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Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

John Wiley and Sons Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1909

ISSN1099-1557

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

1.041

H-Indexi

133

SNIPi

0.976

Total Worksi

6,060

Total Citationsi

135,568

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.61

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Pharmacology & Pharmacy; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Pharmacology (medical); Epidemiology.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1909

FrequencyTwelve No. A Year, 2004-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications6,060

Publisher OrgWiley

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1099-1557

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

265

4.3k

2019

269

3.7k

2020

287

2.5k

2021

200

2.1k

2022

187

1.1k

2023

216

838

2024

245

496

2025

180

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Pharmacology (medical)Q1

EpidemiologyQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Pharmacology & PharmacyPublic, Environmental & Occupational Health

Scopus Categories

Pharmacology (medical)Epidemiology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug ReactionsPharmaceutical Practices and Patient OutcomesPharmaceutical studies and practicesMedication Adherence and ComplianceAdvanced Causal Inference TechniquesHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifePregnancy and Medication ImpactDrug-Induced Adverse ReactionsOpioid Use Disorder TreatmentStatistical Methods in Clinical Trials

Frequently asked questions about Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Is Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety?

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.61.

Is Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety?