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Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Dove Medical Press Ltd.
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ISSN 1179-1365Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Dove Medical Press Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 71 / 330 | 78th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology | 129 / 328 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety is Q1 in Health Policy (rank 71 of 330) and Q2 in Pharmacology (rank 129 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.668, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,320 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, Healthcare and Patient Safety is published by Dove Medical Press Ltd. Its ISSN is 1179-1365.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 2.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #96 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 36. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (11.1%), Ethiopia (10.2%) and China (9.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (11.7 per 1,000 papers). 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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