Designed Monomers and Polymers

Designed Monomers and Polymers is a fully open access journal from Taylor & Francis devoted to monomer synthesis and to the macromolecular materials designed from those monomers, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.《设计单体与聚合物》是 Taylor & Francis 出版的一份完全开放获取期刊，专注单体合成以及由这些单体设计出的高分子材料，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Its territory sits between organic synthesis and polymer chemistry, and the remit runs from a new route to a monomer through to the properties of the finished material.刊物的领域处在有机合成与高分子化学之间，选题范围从单体的一条新合成路线一直延伸到成品材料的性能。

Volume 1 appeared in 1998 under VSP in Utrecht, and since the middle of 2012 the title has been published from Abingdon by Taylor & Francis, which moved the whole journal to open access in 2016.第 1 卷于 1998 年由乌得勒支的 VSP 出版，2012 年年中起改由 Taylor & Francis 在阿宾登出版，出版社于 2016 年把整份刊物转为开放获取。

Scope

• The aims promise prompt peer-reviewed papers and short topical reviews across every area of macromolecular design and application, without restricting the journal to one polymer family.宗旨承诺刊发高分子设计与应用各领域的快速同行评审论文与短篇专题综述，不把刊物限定在某一类高分子上。
• Preparation of new monomers carries the emphasis, and each report is expected to cover characterisation as well as the use that follows from it.新单体的制备占据重心，每篇报告都要交代表征结果，以及由此展开的用途。
• Authors must give experimental detail full enough for another group to repeat the work, including specific observations, precautionary notes and the problems raised by unfamiliar materials or techniques.作者须给出足以让他人复现工作的实验细节，包括具体观察、注意事项，以及陌生材料或技术带来的问题。
• Kinetics, mechanism and modelling of polymerisation form a standing topic, and the journal treats them as part of monomer design rather than as a separate speciality.聚合动力学、机理与建模是常设方向，刊物把它们视为单体设计的一部分，而不是另立门户的专门领域。
• New routes to monomers already in use are welcome, since a cheaper or cleaner synthesis of a known building block counts as a result in its own right.已知单体的新路线同样受欢迎，成熟砌块更便宜或更清洁的合成本身就算一项成果。
• For an unfamiliar monomer the journal asks for evidence that it really polymerises, whether by polycondensation, sequential combination, oxidative coupling, radiation or plasma routes.对陌生单体，刊物要求给出它确实能够聚合的证据，缩聚、顺序组合、氧化偶联、辐射或等离子体路线皆可。
• Functional prepolymers of defined architecture belong to the same programme, with hyperbranched polymers, telechelic chains, macromonomers and dendrimers named in the aims.结构明确的功能性预聚物属于同一范围，超支化聚合物、遥爪链、大分子单体与树枝状聚合物都在宗旨里被点名。
• Polymeric biomaterials and biomedical polymers for medical use form the applied wing, and they draw surgical and pharmaceutical readers into a chemistry journal.面向医学用途的聚合物生物材料与生物医学高分子构成应用一翼，把外科与药学读者带进一份化学刊物。
• The stated purpose is to act as an interface between organic and polymer chemistry, a bridge the field has wanted since monomers became molecules that can be tailored.声明的目标是充当有机化学与高分子化学之间的接口，这一桥梁自单体成为可裁剪的分子以来一直为领域所需。
• Experimental papers dominate, but short topical reviews give readers a way into a subfield without the length of a full review article.实验论文占多数，短篇专题综述则为读者提供进入某一分支的入口，不必读完长篇综述。
• Manuscripts are judged on whether the monomer work is new and whether the polymer result is properly tied to it, which keeps synthesis and materials inside one frame.审稿关注单体工作是否有新意，以及聚合物结果是否与之真正衔接，合成与材料因此留在同一个框架里。
• Characterisation expectations reach past routine spectra, since molecular weight distribution, thermal behaviour and morphology decide whether a designed monomer is worth scaling up.表征要求超出常规谱图，分子量分布、热行为与形貌决定一个设计出来的单体是否值得放大。
• Applications named in the aims lean toward coatings, adhesives and biomedical devices, fields where a new monomer changes performance instead of merely replacing one feedstock.宗旨点到的应用偏向涂料、胶黏剂与生物医学器件，这些领域里新单体会改变性能，而不只是替换一种原料。
• Nothing in the scope restricts submissions by country, and the author base in recent years has been led by China, India and Saudi Arabia.范围条款不限制投稿国别，近年作者来源以中国、印度与沙特阿拉伯居前。

History

• The first volume is dated 1998 and came from VSP, the Utrecht publisher that specialised in polymer and materials titles and was later folded into Brill.第 1 卷标注 1998 年，出版方是乌得勒支的 VSP，这家出版社专营高分子与材料类选题，后来并入 Brill。
• Volume 1 ran to four issues, and its opening papers dealt with intermediates for vapour phase deposition and with polybenzoxazoles, a fair sample of the monomer-first remit.第 1 卷共出 4 期，开篇论文讨论气相沉积用中间体与聚苯并噁唑，正好体现了以单体为先的选题取向。^[1]
• Volume numbers ran without a break through the change of owner, so volume 17 covers 2014, volume 20 covers 2017 and volume 29 carries the 2026 papers.卷号在易主时没有中断，第 17 卷对应 2014 年，第 20 卷对应 2017 年，第 29 卷收录 2026 年的文章。
• Every DOI from 1998 to early 2012 sits under the Brill prefix 10.1163, which is how the VSP years remain identifiable in citation records.1998 年至 2012 年初的 DOI 全部落在 Brill 的 10.1163 前缀之下，VSP 时期因此在引文记录里仍然可辨。
• The handover to Taylor & Francis happened inside volume 15 in 2012, with issues 1 to 3 still carrying Brill identifiers and issues 4 to 6 already registered under 10.1080.移交发生在 2012 年的第 15 卷之内，第 1 期至第 3 期仍用 Brill 标识，第 4 期至第 6 期已改挂 10.1080 前缀。
• Publication then settled in Abingdon, and the journal has stayed with the same publisher for more than a decade, an unusually long run for a small title.出版地随后定在阿宾登，刊物在同一家出版社旗下已经十多年，对一份小型刊物来说这算相当长的稳定期。
• Eight issues a year were listed from 2014, which raised the issue count of a volume and gave short papers a faster route into print.2014 年起刊期列为每年 8 期，一卷的期数由此增加，短稿也有了更快的见刊通道。
• From 2017 the annual volume has carried a single issue number, with papers paginated consecutively as they are accepted.2017 年起每卷只编 1 期，文章录用后按顺序连续编页。
• Full open access began in 2016, when the journal dropped the subscription model and moved every article onto a Creative Commons licence.完全开放获取始于 2016 年，刊物放弃订阅模式，全部文章改用知识共享许可。
• Authors now pay an article processing charge of about 1680 United States dollars, and they choose between the CC BY licence and the non-commercial CC BY-NC.作者现需支付约 1680 美元的版面费，并在 CC BY 许可与不可商用的 CC BY-NC 之间选择。
• PubMed coverage starts with volume 20 in 2017, and the archive is deposited in PubMed Central, which widened the readership beyond polymer specialists.PubMed 的收录从 2017 年第 20 卷开始，全文存入 PubMed Central，读者范围因此超出高分子专业圈。
• Output has thinned in recent years, with 11 papers carrying 2024 dates and seven so far in 2025, against 94 in 2016.近年发文量收窄，标注 2024 年的文章为 11 篇，2025 年至今 7 篇，而 2016 年有 94 篇。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4 with a five-year figure of 2.5, placing the journal 61st of 96 in Polymer Science.2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子为 2.5，在高分子科学类 96 种刊物中排第 61 位。
• Impact readings have swung by a factor of two across four years, from 3.718 in 2022 to 1.8 in 2023, then 2.3 in 2024 and 2.4 in 2025.影响因子四年内起伏接近一倍，2022 年为 3.718，2023 年降到 1.8，2024 年为 2.3，2025 年为 2.4。

Editors

• Munmaya K. Mishra, a polymer chemist working through ENCAPCR LLC, holds the editor-in-chief post and sets the journal's line on what counts as a new monomer.主编由高分子化学家 Munmaya K. Mishra 担任，他以 ENCAPCR LLC 的名义主持编辑部，把握刊物对单体新颖性的判断尺度。
• His own research has centred on controlled polymerisation and on the synthesis of functional monomers, which matches the journal's preference for chemistry that ends in a material.他本人的研究集中在可控聚合与功能单体合成，这与刊物偏爱最终落到材料上的化学相合。
• Jing Zhao of Beijing University of Chemical Technology sits on the board and represents the Chinese research community, one of the largest author groups the journal draws on.北京化工大学的赵静（Jing Zhao）在编委会中代表中国研究群体，这一群体也是刊物最大的作者来源之一。
• Review is single anonymous, so referees stay hidden while their names are unknown to authors, a model common among chemistry titles at the publisher.评审采用单盲方式，审稿人对作者匿名，这在出版社的化学类刊物中是常见做法。
• Submission runs through the publisher's online system, and the instructions ask authors to state the monomer contribution plainly in the cover letter.投稿经由出版社的在线系统完成，投稿须知要求作者在说明信里把单体方面的贡献讲清楚。
• Publisher figures from 2022 put the median time to a first decision at 18 days and to a first peer-review decision at 22 days.出版社 2022 年公布的数据显示，初审中位时间为 18 天，首轮同行评审决定为 22 天。
• Acceptance to online publication was reported at 14 days, a short interval that suits a journal printing only a handful of papers each year.从录用到在线出版据报为 14 天，这一间隔很短，与每年只发少量论文的刊物相称。
• The board is small and chemistry-led, and it carries the refereeing load that a specialised title cannot spread across a large panel of reviewers.编委会规模不大，以化学背景为主，承担着一份专业刊物无法摊到庞大小组的审稿量。
• The publisher registers the title with the Directory of Open Access Journals, which records plagiarism screening as part of the editorial workflow.出版社将该刊登记于开放获取期刊目录，其中记录的工作流程包含查重筛查。
• Corrections are carried as short items in the current volume, and volume 29 includes a correction to a paper published earlier.更正以短条目形式刊登在当年卷内，第 29 卷收录了一则对早先论文的更正。