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Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP).
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ISSN 2376-0540Verify ISSN ↗2376-1032Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacy | 4 / 52 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Health Policy | 90 / 330 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Pharmaceutical Science | 76 / 191 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.6.
Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy is Q1 in Pharmacy (rank 4 of 52), Q2 in Health Policy (rank 90 of 330) and Q2 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 76 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.212, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 82.
Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy is published by Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP). Its print ISSN is 2376-0540 and its online ISSN is 2376-1032.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 2.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 50 Scopus journals in Pharmacy.
Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy published 158 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 219. 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.
In its latest 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (96.8%), United Kingdom (1.1%) and Macao SAR China (0.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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