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Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0171-2004Verify ISSN ↗1865-0325Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all) | 9 / 79 | 89th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry | 141 / 448 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology is Q1 in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all) (rank 9 of 79) and Q2 in Biochemistry (rank 141 of 448), by CiteScore 2025.
Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology 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 6.7, quartile Q1, 89th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.167, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 119.
Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0171-2004 and its online ISSN is 1865-0325.
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.
Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology has an h-index of 143 and a 2-year mean of 3.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 77 Scopus journals in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all).
Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 150. 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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