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Patient Preference and Adherence is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Dove Medical Press Ltd.
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ISSN 1177-889XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Dove Medical Press Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 137 / 744 | 81st | Q1 |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous) | 13 / 57 | 78th | Q1 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 154 / 466 | 67th | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 117 / 330 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Patient Preference and Adherence is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 137 of 744), Q1 in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous) (rank 13 of 57) and Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 154 of 466), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Patient Preference and Adherence 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 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.690, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 80.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,836 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.
Patient Preference and Adherence is published by Dove Medical Press Ltd. Its ISSN is 1177-889X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Patient Preference and Adherence has an h-index of 94 and a 2-year mean of 2.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #83 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Patient Preference and Adherence published 328 papers in 2025. 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 (60.9%), Saudi Arabia (4.2%) and United States (3.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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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