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Contemporary Clinical Trials is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 1551-7144Verify ISSN ↗1559-2030Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,140 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology (medical) | 148 / 278 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.6.
Contemporary Clinical Trials is Q3 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 148 of 278), by CiteScore 2025.
Contemporary Clinical Trials 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.966, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 84.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,140 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Contemporary Clinical Trials is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 1551-7144 and its online ISSN is 1559-2030.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Contemporary Clinical Trials has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 1.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #140 of 271 Scopus journals in Pharmacology (medical).
Contemporary Clinical Trials published 311 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 311. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (75.5%), Canada (3.9%) and Australia (3.1%). 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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