Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Archives of Pharmacal Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pharmaceutical Society of Korea.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0253-6269Verify ISSN ↗1976-3786Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Society of Korea
Cost to publish: About US$5,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drug Discovery | 8 / 161 | 95th | Q1 |
| Organic Chemistry | 12 / 215 | 94th | Q1 |
| Molecular Medicine | 15 / 179 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.6.
Archives of Pharmacal Research is Q1 in Drug Discovery (rank 8 of 161), Q1 in Organic Chemistry (rank 12 of 215) and Q1 in Molecular Medicine (rank 15 of 179), by CiteScore 2025.
Archives of Pharmacal Research 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 13.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.840, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 118.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,290 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.
Archives of Pharmacal Research is published by Pharmaceutical Society of Korea. Its print ISSN is 0253-6269 and its online ISSN is 1976-3786.
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.
Archives of Pharmacal Research has an h-index of 125 and a 2-year mean of 8.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 159 Scopus journals in Drug Discovery.
Archives of Pharmacal Research published 63 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 126. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (39.8%), China (39%) and India (4.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 15 retracted papers are recorded (2.7 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.
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.
Comments load as you scroll here.