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Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Japanese Society for the Study of Xenobiotics.
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ISSN 1347-4367Verify ISSN ↗1880-0920Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Society for the Study of Xenobiotics
Cost to publish: About US$3,580 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology (medical) | 92 / 278 | 66th | Q2 |
| Pharmaceutical Science | 69 / 191 | 64th | Q2 |
| Pharmacology | 133 / 328 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.2.
Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics is Q2 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 92 of 278), Q2 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 69 of 191) and Q2 in Pharmacology (rank 133 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.626, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 81.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,580 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 Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics is published by Japanese Society for the Study of Xenobiotics. Its print ISSN is 1347-4367 and its online ISSN is 1880-0920.
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 Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics has an h-index of 86 and a 2-year mean of 0.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #228 of 271 Scopus journals in Pharmacology (medical).
Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics published 454 papers in 2025. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (49.8%), United States (23.6%) and South Korea (4.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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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