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Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology (nursing) | 3 / 10 | 75th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 197 / 278 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2015–2017), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences is Q1 in Pharmacology (nursing) (rank 3 of 10) and Q3 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 197 of 278), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.365, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,490 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 2055-0294.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #151 of 271 Scopus journals in Pharmacology (medical).
Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences published 126 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (87.4%), Ethiopia (3.2%) and Iran (2.1%). 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.
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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