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Current Drug Therapy

Bentham Science Publishers · United Arab Emirates · Est. 1969

ISSN1574-8855eISSN2212-3903

SJR Q3✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.203

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.199

Total Worksi

871

Total Citationsi

3,703

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.47

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Pharmacology & Pharmacy; Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous); Pharmacology (medical).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Arab Emirates

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1969

Annual Volume~ 91 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications871

Publisher OrgBentham Science Publishers

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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?

Bentham Science Publishers

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1574-8855 / 2212-3903

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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

296

2019

120

2020

2021

101

2022

279

2023

127

150

2024

2025

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, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous)Q3

Pharmacology (medical)Q4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Pharmacology & Pharmacy

Scopus Categories

Pharmacology (medical)Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Advanced Drug Delivery SystemsDrug Solubulity and Delivery SystemsAdvancements in Transdermal Drug DeliveryComputational Drug Discovery MethodsNanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryNatural Antidiabetic Agents StudiesDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesSynthesis and biological activityCholinesterase and Neurodegenerative DiseasesInhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery

Frequently asked questions about Current Drug Therapy

Is Current Drug Therapy a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Current Drug Therapy: 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 Current Drug Therapy?

Current Drug Therapy 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 0.47.

Is Current Drug Therapy indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Current Drug Therapy is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Current Drug Therapy?