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Natural Product Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 1555-9475Verify ISSN ↗1934-578XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 50 / 115 | 56th | Q2 |
| Plant Science | 252 / 541 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Pharmacology | 226 / 328 | 31st | Q3 |
| Drug Discovery | 119 / 161 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Natural Product Communications is Q2 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 50 of 115), Q2 in Plant Science (rank 252 of 541) and Q3 in Pharmacology (rank 226 of 328), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Natural Product Communications 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.326, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 75.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,650 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.
Natural Product Communications is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 1555-9475 and its online ISSN is 1934-578X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Natural Product Communications has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 1.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #36 of 109 Scopus journals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Natural Product Communications published 336 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 467. 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 (38.9%), Ethiopia (5.7%) and Türkiye (4.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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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