Journal profile
Polymers
Polymers is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute under ISSN 2073-4360. It holds an h-index of 235 across 32,580 indexed works, with a two-year mean citedness of 7.4, and is open access. Its main subject areas are biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies, Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications.
Below: the full publication record, and one real article from the journal formatted in IEEE, APA, and BibTeX so you can match field order against a source you can check.
Publication record and impact metrics
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
|---|---|
| ISSN-L | 2073-4360 |
| Indexed works | 32,580 |
| Total citations | 807,647 |
| h-index | 235 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 7.4 |
| Open access | Open access |
| Main topics | biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties · Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies · Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications · Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites · Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials |
Publication figures come from this journal's OpenAlex record, released under CC0, and are a dated snapshot rather than a live count. Check the publisher for current scope and submission requirements.
A worked example from this journal
The source
Poly Lactic-co-Glycolic Acid (PLGA) as Biodegradable Controlled Drug Delivery Carrier
- Authors
- Hirenkumar K. Makadia, Steven J. Siegel
- Year
- 2011
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1377-1397
IEEE
H. K. Makadia, S. J. Siegel "Poly Lactic-co-Glycolic Acid (PLGA) as Biodegradable Controlled Drug Delivery Carrier," Polymers, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1377-1397, 2011, doi: 10.3390/polym3031377.
IEEE prints author initials before the surname and abbreviates the periodical title. Check the abbreviation for Polymers against your target publication's reference list before submitting.
APA
Makadia, H. K., & Siegel, S. J. (2011). Poly Lactic-co-Glycolic Acid (PLGA) as Biodegradable Controlled Drug Delivery Carrier. Polymers, 3(3), 1377-1397. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym3031377
APA puts the year directly after the authors, keeps the full journal title in italics, and renders the DOI as a URL.
BibTeX
@article{makadia2011,
author = {Hirenkumar K. Makadia and Steven J. Siegel},
title = {Poly Lactic-co-Glycolic Acid (PLGA) as Biodegradable Controlled Drug Delivery Carrier},
journal = {Polymers},
volume = {3},
number = {3},
pages = {1377--1397},
year = {2011},
issn = {2073-4360},
doi = {10.3390/polym3031377}
}The citation key is the first author's surname and the year. Keep it stable once it appears in a draft, because renaming it breaks every cite that used it.
What to verify before you submit
- The volume and page range. Polymers records 32,580 works, and articles published online first can carry a different volume from the final issue. Cite the version you read.
- The abbreviated title. IEEE style uses standard periodical abbreviations, and registry metadata almost always returns the full name instead.
- Author name order. Registry records store full given names; IEEE and APA both want initials, formatted differently from each other.
- Whether the article is open access. This journal is open access, which affects whether a reader can reach the version you cited.
- That the source supports your claim. A correctly formatted reference says nothing about whether the passage backs the sentence citing it.
How this journal sits in the record
Polymers carries an h-index of 235, which is above 6% of the journals covered here, and its articles have accumulated 807,647 citations across 32,580 indexed works. Its two-year mean citedness is 7.4.
12 of the journals covered here are published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. Reference style is set per title rather than per publisher, so do not carry a format across from a sibling journal without checking.
These are indexing figures describing how often work in this venue is cited. They say nothing about whether a particular article is sound, and they are not a substitute for reading it.
Questions about Polymers
What is the ISSN of Polymers?
The linking ISSN is 2073-4360. Use it in a BibTeX issn field so the entry stays resolvable.
Who publishes Polymers?
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute publishes it. 12 journals covered here come from the same publisher, and they do not all share one reference style, so check the requirements for this title rather than the publisher.
Is Polymers open access?
OpenAlex records it as open access, though it is not listed in DOAJ. An open-access article is reachable by any reader, so a reviewer can check the passage you cited without a subscription.
How do I cite an article from Polymers in LaTeX?
Use the BibTeX entry above as the pattern. The entry type is article, the journal field holds the full title, and the citation key makadia2011 follows the first author's surname and the year. Brace any acronym in the title so your bibliography style does not lowercase it.
Does Polymers use page numbers or article numbers?
The example article runs from page 1377 to 1397, so this journal used page ranges at least for that volume. Newer issues in many journals switched to article numbers, so check the version you are citing.
How influential is Polymers?
Its h-index is 235, above 6% of the journals covered here, and its articles have been cited 807,647 times in total. Its two-year mean citedness is 7.4. These are indexing figures, not a judgement of whether a specific article is sound.
Does Polymers have a Journal Impact Factor?
Not one shown here. The Journal Impact Factor is Clarivate's metric, published in Journal Citation Reports and readable only with a JCR subscription, so this page does not restate it. The figures above come from OpenAlex: an h-index of 235 and a two-year mean citedness of 7.4 across 32,580 indexed works, captured on 2026-09-18. Mean citedness averages citations per work over a two-year window, which makes it closer in construction to CiteScore than to the Impact Factor. The three are not interchangeable, so quote whichever one your target venue actually asks for.