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Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Group LLC Philadelphia.
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ISSN 1536-0288Verify ISSN ↗1536-0539Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group LLC Philadelphia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 78 / 147 | 47th | Q3 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 189 / 278 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy is Q3 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 78 of 147) and Q3 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 189 of 278), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.353, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 49.
Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy is published by Taylor & Francis Group LLC Philadelphia. Its print ISSN is 1536-0288 and its online ISSN is 1536-0539.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 0.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #83 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy published 85 papers in 2025. 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (35.7%), Indonesia (13%) and Japan (7.6%).
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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