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Current Pharmaceutical Design is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.8), 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 1381-6128Verify ISSN ↗1873-4286Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology | 112 / 328 | 66th | Q2 |
| Drug Discovery | 62 / 161 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.8.
Current Pharmaceutical Design is Q2 in Pharmacology (rank 112 of 328) and Q2 in Drug Discovery (rank 62 of 161), by CiteScore 2025.
Current Pharmaceutical Design 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.632, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 197.
Current Pharmaceutical Design is published by Bentham Science Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1381-6128 and its online ISSN is 1873-4286.
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 Pharmaceutical Design has an h-index of 209 and a 2-year mean of 2.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #126 of 319 Scopus journals in Pharmacology.
Current Pharmaceutical Design published 327 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 741. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (44.9%), China (25.3%) and Saudi Arabia (6.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 5 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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