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Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients and Related Methodology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.7). Published by Academic Press Inc..
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ISSN 1871-5125Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology | 84 / 328 | 74th | Q2 |
| Pharmaceutical Science | 50 / 191 | 74th | Q2 |
| Molecular Medicine | 68 / 179 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present (also 2005, 2001–2003), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.7.
Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients and Related Methodology is Q2 in Pharmacology (rank 84 of 328), Q2 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 50 of 191) and Q2 in Molecular Medicine (rank 68 of 179), by CiteScore 2025.
Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients and Related Methodology 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 6.7, quartile Q2, 74th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients and Related Methodology is published by Academic Press Inc. Its ISSN is 1871-5125.
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.
Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients and Related Methodology has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #267 of 319 Scopus journals in Pharmacology.
Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients and Related Methodology published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 20. 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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