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Research Journal of Pharmacognosy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Iranian Society of Pharmacognosy.
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ISSN 2345-4458Verify ISSN ↗2345-5977Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Iranian Society of Pharmacognosy
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 66 / 115 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Drug Discovery | 130 / 161 | 19th | Q4 |
| Organic Chemistry | 174 / 215 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Research Journal of Pharmacognosy is Q3 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 66 of 115), Q4 in Drug Discovery (rank 130 of 161) and Q4 in Organic Chemistry (rank 174 of 215), by CiteScore 2025.
Research Journal of Pharmacognosy is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.238, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Research Journal of Pharmacognosy is published by Iranian Society of Pharmacognosy. Its print ISSN is 2345-4458 and its online ISSN is 2345-5977.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Research Journal of Pharmacognosy has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #97 of 109 Scopus journals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Research Journal of Pharmacognosy published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 14. 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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