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Acta Pharmacologica Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 1671-4083Verify ISSN ↗1745-7254Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$4,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology (medical) | 5 / 278 | 98th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology | 11 / 328 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.7.
Acta Pharmacologica Sinica is Q1 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 5 of 278) and Q1 in Pharmacology (rank 11 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Pharmacologica Sinica is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 17.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.691, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 134.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,390 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Acta Pharmacologica Sinica is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 1671-4083 and its online ISSN is 1745-7254.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Pharmacologica Sinica has an h-index of 146 and a 2-year mean of 7.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 271 Scopus journals in Pharmacology (medical).
Acta Pharmacologica Sinica published 257 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 258. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (77%), Hong Kong SAR China (4.5%) and United States (3.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 19 retracted papers are recorded (4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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