About this journal
Aims and scope
Designed Monomers and Polymers is a fully open access journal publishing original research on all areas of macromolecular design and applications.
Designed Monomers and Polymers aims to bridge the gap between monomer synthesis and the design of new polymers, providing an international forum for monomers research and the art and science of macromolecular design.
Emphasis is placed on the preparations of new monomers, including characterization and applications. The journal also includes macromolecular design of polymeric materials (such as polymeric biomaterials, biomedical polymers, etc.) with medical applications.
Submissions are invited in the areas including, but not limited to:
- Macromolecular science, initiators, macroinitiators for macromolecular design
- Kinetics and mechanism aspects of polymerization
- New methods of synthesis of known monomers
- New monomers (must show evidence for polymerization, e.g. polycondensation, sequential combination, oxidative coupling, radiation, plasma polymerization)
- Functional prepolymers of various architectures such as hyperbranched polymers, telechelic polymers, macromonomers, or dendrimers
- New polymeric materials with biomedical applications
The journal accepts original research articles and short topical reviews. Designed Monomers and Polymers operates a single anonymized peer review policy.
All articles are made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 179K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.8 (2023) Impact Factor
- 2.3 (2023) 5 year IF
- 3.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- 0.429 (2023) SNIP
- 0.329 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 43 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 53% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor in Chief
Munmaya Mishra - ENCAPCR LLC, Richmond, VA, USA
[email protected]
Board Members
Mehmet Atilla Tasdelen - Yalova University, Turkey
Hans Boerner - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Stephane Carlotti - Université de Bordeaux, France
Vera Cimrova - Akademie ved Ceské republiky, Czech Republic
Filip Du Prez - Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Daniel Egbe - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
Giancarlo Galli - Università di Pisa, Italy
Marco Gauthier - University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Richard Hoogenboom - Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Marek Kowalczuk - University of Wolverhampton, UK
Robert Liska - Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Jean-Francois Lutz - University of Strasbourg, France
Y. Ma - Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Jose Pomposo - University of the Basque Country, Spain
Ulrich S. Schubert - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Atsushi Sudo - Kindai University, Japan
Constantinos Tsitsilianis - University of Patras, Greece
Ümit Tunca - Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Bridgette Voit - Leibniz-Institut-Für-Polymer-Forschung Dresden, Germany
Jingbo Zhao - Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Jinlong Zhang - College of Materials Science and Engineering, Yanshan University, China
Abstracting and indexing
Designed Monomers and Polymers is abstracted and indexed in:
Academic KeysCASSI SM
Clarivate Analytics: Current Contents® / Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
Clarivate Analytics: Science Citation Index Expanded™
Clarivate Analytics: SciSearch®
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Ei Compendex®
Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
INSPEC®
Polymer Library (formerly RAPRA Abstracts)
Science & Technology Collection
SCOPUS® – click here for current CiteScore
Textile Technology Index™
Open access
Designed Monomers and Polymers is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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