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Side Effects of Drugs Annual is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3). Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0378-6080Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drug Guides | 2 / 10 | 85th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 205 / 278 | 26th | Q3 |
| Pharmacology | 257 / 328 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–2025 (also 2007–2012, 1997–2005, 1977–1995), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Side Effects of Drugs Annual is Q1 in Drug Guides (rank 2 of 10), Q3 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 205 of 278) and Q4 in Pharmacology (rank 257 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Side Effects of Drugs Annual 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 1.3, quartile Q1, 85th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.103, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Side Effects of Drugs Annual is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 0378-6080.
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.
Side Effects of Drugs Annual has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #230 of 271 Scopus journals in Pharmacology (medical).
Side Effects of Drugs Annual published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 60. 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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