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Medicinal Chemistry Reviews is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5). Published by American Chemical Society.
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ISSN 2575-9175Verify ISSN ↗2575-9183Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical Science | 162 / 191 | 15th | Q4 |
| Drug Guides | 9 / 10 | 15th | Q4 |
| Chemistry (miscellaneous) | 130 / 137 | 5th | Q4 |
| Drug Discovery | 154 / 161 | 4th | Q4 |
| Biochemistry | 436 / 448 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Medicinal Chemistry Reviews is Q4 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 162 of 191), Q4 in Drug Guides (rank 9 of 10) and Q4 in Chemistry (miscellaneous) (rank 130 of 137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Medicinal Chemistry Reviews is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4, 15th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Medicinal Chemistry Reviews is published by American Chemical Society. Its print ISSN is 2575-9175 and its online ISSN is 2575-9183.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Medicinal Chemistry Reviews has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #144 of 177 Scopus journals in Pharmaceutical Science.
Medicinal Chemistry Reviews published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 30. 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.
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