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Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0009-2363Verify ISSN ↗1347-5223Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemistry (all) | 244 / 402 | 39th | Q3 |
| Drug Discovery | 123 / 161 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1958–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.4.
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin is Q3 in Chemistry (all) (rank 244 of 402) and Q4 in Drug Discovery (rank 123 of 161), by CiteScore 2025.
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 39th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.318, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 109.
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin is published by Pharmaceutical Society of Japan. Its print ISSN is 0009-2363 and its online ISSN is 1347-5223.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin has an h-index of 142 and a 2-year mean of 1.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #215 of 382 Scopus journals in Chemistry (all).
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin published 157 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 186. 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 Japan (83.8%), China (6.5%) and United Kingdom (1.8%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 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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