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Natural Product Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.8). Published by Korean Society of Pharmacognosy.
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ISSN 1226-3907Verify ISSN ↗2288-9027Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society of Pharmacognosy
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Chemistry | 176 / 215 | 18th | Q4 |
| Drug Discovery | 132 / 161 | 18th | 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 1997–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.8.
Natural Product Sciences is Q4 in Organic Chemistry (rank 176 of 215) and Q4 in Drug Discovery (rank 132 of 161), by CiteScore 2025.
Natural Product Sciences 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 1.8, quartile Q4, 18th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.234, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 34.
Natural Product Sciences is published by Korean Society of Pharmacognosy. Its print ISSN is 1226-3907 and its online ISSN is 2288-9027.
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.
Natural Product Sciences has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #133 of 210 Scopus journals in Organic Chemistry.
Natural Product Sciences published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 50. 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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