eXPRESS Polymer Letters

eXPRESS Polymer Letters is a gold open access monthly published and hosted by the Department of Polymer Engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, founded in 2007 and devoted to polymer science and technology, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4 and a CiteScore of 4.5.《高分子快报》由布达佩斯技术与经济大学（Budapest University of Technology and Economics）机械工程学院高分子工程系出版并主办，2007 年创刊，是一份金色开放获取的月刊，覆盖高分子科学与技术各方向，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，CiteScore 为 4.5。

Scope

• The stated mission joins speed to openness, since the journal exists to offer a very fast, free of charge and gold open access publication route in polymer science and technology.办刊宗旨把速度与开放放在一起，刊物要为高分子科学与技术提供一条快速、免费且金色开放获取的发表通道。
• Its scope list opens with polymers themselves and runs through polymer composites, blends and alloys, nanomaterials and molecular engineering.范围清单从高分子本身开始，依次铺开高分子复合材料、共混物与合金、纳米材料以及分子工程。
• Tailor-made polymers, bio-based or biodegradable biopolymers and biocompatible polymers each hold an entry, which keeps synthesis and medical use inside one frame.定制高分子、生物基或可降解的生物高分子以及生物相容高分子各自单列，合成与医学用途因此处在同一框架内。
• Smart polymers appear beside polymer gels and membranes, a grouping that points to responsive materials rather than structural plastics alone.智能高分子与高分子凝胶及膜并列，这一组合指向响应性材料，而不止于结构塑料。
• Reinforcements and fillers are listed with interfaces, interphases and adhesion, so the boundary chemistry of a composite counts as much as its bulk.增强材料与填料和界面、界面相及粘接列在一起，复合材料的边界化学与本体性能因此同等重要。
• Polymer processing technologies, rubbers and rubber technologies and thin-layer technologies fill out the manufacturing side of the list.高分子加工技术、橡胶与橡胶技术以及薄层技术补足了清单里的制造一侧。
• Material testing and properties, recycling and modeling and simulation close the list, which brings end-of-life treatment and computation into the same remit.材料测试与性能、回收以及建模与仿真收束清单，报废处理与计算工作都落在同一范围里。
• Fourteen subject headings organize the content, from biopolymers, elastomers and fibrous polymers to functional, medical and smart polymers, with polymer chemistry, foams and recycling listed among them.内容按 14 个主题栏目编排，从生物高分子、弹性体与纤维状高分子，到功能高分子、医用高分子与智能高分子，高分子化学、发泡材料与回收也在其列。
• Thermoplastics and blends sit next to thermoplastic composites, while thermoset composites and thermoset polymers with coatings form the parallel set.热塑性塑料与共混物紧邻热塑性复合材料，热固性复合材料与热固性高分子及涂料则构成平行的一组。
• Testing, simulation and modeling is one of the fourteen headings, which signals that numerical work on polymer behavior is welcome alongside bench measurement.测试、仿真与建模是 14 个栏目之一，说明针对高分子行为的数值工作与实验测量一样受欢迎。
• Recycling appears both in the topic list and among the fourteen headings, a double mention that marks it as a priority rather than an afterthought.高分子回收在方向清单与 14 个栏目里各出现一次，两处提名把它标成重点而非附带议题。
• Beside regular articles the journal takes short original publications in letter form, proofs of concept and review articles that cover broader topics.除常规论文外，刊物还收快报形式的简短原创成果、概念验证以及覆盖较广题目的综述。
• Research articles carry 6000 to 8000 words including tables and references, reviews are expected to stay under 12000 words, and an Editorial corner holds a personal view of 600 to 800 words.研究论文连图表与文献在内为 6000 至 8000 词，综述一般不超过 12000 词，编辑角（Editorial corner）栏目收 600 至 800 词的个人观点。
• The letter and proof-of-concept formats exist so that one decisive result can reach print without being stretched into a full paper.快报与概念验证两种体裁的存在，是为了让一项决定性结果不必被拉长成完整论文即可发表。
• The scope page introduces the journal through the phrase first publication, which frames the title as a place to stake a claim early.范围页用「首次发表」这一说法介绍刊物，把它定位成可以尽早确立优先权的地方。

History

• The journal began in 2007 under the Department of Polymer Engineering, and volume 1 carries that year on its articles.刊物于 2007 年在高分子工程系创办，第 1 卷的文章都标着这一年。
• Volume 20 belongs to 2026 and its tenth issue is dated October, so one volume still matches one calendar year.第 20 卷属于 2026 年，其中第 10 期标注 10 月，一卷对一年的对应关系延续至今。
• Only one number is registered, 1788-618X, and it covers the electronic edition and the annual printed volume alike.刊物只登记一个编号 1788-618X，电子版与年末纸本共用这一个号。
• Twelve issues appear each year, dated no later than the first day of the month they carry.每年出 12 期，每期标注的日期不晚于所属月份的第一天。
• The electronic edition comes first, a printed volume follows at the end of each year, and copies reach the National Technical Information Centre and Library and the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.出版先走电子版，每卷年末再印纸质合订本，纸本送存匈牙利国家技术信息中心与图书馆以及匈牙利科学院图书馆。
• The journal is gold open access, free for authors and readers, and the license is CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.刊物走金色开放获取，作者与读者两方都不收费，许可协议为 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0。
• Users may read, print, search, download, copy, distribute or link to the full texts as long as the source is credited and no alteration or commercial use is made.读者可以阅读、打印、检索、下载、复制、分发或链接全文，前提是注明来源且不作改动与商业使用。
• The first Journal Impact Factor arrived in 2010 and covered citation year 2009, and the site records a steady rise in the years that followed.首个期刊影响因子于 2010 年给出，对应 2009 年的引用数据，刊站记录称此后数值逐年上升。
• The 2025 impact factor is 2.4 and the Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, which puts the title in Q2 of Polymers and Plastics on the Scopus side.2025 年影响因子为 2.4，Scopus 的 CiteScore 为 4.5，按 Scopus 口径刊物处在 Polymers and Plastics 类目的 Q2。
• Journal Citation Reports place it 61 of 96 in Polymer Science, a Q3 position in the Science Citation Index Expanded edition.期刊引证报告把刊物列在高分子科学类目 96 种期刊的第 61 位，属 Science Citation Index Expanded 版次的 Q3。
• Four measurements read 3.952 for 2022, 2.7 for 2023, 2.6 for 2024 and 2.4 for 2025, a retreat from the 2022 peak.近四次测量为 2022 年 3.952，2023 年 2.7，2024 年 2.6 与 2025 年 2.4，数值从 2022 年的高点一路回落。
• Decision speed is reported as 4 days for a desk decision, 35 days to a first decision and 36 days to a final decision.刊站给出的决策速度为初筛 4 天，首次决定 35 天，最终决定 36 天。
• Acceptance runs at 24 percent, output at about 75 articles a year, total citations at 2955 and the cited half-life at 8.9 years.接收率为 24%，年发文约 75 篇，总被引 2955 次，被引半衰期为 8.9 年。
• Indexing runs through Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), Scopus, Chemical Abstracts, DOAJ and EBSCO, while PubMed carries selected citations only.收录方包括 Clarivate Analytics 的 Web of Science，也包括 Scopus 与 Chemical Abstracts，DOAJ 与 EBSCO 同样在列，PubMed 则只选登部分文章。
• From 1 January 2026 a research article of up to 10 pages and a review of up to 20 pages are published free of charge, and pages beyond those limits carry an excess page charge.自 2026 年 1 月 1 日起，研究论文 10 页以内、综述 20 页以内免费发表，超出页数另收超页费。

Editors

• Tamás Bárány, associate professor and head of the Department of Polymer Engineering, holds the editor-in-chief post and works on elastomers and thermoplastic composites.主编为（Tamás Bárány），高分子工程系系主任、副教授，研究弹性体与热塑性复合材料。
• He took his PhD in 2004 and has been awarded the Junior Prima Prize, the Bolyai Plaque of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and two János Bolyai research scholarships.他 2004 年获得博士学位，曾获 Junior Prima 奖与匈牙利科学院 Bolyai 奖牌，并两度获得 János Bolyai 研究奖学金。
• László Mészáros is vice editor-in-chief, an associate professor in the same department and a research fellow in the MTA-BME group for composite science and technology, with functional polymers, thermoplastics and blends as his topics.副主编为（László Mészáros），同系副教授，同时在 MTA-BME 复合材料科学与技术研究组任研究员，负责功能高分子、热塑性塑料与共混物方向。
• Five topic editors divide the field, with Kolos Molnár on fibrous materials and smart polymers, Ferenc Ronkay on foams and recycling, Gábor Szebényi on medical polymers and thermoset composites, Tamás Tábi on biopolymers and Andrea Toldy on polymer chemistry and thermoset coatings.5 位主题编辑分掌各方向，（Kolos Molnár）负责纤维材料与智能高分子，（Ferenc Ronkay）负责发泡材料与高分子回收，（Gábor Szebényi）负责医用高分子与热固性复合材料，（Tamás Tábi）负责生物高分子，（Andrea Toldy）负责高分子化学与热固性涂料。
• József Karger-Kocsis and Tibor Czigány, both at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, are listed as founding editors.创刊编辑为（József Karger-Kocsis）与（Tibor Czigány），两人都隶属布达佩斯技术与经济大学。
• Twenty international advisers sit on the advisory board, and their affiliations reach the United Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand, Argentina, India, China, Malaysia, Thailand and continental Europe.国际顾问委员会由 20 人组成，成员机构分布到英国、美国、新西兰、阿根廷、印度、中国、马来西亚、泰国以及欧洲大陆。
• Alexander Bismarck of Imperial College London, Witold Brostow of the University of North Texas and Stoyko Fakirov of the University of Auckland are among them.名单中有 Imperial College London 的（Alexander Bismarck）、University of North Texas 的（Witold Brostow）与 University of Auckland 的（Stoyko Fakirov）。
• Kinsuk Naskar of the Rubber Technology Centre at IIT Kharagpur, Shipeng Wen of the Beijing University of Chemical Technology and Ming Qiu Zhang of Zhongshan University in Guangzhou fill further seats.IIT Kharagpur 橡胶技术中心的（Kinsuk Naskar）、北京化工大学的（Shipeng Wen）与广州 Zhongshan University 的（Ming Qiu Zhang）占据另外几个席位。
• The executive editorial board has four members, Levente Macskási, Bálint Morlin, Gábor Romhány and Júlia Völgyi.执行编委 4 人，分别为（Levente Macskási）、（Bálint Morlin）、（Gábor Romhány）与（Júlia Völgyi）。
• Review is single blind, at least two external referees report on each paper, and the scope page calls the arrangement strict single-blind peer reviewing.评审为单盲，每篇论文至少由 2 位外审给出意见，范围页把这一安排称作严格的单盲评审。
• Before a manuscript goes out, the editors run their own plagiarism check in Web of Science and Google Scholar, so screening stays in house.稿件送出之前，编辑本人用 Web of Science 与 Google Scholar 做查重，筛查在编辑部内部完成。
• Publication can follow within three to four months of submission, with two weeks allowed for a minor revision, four weeks for a major one and 72 hours for proofs.论文最快可在投稿后 3 至 4 个月内发表，小修给 2 周，大修给 4 周，校样须在 72 小时内退回。
• Manuscripts pass through Manuscript Central only, a first submission is a single PDF, an incomplete file is deleted after one month, and the office answers at expresspolymlett@pt.bme.hu.投稿只经 Manuscript Central 在线提交，首次投稿为单个 PDF 文件，材料不全的稿件一个月内不补齐会被系统自动删除，编辑部邮箱印在同一份投稿指南里。
• The style sheet permits a single corresponding author, an abstract of 10 to 15 lines, a landscape graphical abstract of 1500 by 900 pixels and at least five keywords.格式要求只设一位通讯作者，摘要 10 至 15 行，图形摘要为 1500×900 像素的横版，关键词至少 5 个。