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Current Drug Metabolism is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Bentham Science Publishers.
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ISSN 1389-2002Verify ISSN ↗1875-5453Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Biochemistry | 69 / 124 | 44th | Q3 |
| Pharmacology | 184 / 328 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.9.
Current Drug Metabolism is Q3 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 69 of 124) and Q3 in Pharmacology (rank 184 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Current Drug Metabolism 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.492, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 130.
Current Drug Metabolism is published by Bentham Science Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1389-2002 and its online ISSN is 1875-5453.
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.
Current Drug Metabolism has an h-index of 139 and a 2-year mean of 2.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 121 Scopus journals in Clinical Biochemistry.
Current Drug Metabolism published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 172. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (40.4%), India (33.2%) and United States (6.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.4 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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