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Current Medicinal Chemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.5), 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 0929-8673Verify ISSN ↗1875-533XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Chemistry | 56 / 215 | 74th | Q2 |
| Pharmacology | 91 / 328 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Biochemistry | 148 / 448 | 67th | Q2 |
| Drug Discovery | 54 / 161 | 66th | Q2 |
| Molecular Medicine | 71 / 179 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.5.
Current Medicinal Chemistry is Q2 in Organic Chemistry (rank 56 of 215), Q2 in Pharmacology (rank 91 of 328) and Q2 in Biochemistry (rank 148 of 448), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Current Medicinal Chemistry 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 6.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.735, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 218.
Current Medicinal Chemistry is published by Bentham Science Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0929-8673 and its online ISSN is 1875-533X.
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 Medicinal Chemistry has an h-index of 230 and a 2-year mean of 2.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #100 of 210 Scopus journals in Organic Chemistry.
Current Medicinal Chemistry published 359 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 545. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (58.6%), Iran (6.1%) and India (6.1%). 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. 9 retracted papers are recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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