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American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0002-9459Verify ISSN ↗1553-6467Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacy | 7 / 52 | 87th | Q1 |
| Education | 482 / 1698 | 71st | Q2 |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all) | 23 / 79 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1991, 1973–1989, 1945–1948), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.8.
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education is Q1 in Pharmacy (rank 7 of 52), Q2 in Education (rank 482 of 1698) and Q2 in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all) (rank 23 of 79), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.697, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 87.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,400 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.
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0002-9459 and its online ISSN is 1553-6467.
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.
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education has an h-index of 109 and a 2-year mean of 1.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 50 Scopus journals in Pharmacy.
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education published 561 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 708. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (77.7%), Indonesia (3.1%) and Taiwan (3.1%). 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. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none 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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