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Pharmaceutical Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Pharmaceutical Press.
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ISSN 0031-6873Verify ISSN ↗2053-6186Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacy | 47 / 52 | 10th | Q4 |
| Pharmaceutical Science | 173 / 191 | 9th | Q4 |
| Pharmacology | 310 / 328 | 5th | 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 2014–2025 (also 1994–2012, 1945–1949), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Pharmaceutical Journal is Q4 in Pharmacy (rank 47 of 52), Q4 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 173 of 191) and Q4 in Pharmacology (rank 310 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Pharmaceutical Journal 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 10th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.124, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 30.
Pharmaceutical Journal is published by Pharmaceutical Press. Its print ISSN is 0031-6873 and its online ISSN is 2053-6186.
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.
Pharmaceutical Journal has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #41 of 50 Scopus journals in Pharmacy.
Pharmaceutical Journal published 929 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,599. 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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