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Pharmacological Research - Modern Chinese Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2667-1425Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all) | 13 / 79 | 84th | Q1 |
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 21 / 115 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 76 / 278 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Pharmacological Research - Modern Chinese Medicine is Q1 in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all) (rank 13 of 79), Q1 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 21 of 115) and Q2 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 76 of 278), by CiteScore 2025.
Pharmacological Research - Modern Chinese Medicine 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 5.7, quartile Q1, 84th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.563, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,550 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.
Pharmacological Research - Modern Chinese Medicine is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2667-1425.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Pharmacological Research - Modern Chinese Medicine has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 3.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 77 Scopus journals in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all).
Pharmacological Research - Modern Chinese Medicine published 166 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 211. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (40.8%), India (34.5%) and Indonesia (5.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 9 retracted papers are recorded (10.9 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.
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