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Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.1). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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ISSN 0012-6543Verify ISSN ↗1755-5248Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology (medical) | 215 / 278 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.1.
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin is Q4 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 215 of 278), by CiteScore 2025.
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q4, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.188, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 18.
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its print ISSN is 0012-6543 and its online ISSN is 1755-5248.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #225 of 271 Scopus journals in Pharmacology (medical).
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 113. 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 53 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (62.3%), Australia (9.4%) and United States (5.7%). 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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