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Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), WoS SCIE. Published by Medical Letter Inc..
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ISSN 0025-732XVerify ISSN ↗1523-2859Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Medical Letter Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology (medical) | 221 / 278 | 20th | Q4 |
| Pharmacology | 270 / 328 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics is Q4 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 221 of 278) and Q4 in Pharmacology (rank 270 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics 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 1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 20th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.257, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics is published by Medical Letter Inc. Its print ISSN is 0025-732X and its online ISSN is 1523-2859.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #223 of 271 Scopus journals in Pharmacology (medical).
Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics published 137 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 146. 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.
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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