Journal profile · Polymer Science
Plasma Processes and Polymers
ISSN 1612-8850 · eISSN 1612-8869 · Wiley-VCH Verlag · GERMANY · Monthly · Founded 2004
Plasma Processes and Polymers: CAS Zone 3 · Physics & Astronomy (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.05; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,830; median 94 days to acceptance (91 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: about 50%; 156 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Plasma Processes and Polymers is published by Wiley-VCH Verlag and is in Zone 3 of Physics & Astronomy in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Plasma Applications and Diagnostics, Plasma Diagnostics and Applications and Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity, together about 45.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Electrical and Electronic Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Plasma Processes & Polymers focuses on the interdisciplinary field of low temperature plasma science, covering both experimental and theoretical aspects of fundamental and applied research in materials science, physics, chemistry and engineering in the area of plasma sources and plasma-based treatments. Plasma Processes and Polymers publishes an attractive mixture of strictly peer-reviewed Reviews, Feature Articles, Full Papers and Communications. The journal also presents Experts Opinions, Book Reviews, Conference Reports, and Essays. ISSN: Previously 1612-8850 (print). 1612-8869 (online). Currently 12 issues per year. How to cite: To make sure that references to this journal are correctly recorded and resolved (for example in CrossRef, PubMed, or ISI Web of Knowledge), please use the following abbreviated title in any citations: "Plasma Process Polym." (punctuation may vary according to the style of the citing journal).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Polymer Science
Editor-in-chief Dirk HegemannPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 6%); most named Germany 6, United States 4, Italy 4, Mainland China 2, France 2 (32 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Plasma Applications and DiagnosticsMedicine20.4%
- Plasma Diagnostics and ApplicationsEngineering12.6%
- Surface Modification and SuperhydrophobicityMaterials Science12.5%
- Metal and Thin Film MechanicsEngineering7.4%
- Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid DynamicsEngineering7.1%
- Diamond and Carbon-based Materials ResearchMaterials Science7%
- Catalytic Processes in Materials ScienceMaterials Science3.3%
- Semiconductor materials and devicesEngineering3.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Physics & Astronomy Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Physics & Astronomy | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Polymer Science | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Physics, Applied | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Physics, Condensed Matter | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Physics, Fluids & Plasmas | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Physics & Astronomy Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Physics & Astronomy | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Physics, Applied | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Physics, Fluids & Plasmas | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Physics, Condensed Matter | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Polymer Science | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Physics & Astronomy Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Physics & Astronomy | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Physics, Applied | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Physics, Condensed Matter | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Physics, Fluids & Plasmas | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Polymer Science | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EI CompendexWeb of ScienceINSPECCASCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 3.05LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 5.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 5.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.54LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.85LetPub ·
- h-index
- 63LetPub ·
- h-index
- 103OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,771OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.77OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 29.05%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 106LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 116Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 267,452Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,880 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 152 | 69 | 68 |
| 2025 | 156 | 62 | 255 |
| 2024 | 170 | 82 | 999 |
| 2023 | 161 | 109 | 1,235 |
| 2022 | 174 | 77 | 1,659 |
| 2021 | 152 | 48 | 1,675 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
94 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 64 days – 131 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 13 days (92 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 110 days
- Sample
- 91 articles with submission and acceptance dates (339 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 3 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- 50%LetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 41%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 41%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 80 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 12 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,830 / EUR 4,010 / GBP 3,190 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Page charges
- No page charges
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Required
- Cover letter
- Optional
Article types accepted10
- brief communicationResearch Articles must be either of current general interest or of great significance to a more specialized readership. All contributions will be judged on the …Length not stated
- brief communicationsBrief Communications are brief reports on experimental or theoretical studies in all branches of low temperature plasma science.Length not stated
- brief reportResearch Articles must be either of current general interest or of great significance to a more specialized readership. All contributions will be judged on the …Length not stated
- feature articlesFeature Articles should focus on a specific area of low temperature plasma science, without being as exhaustive as a Review.Length not stated
- full paperResearch Articles must be either of current general interest or of great significance to a more specialized readership. All contributions will be judged on the …Length not stated
- letterResearch Articles must be either of current general interest or of great significance to a more specialized readership. All contributions will be judged on the …Length not stated
- research articleResearch Articles must be either of current general interest or of great significance to a more specialized readership. All contributions will be judged on the …Length not stated
- research articlesResearch Articles must be either of current general interest or of great significance to a more specialized readership.Length not stated
- reviewResearch Articles must be either of current general interest or of great significance to a more specialized readership. All contributions will be judged on the …Length not stated
- reviewsFeature Articles and Reviews:Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Review editorial standards and scroll down for a description of authorship criteria.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. For details on what to include in this section, see the 'Conflict of Interest' information in Section 4. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Availability
Data sharing policy Model summary
This journal expects that data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository. Authors are required to provide a Data Availability Statement (DAS) to describe the availability or the absence of shared data. When data have been shared, authors are required to include in their Data Availability Statement a link to the repository they have used, and to cite t…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics 4. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Peer Review This journal operates under a single-anonymised peer review model. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements. All contributions will be evaluated according to the standard procedures of peer review, usually by two referees. To facilitate the refereeing process, please provide the names an…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Reproduction of Copyright Material
If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is the author’s responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners. The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce the material "in print and other media" from the publisher of the original source, and f…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
Open access option Model summary
This journal is a subscription journal that offers an open access option. You’ll have the option to choose to make your article open access after acceptance, which will be subject to an Article Publication Charge (APC). Some organizations pay APCs for their authors via a Wiley Open Access Account. You can read more about APCs and whether you may be eligible for waivers or discounts, through your i…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review
Single-anonymised peer review model Model summary
This journal operates under a single-anonymised peer review model. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements. All contributions will be evaluated according to the standard procedures of peer review, usually by two referees. To facilitate the refereeing process, please provide the names and email addr…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint Policy
Preprint policy Model summary
This journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers.Plasma Processed and Polymers will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. You may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. You are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.Please find the Wiley preprint policy he…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical Trial Registration
The journal requires that clinical trials are prospectively registered in a publicly accessible database and clinical trial registration numbers should be included in all papers that report their results. Authors are asked to include the name of the trial register and the clinical trial registration number at the end of the abstract. If the trial is not registered, or was registered retrospectivel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley-VCH Verlag
- Country or region
- GERMANY
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 2004
- ISSN
- 1612-8850
- Electronic ISSN
- 1612-8869
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 23, Issue 9 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Plasma Processes and Polymers
What CAS zone is Plasma Processes and Polymers in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Plasma Processes and Polymers is in Zone 3 of Physics & Astronomy, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Polymer Science / Physics, Applied / Physics, Condensed Matter / Physics, Fluids & Plasmas. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Physics & Astronomy. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Plasma Processes and Polymers?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.05; CiteScore 5.8, h-index 103.
How long does peer review take at Plasma Processes and Polymers?
Based on the dates recorded on 91 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 94 days (interquartile range 64–131 days); authors report an average review time of about 3 months; the community-reported acceptance is “about 50%”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 41% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Plasma Processes and Polymers?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Author–date; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Graphical abstract: Required; Cover letter: Optional. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Plasma Processes and Polymers based?
Of the 32 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 6%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Germany (6), United States (4) and Italy (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Plasma Processes and Polymers?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Plasma Processes and Polymers is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex, Web of Science, INSPEC, CAS and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Plasma Processes and Polymers open access, and what is the APC?
Plasma Processes and Polymers is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,830.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .