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Pharmaceuticals is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 1424-8247Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical Science | 29 / 191 | 85th | Q1 |
| Drug Discovery | 29 / 161 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Molecular Medicine | 39 / 179 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 2004), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.
Pharmaceuticals is Q1 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 29 of 191), Q1 in Drug Discovery (rank 29 of 161) and Q1 in Molecular Medicine (rank 39 of 179), by CiteScore 2025.
Pharmaceuticals 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 9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.140, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 120.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,499 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.
Pharmaceuticals is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 1424-8247.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Pharmaceuticals has an h-index of 143 and a 2-year mean of 6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 177 Scopus journals in Pharmaceutical Science.
Pharmaceuticals published 1,957 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (13.3%), South Korea (7.6%) and Romania (7.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 34 retracted papers are recorded (3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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