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Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters

Elsevier Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1863

ISSN1464-3405

SJR Q2✓ 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 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.426

H-Indexi

179

SNIPi

0.599

Total Worksi

32,672

Total Citationsi

805,735

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.72

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Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters publishes reports of research on the molecular structure of biological organisms and the interaction of biological targets with chemical agents. The journal aims to promote a better understanding at the molecular level of life processes, living organisms, and their interaction with chemical agents.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1863

FrequencySemimonthly, 1994-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications32,672

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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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

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Elsevier Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1464-3405

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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

719

12k

2019

722

9.9k

2020

624

6.7k

2021

463

3.8k

2022

357

1.7k

2023

395

1.5k

2024

363

568

2025

194

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.

Pharmaceutical ScienceQ2

BiochemistryQ3

Clinical BiochemistryQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Chemistry, MedicinalChemistry, Organic

Scopus Categories

Drug DiscoveryBiochemistryClinical BiochemistryOrganic ChemistryPharmaceutical ScienceMolecular MedicineMolecular Biology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

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Frequently asked questions about Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters

Is Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters: 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 Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters?

Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 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 1.72.

Is Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.