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Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0008-4123Verify ISSN ↗1920-2903Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacy | 27 / 52 | 49th | Q3 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 203 / 278 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy is Q3 in Pharmacy (rank 27 of 52) and Q3 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 203 of 278), by CiteScore 2025.
Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.282, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy is published by Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists. Its print ISSN is 0008-4123 and its online ISSN is 1920-2903.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 50 Scopus journals in Pharmacy.
Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 280. 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 85 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Canada (76.3%), United States (5.9%) and Brazil (3.5%). 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.
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