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Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Bentham Science Publishers.
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ISSN 1871-5206Verify ISSN ↗1875-5992Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology | 83 / 328 | 74th | Q2 |
| Cancer Research | 78 / 233 | 66th | Q2 |
| Molecular Medicine | 67 / 179 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.7.
Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry is Q2 in Pharmacology (rank 83 of 328), Q2 in Cancer Research (rank 78 of 233) and Q2 in Molecular Medicine (rank 67 of 179), by CiteScore 2025.
Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.584, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 117.
Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry is published by Bentham Science Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1871-5206 and its online ISSN is 1875-5992.
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.
Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry has an h-index of 122 and a 2-year mean of 2.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #169 of 319 Scopus journals in Pharmacology.
Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry published 166 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 361. 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 India (30.3%), China (25.7%) and Türkiye (7.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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