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Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 20.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 1818-0876Verify ISSN ↗2221-285XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical Science | 2 / 191 | 99th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology | 8 / 328 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 20.5.
Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences is Q1 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 2 of 191) and Q1 in Pharmacology (rank 8 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 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 20.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.196, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 87.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 1818-0876 and its online ISSN is 2221-285X.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences has an h-index of 91 and a 2-year mean of 7.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 20.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 177 Scopus journals in Pharmaceutical Science.
Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 92. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (66%), South Korea (7%) and India (5.6%). 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. 9 retracted papers are recorded (9 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.
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