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Chinese Pharmaceutical Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1). Published by Chinese Pharmaceutical Association.
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ISSN 1001-2494Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Pharmaceutical Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical Science | 142 / 191 | 25th | Q3 |
| Pharmacology | 272 / 328 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Chinese Pharmaceutical Journal is Q3 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 142 of 191) and Q4 in Pharmacology (rank 272 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Pharmaceutical Journal is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3, 25th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.169, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 23.
Chinese Pharmaceutical Journal is published by Chinese Pharmaceutical Association. Its ISSN is 1001-2494.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Pharmaceutical Journal has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #162 of 177 Scopus journals in Pharmaceutical Science.
Chinese Pharmaceutical Journal published 241 papers in 2016. 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.
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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