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• http://www.nature.com/pj
• Editor: Toshikazu Takata
• Volume 42: 12 issues per year
• ISSN: 0032-3896
• EISSN: 1349-0540
• Impact factor : 1.456*
• Impact ranking: 31/73 in Polymer Science
• Date Established: 1970
• Published on behalf of: The Society of Polymer Science, Japan

Aims and Scope:
Polymer Journal promotes research from all aspects of polymer science from anywhere in the world and aims to provide an integrated platform for scientific communication that assists the advancement of polymer science and related fields. The journal publishes Original Articles, Notes, Short Communications and Reviews.

Subject areas and topics of particular interest within the journal's scope include, but are not limited to, those listed below:

• Polymer synthesis and reactions
• Polymer structures
• Physical properties of polymers
• Polymer surface and interfaces
• Functional polymers
• Supramolecular polymers
• Self-assembled materials
• Biopolymers, bio-related polymer materials
• Polymer engineering

Readership:
Polymer Journal is essential reading for researchers and engineers in polymer science and polymer-related material sciences and chemistry.

Online features and site license access:

• Online archive from January 2009 to June 2009 will be available on www.nature.com from July 2009.
• From July 2009 onwards additional issues of the 2009 archive will be added to nature.com each month.
• A site license provides access to all content published during the supply period. Access is granted to a further rolling four-year archive during the supply period only.
• Indexed in ChemPort, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Thomson Reuters), JDream II, Chemical Citation Index (Thomson Reuters), Chemistry Server Reaction Center (Thomson Reuters), ChemWeb (ChemIndustry.com), Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (Thomson Reuters), Materials Science Citation Index (Thomson Reuters), Science Citation Index Expanded (Thomson Reuters), Science Citation Index (Thomson Reuters), SCOPUS (Elsevier) and Web of Science (Thomson Reuters).

*2008 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2009)