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Journal of Excipients and Food Chemicals is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), DOAJ. Published by International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC).
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ISSN 2150-2668Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical Science | 130 / 191 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Food Science | 320 / 420 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Journal of Excipients and Food Chemicals is Q3 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 130 of 191) and Q4 in Food Science (rank 320 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Excipients and Food Chemicals 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 1.3, quartile Q3, 32nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.187, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 20.
Journal of Excipients and Food Chemicals is published by International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC). Its ISSN is 2150-2668.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Excipients and Food Chemicals has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #162 of 177 Scopus journals in Pharmaceutical Science.
Journal of Excipients and Food Chemicals published 1 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2010 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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