpenAlex, which ranks #680 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 237. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.76 #680 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 237 #965 of 18,122
- Citations
- 818k #484 of 18,122
- Works
- 33k 24.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Polymers?
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 Polymers: 7.76, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Polymers #680 of 18,122 journals, in the top 4%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Polymers?
OpenAlex gives Polymers an h-index of 237: 237 of its papers have each been cited at least 237 times. That ranks #965 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Polymers publish?
OpenAlex records 32,801 works in Polymers from 1801 to 2026, cited 818,068 times in all, 24.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #484 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Polymers
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
- Country
- Switzerland
- ISSN-L
- 2073-4360
- In OpenAlex
- 1801 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Polymers as fully open access. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,258.
- OpenAlex record
- S123288148
Journals ranked near Polymers
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Polymers on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 670 | Expert Systems with Applications | 7.82 | 351 |
| 672 | Environmental Pollution | 7.80 | 385 |
| 678 | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 7.77 | 385 |
| 697 | Fuel | 7.70 | 312 |
| 704 | Journal of Hydrology | 7.63 | 360 |
| 728 | Management Science | 7.55 | 488 |
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.