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Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer New York.
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ISSN 0091-150XVerify ISSN ↗1573-9031Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology | 251 / 328 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Drug Discovery | 137 / 161 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1967–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.6.
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal is Q4 in Pharmacology (rank 251 of 328) and Q4 in Drug Discovery (rank 137 of 161), by CiteScore 2025.
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 23rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.211, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 44.
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 0091-150X and its online ISSN is 1573-9031.
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.
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 1.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #223 of 319 Scopus journals in Pharmacology.
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal published 197 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 260. 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 87 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (55.2%), India (10.9%) and Türkiye (6.9%). 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 (0.3 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.
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