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Drug Delivery is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 20.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1071-7544Verify ISSN ↗1521-0464Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical Science | 4 / 191 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1993), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 20.2.
Drug Delivery is Q1 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 4 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
Drug Delivery 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 20.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.339, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 119.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,864 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Drug Delivery is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1071-7544 and its online ISSN is 1521-0464.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Drug Delivery has an h-index of 132 and a 2-year mean of 5.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 20.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 177 Scopus journals in Pharmaceutical Science.
Drug Delivery published 114 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 275. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (56.9%), United States (6.8%) and United Kingdom (5.3%). 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. 19 retracted papers are recorded (5.9 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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