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Trends in Pharmacological Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 32.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0165-6147Verify ISSN ↗1873-3735Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$7,030 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toxicology | 1 / 131 | 99th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology | 2 / 328 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 32.4.
Trends in Pharmacological Sciences is Q1 in Toxicology (rank 1 of 131) and Q1 in Pharmacology (rank 2 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Trends in Pharmacological Sciences is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 32.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.447, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 261.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$7,030 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.
Trends in Pharmacological Sciences is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0165-6147 and its online ISSN is 1873-3735.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Trends in Pharmacological Sciences has an h-index of 321 and a 2-year mean of 10.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 32.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 128 Scopus journals in Toxicology.
Trends in Pharmacological Sciences published 152 papers in 2025. 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 86 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (30.1%), United States (29.4%) and South Korea (8.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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