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Drug and Chemical Toxicology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0148-0545Verify ISSN ↗1525-6014Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 91 / 725 | 87th | Q1 |
| Chemical Health and Safety | 5 / 20 | 77th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology | 86 / 328 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Toxicology | 38 / 131 | 71st | Q2 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 46 / 151 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.6.
Drug and Chemical Toxicology is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 91 of 725), Q1 in Chemical Health and Safety (rank 5 of 20) and Q2 in Pharmacology (rank 86 of 328), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Drug and Chemical Toxicology 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 6.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.535, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 60.
Drug and Chemical Toxicology is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0148-0545 and its online ISSN is 1525-6014.
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.
Drug and Chemical Toxicology has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 2.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #176 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Drug and Chemical Toxicology published 104 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 145. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (24.7%), India (18.2%) and Türkiye (12.1%).
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 1 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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