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Medicinal Chemistry Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 1054-2523Verify ISSN ↗1554-8120Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all) | 15 / 79 | 81st | Q1 |
| Organic Chemistry | 80 / 215 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1994), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Medicinal Chemistry Research is Q1 in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all) (rank 15 of 79) and Q2 in Organic Chemistry (rank 80 of 215), by CiteScore 2025.
Medicinal Chemistry Research 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.501, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 69.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,990 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.
Medicinal Chemistry Research is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1054-2523 and its online ISSN is 1554-8120.
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.
Medicinal Chemistry Research has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 3.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 77 Scopus journals in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all).
Medicinal Chemistry Research published 153 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 353. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (23.4%), United States (20.1%) and India (12%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (1.5 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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