Journal of Elastomers & Plastics is a SAGE title that has followed rubber, elastomer and plastics technology since 1969, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4.《Journal of Elastomers & Plastics》是 SAGE 旗下刊物，1969 年起跟踪橡胶、弹性体与塑料工艺，2025 年影响因子 2.4。
Volume 58 is the 2026 volume and eight issues close each year, so a volume is a calendar year rather than a stretch of months that drifts across two.第 58 卷对应 2026 年，每年出八期，一卷就是一个自然年，而不是跨着两个年份往前漂的一段月份。
Scope
The brief starts with the chemistry of elastomers and plastics, so a paper on curing agents or on a new vulcanisation route belongs to the journal before any application is mentioned.征稿从弹性体与塑料的化学开始，讲硫化剂或新硫化路线的论文在谈到用途之前就已经属于这本刊。
Processing is the second leg, and extrusion, moulding and the parameters of an additive manufacturing run are treated as subjects in their own right.加工是第二条腿，挤出、模塑与增材制造里的一组工艺参数本身就可以作为题目。
Properties come third, with ageing, swelling and mechanical response measured on real compounds rather than on idealised specimens alone.性能排第三，老化、溶胀与力学响应都在真实配方上测，不只靠理想化试样。
The area between the two material families is claimed explicitly, so thermoplastic elastomers and blends of a rubber phase with a plastic matrix sit at the centre of the coverage.两类材料之间的地带被明确划进范围，热塑性弹性体与橡胶相混入塑料基体的共混物正落在覆盖中心。
Reinforcement and fillers take up a large share of recent papers, from silica recovered as kerf waste to ground wire scrap from electrical discharge machining.补强与填料占了近期论文的很大一块，从回收的硅粉切屑到电火花加工废黄铜丝都在其中。
Natural fibre composites appear repeatedly, with hemp, kenaf and ramie studied for how fibre treatment and layering change tensile and shear behaviour.天然纤维复合材料反复出现，大麻、洋麻与苎麻都被研究过，看纤维处理与铺层怎样改变拉伸与剪切行为。
Polymer additive manufacturing is inside the scope, and several papers optimise print temperature, layer height or infill for polylactic acid and for PETG composites.聚合物增材制造也在范围内，多篇论文为聚乳酸与 PETG 复合材料优化打印温度、层高或填充率。
Sealing and durability in service are treated as engineering questions, including the design of rubber O-rings for high-pressure hydrogen duty.使用中的密封与耐久被当作工程问题处理，高压氢气工况下的橡胶 O 形圈设计就属这一类。
Ageing studies combine thermal exposure with spectroscopy and mechanical testing, and the point is usually to place a service life rather than to report a single curve.老化研究把热暴露与光谱、力学测试合在一起，落点通常是给出一条使用寿命，而不是只报一条曲线。
Patents are part of the editorial content rather than an appendix, and the coverage of patent literature is what lets an industrial reader track a competitor's filings.专利是编辑内容的一部分而不是附录，正是这部分让产业读者能盯住竞争对手的申请。
Reviews and book reviews appear beside primary papers, so a reader can find a survey of a coupling agent family and a critique of a handbook in the same volume.综述与书评与研究论文并列，读者在同一卷里既能找到某类偶联剂的综述，也能找到对一本手册的评论。
Applications named in recent titles run from automotive weatherstrips and conveyor belting to maxillofacial prosthetic silicones and biomedical scaffolds.近期题名里出现的用途从汽车密封条与输送带到颌面修复用硅橡胶与生物医学支架都有。
The journal does not set a clinical readership as its target, since the medical papers it carries are read for the material behaviour they report.这本刊不把临床读者当目标，所载医学类论文被读的是其中的材料行为。
History
The first volume is dated 1969 and the imprint of that period is Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where the Technomic Publishing Company then worked.第 1 卷署 1969 年，当年的出版者印记在宾夕法尼亚州兰开斯特，Technomic 出版公司在那里办公。
The oldest record the registration agency holds is volume 6, number 1 of January 1974, which already carried an editorial, industry news and four research papers.注册机构保存的最早记录是 1974 年 1 月第 6 卷第 1 期，那一期已经有社论、行业新闻与四篇研究论文。
Ownership moved to SAGE, and the current imprint names Thousand Oaks in California, which is where the publishing office for the title now sits.出版方后来转到 SAGE，现行出版者印记写着加利福尼亚州千橡市，刊物的出版办公室现在设在那里。
Industry news ran as a standing front section through the 1990s, with items in volume 26 and volume 27 dated between 1993 and 1995.行业新闻在 1990 年代是固定前置栏目，第 26 卷与第 27 卷里的条目署着 1993 到 1995 年。
Eight issues make a volume, and the counts per volume over the last nine years run from 43 to 75 papers, rising in the most recent volumes.一卷八期，近九年每卷的篇数从 43 篇到 75 篇，越近的几卷越高。
Volume 50 carried 49 papers and volume 51 carried 44, while volume 54 carried 71 and volume 58 had 75 by the time the record was read.第 50 卷收 49 篇，第 51 卷 44 篇，第 54 卷到了 71 篇，第 58 卷读到记录时已收 75 篇。
Papers sometimes reach the next volume late, so volume 51 holds 2018 material and volume 53 holds items dated 2019, 2020 and 2021 together.论文有时晚一步落进下一卷，第 51 卷里有 2018 年的内容，第 53 卷里 2019、2020 与 2021 年的条目并存。
The Journal Impact Factor was 2.215 for 2022, 1.4 for 2023, 1.6 for 2024 and 2.4 for 2025, so the run has gone down and come back within four years.影响因子 2022 年是 2.215，2023 年 1.4，2024 年 1.6，2025 年 2.4，四年里先跌后回。
Its five-year figure is 2.2, and the title sits in the third quartile of materials science, multidisciplinary at 326 of 472 on the 31st percentile.五年影响因子是 2.2，刊物在材料科学综合类列第三区，472 种刊中排 326，百分位 31。
Polymer science gives the second placement, again third quartile at 61 of 96, a field in which the journal has published since its first volume.高分子科学给出第二个位置，同样是第三区，96 种刊中排 61，这个领域从首卷起就在刊物的范围里。
The 2025 release records 1,277 citations, with 77 articles giving 78 citable items, a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.37 and a cited half-life of 5.6 years, the longest of the titles in this batch.2025 年版记下总被引 1277 次，77 篇文章给出 78 篇可引条目，期刊引文指标 0.37，被引半衰期 5.6 年，是本批几本刊里最长的。
Only 1.64 per cent of the articles are gold open access, which matches a subscription title with a small hybrid channel for authors who pay.只有 1.64% 的文章是金色开放获取，这与一本订阅刊相符，混合通道只给愿意付钱的作者开一小口。
PubMed indexes the journal for selected citations only, so the medical literature there is a sample rather than a complete record of what has been published.PubMed 对该刊只做选摘，其中的医学文献是抽样而不是已发表内容的完整记录。
Papers carry identifiers in the 10.1177 range, the block that SAGE assigns to its journal programme across all of its titles.论文的标识符落在 10.1177 段，这一段是 SAGE 在自己整个期刊项目里统一使用的。
Editors
Each even-numbered issue carries a Patents section, so four times a year a digest of recent filings accompanies the research papers in the same number.每逢双号期都设专利栏目，一年四次，新近申请的摘要与研究论文同期刊出。
The most recent instance is labelled for the eighth issue of volume 58, which shows the section is indexed as a titled item rather than left out of the record.最近一次标注的是第 58 卷第 8 期的专利栏，说明这个栏目是有正式题名的条目，并没有被排除在记录之外。
Book reviews appear from the first decades onward, and a 1983 item reviews a handbook of synthetic rubbers, which means the editors commission outside readers for such notices.书评从最初几十年就有，1983 年的一篇评的是一本合成橡胶手册，这类短评由编辑部另请人写。
Industry news was an editorial product in the 1990s, written or compiled in house rather than submitted as research, and it has since given way to the patent digest.行业新闻在 1990 年代是编辑部自己写或自己编的产物，并非投稿，后来这个位置让给了专利摘要。
Peer review stands behind the research papers, and the journal is listed as refereed by the indexing services that carry it.研究论文背后有同行评审，收录它的索引服务也把该刊记为经过评审的刊物。
Selection for PubMed is partial, so the editors decide which of their papers reach a clinical audience through the National Library of Medicine.进入 PubMed 是部分收录，哪些论文走到国家医学图书馆的临床读者面前，由该馆的选摘决定。
Production runs through SAGE in Thousand Oaks, which also hosts the submission system and the platform where the issues are read.制作在千橡市的 SAGE 完成，投稿系统与阅读各期的平台也由同一方托管。
Authors write for an industrial as well as an academic readership, and the editorial mix of patents, news and papers has kept that dual audience in view since the 1970s.作者面对的是产业界与学术界两种读者，专利、新闻与论文搭配的编辑结构从 1970 年代起就照顾着这两拨人。
Special numbers are not a standing feature, and the volume structure shows eight regular issues rather than a schedule built around themed collections.专号不是固定安排，卷次结构显示每年八期常规出版，并没有围绕主题专辑排期。
The editorial address for correspondence is the publishing office in California, which is where the National Library of Medicine places the current imprint.通信的编辑部地址就是加利福尼亚的出版办公室，国家医学图书馆现行的出版者印记也落在这里。