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Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0022-3549Verify ISSN ↗1520-6017Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,620 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical Science | 52 / 191 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1961–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.6.
Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences is Q2 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 52 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 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 6.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.711, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 224.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,620 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 Sciences is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0022-3549 and its online ISSN is 1520-6017.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences has an h-index of 279 and a 2-year mean of 1.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #103 of 177 Scopus journals in Pharmaceutical Science.
Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences published 1,033 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 34 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (41.9%), Germany (10.5%) and Japan (9.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 13 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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