Polymer Chemistry
The journal for the most innovative and exciting polymer chemistry, with an emphasis on the synthesis and properties of polymers.
Editor-in-Chief: Christine Luscombe
Open Access: Hybrid
Journal Impact factor
3.9 (2024)
First decision time (all)
11 days
First decision time (peer reviewed)
27 days
Scope
Polymer Chemistry welcomes submissions in all areas of polymer science that have a strong focus on macromolecular chemistry. Manuscripts may cover a broad range of fields, yet no direct application focus is required.
Manuscripts with a strong application focus might be more suitable for RSC Applied Polymers.
Readership
Polymer chemists in industry and academia, plus materials scientists and bioscientists.
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Steven Armes
University of Sheffield
Remzi Becer
University of Warwick
Matthew Becker
Duke University
Erik Berda
University of New Hampshire
Kerstin Blank
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Eva Blasco
Heidelberg University
James Blinco
Queensland University of Technology
Chris Bowman
University of Colorado
Cyrille Boyer
University of New South Wales
Antoine Buchard
University of York
Neil Cameron
Monash University
Luis Campos
Columbia University
Changle Chen
University of Science & Technology of China
Mao Chen
Fudan University
Xuesi Chen
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yoshiki Chujo
Kyoto University
Franck D'Agosto
CNRS-University of Lyon
Priyadarsi De
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata
Guillaume Delaittre
University of Wuppertal
Dagmar D'hooge
Ghent University
Elizabeth Elacqua
Pennsylvania State University
Brett P Fors
Cornell University
Theoni Georgiou
Imperial College London
Didier Gigmes
Aix-Marseilles Université
Atsushi Goto
Nanyang Technological University
Sophie Guillaume
Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes
Dave Haddleton
University of Warwick
Nikos Hadjichristidis
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Yanchun Han
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Simon Harrisson
CNRS
Eva Marie Harth
University of Houston
Laura Hartmann
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Fiona Hatton
Loughborough University
Andrew B Holmes
University of Melbourne
Miao Hong
Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Richard Hoogenboom
Ghent University
Steve Howdle
University of Nottingham
Jeremiah A Johnson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Toyoji Kakuchi
Changchun University of Science and Technology
Julia Kalow
Northwestern University
Masami Kamigaito
Nagoya University
Justin Kennemur
Florida State University
Christopher Kloxin
University of Delaware
Jacques Lalevée
Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse
Muriel Lansalot
Université Lyon
Sebastien Lecommandoux
ENSCPB
Rachel A. Letteri
University of Virginia
Guey-Sheng Liou
National Taiwan University
Guoliang Liu
Virginia Tech
Shiyong Liu
University of Science & Technology
Timothy Long
Arizona State University
John Matson
Virginia Tech
Markus Muellner
University of Sydney
Hatice Mutlu
Université de Haute-Alsace
Ravin Narain
University of Alberta
Julien Nicolas
University Paris-Sud
Kyoko Nozaki
The University of Tokyo
Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham
Makoto Ouchi,
Kyoto University
Derek Patton
University of Southern Mississippi
Seb Perrier
University of Warwick
Theresa Reineke
University of Minnesota
Megan Robertson
University of Houston
Amitav Sanyal
Bogazici University
Felix Schacher
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Helmut Schlaad
University of Potsdam
Ellen Sletten
University of California
Molly Stevens,
Imperial College London
Nathalie Stingelin
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ben Zhong Tang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lei Tao
Tsinghua University
Patrick Theato
KIT
Maria Vamvakaki
FORTH-IESL
Jan van Hest
Eindhoven University of Technology
Kelly Velonia
University of Crete
María J. Vicent,
CIPF
Nicholas Warren
University of Sheffield
Marcus Weck
NYU
Paul Wilson
University of Warwick
Frederik Wurm
Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung
Naoko Yoshie
University of Tokyo
Wei You
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Xi Zhang
Tsinghua University
Maria Southall
Executive Editor
Cara Sutton
Editorial Manager
Molly Colgate
Assistant Editor
Katie Morton
Assistant Editor
Charu Storr-Vijay
Assistant Editor
Alison Winder
Assistant Editor
Basita Javeed
Editorial Assistant
Allison Holloway
Publishing Assistant
Sam Keltie
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