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Japanese Pharmacology and Therapeutics is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by Life Science Publishing Co. Ltd.
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ISSN 0386-3603Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Life Science Publishing Co. Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology (medical) | 268 / 278 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Pharmacology | 318 / 328 | 3rd | 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 1981–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Japanese Pharmacology and Therapeutics is Q4 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 268 of 278) and Q4 in Pharmacology (rank 318 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Japanese Pharmacology and Therapeutics 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 3rd 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 18.
Japanese Pharmacology and Therapeutics is published by Life Science Publishing Co. Ltd. Its ISSN is 0386-3603.
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.
Japanese Pharmacology and Therapeutics has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #250 of 271 Scopus journals in Pharmacology (medical).
Japanese Pharmacology and Therapeutics published 1 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 24. 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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