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Drugs and Clinic is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Tianjin Press of Chinese Herbal Medicines.
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ISSN 1674-5515Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tianjin Press of Chinese Herbal Medicines
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical Science | 171 / 191 | 10th | Q4 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 261 / 278 | 6th | Q4 |
| Pharmacology | 308 / 328 | 6th | Q4 |
| Drug Discovery | 158 / 161 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Drugs and Clinic is Q4 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 171 of 191), Q4 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 261 of 278) and Q4 in Pharmacology (rank 308 of 328), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Drugs and Clinic 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 10th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.119, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
Drugs and Clinic is published by Tianjin Press of Chinese Herbal Medicines. Its ISSN is 1674-5515.
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.
Drugs and Clinic has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #162 of 177 Scopus journals in Pharmaceutical Science.
Drugs and Clinic published 2 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 235. 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.
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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