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Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd.
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ISSN 0976-500XVerify ISSN ↗0976-5018Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$800 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology (medical) | 194 / 278 | 30th | Q3 |
| Pharmacology | 247 / 328 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics is Q3 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 194 of 278) and Q4 in Pharmacology (rank 247 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 30th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.274, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 48.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$800 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 Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics is published by Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0976-500X and its online ISSN is 0976-5018.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 3.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 271 Scopus journals in Pharmacology (medical).
Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 69. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (55.3%), Saudi Arabia (16.2%) and Malaysia (5.8%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.1 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.
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