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Food and Drug Law Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Food and Drug Law Institute.
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ISSN 1064-590XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Food and Drug Law Institute
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 686 / 1162 | 40th | Q3 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 587 / 725 | 19th | Q4 |
| Pharmacology | 276 / 328 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–2025 (also 1992–2018), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Food and Drug Law Journal is Q3 in Law (rank 686 of 1162), Q4 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 587 of 725) and Q4 in Pharmacology (rank 276 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Food and Drug Law Journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.127, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 25.
Food and Drug Law Journal is published by Food and Drug Law Institute. Its ISSN is 1064-590X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Food and Drug Law Journal has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Food and Drug Law Journal published 1 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2009 with 5. 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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