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Progress in Medicinal Chemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.3). Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0079-6468Verify ISSN ↗1875-7863Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology | 97 / 328 | 70th | Q2 |
| Molecular Medicine | 76 / 179 | 57th | 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 1985–2025 (also 1973–1983, 1969–1971, 1967, 1965, 1961–1963), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.3.
Progress in Medicinal Chemistry is Q2 in Pharmacology (rank 97 of 328) and Q2 in Molecular Medicine (rank 76 of 179), by CiteScore 2025.
Progress in Medicinal Chemistry 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 6.3, quartile Q2, 70th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.205, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 40.
Progress in Medicinal Chemistry is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0079-6468 and its online ISSN is 1875-7863.
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.
Progress in Medicinal Chemistry has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 1.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #219 of 319 Scopus journals in Pharmacology.
Progress in Medicinal Chemistry published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 11. 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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