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Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5). Published by Editorial Office of Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs.
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ISSN 0253-2670Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Office of Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical Science | 127 / 191 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 79 / 115 | 31st | Q3 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 200 / 278 | 28th | Q3 |
| Drug Discovery | 138 / 161 | 14th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs is Q3 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 127 of 191), Q3 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 79 of 115) and Q3 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 200 of 278), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs 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 1.5, quartile Q3, 33rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.198, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 30.
Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs is published by Editorial Office of Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs. Its ISSN is 0253-2670.
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 Traditional and Herbal Drugs has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #162 of 177 Scopus journals in Pharmaceutical Science.
Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs published 3 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 435. 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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