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Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy

SAGE Publications Inc. · United Kingdom · Est. 1958

ISSN2040-2066

SJR Q4✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2024-01-10). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal is inactive. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

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

SJR Scorei

0.23

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

1,017

Total Citationsi

23,623

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.00

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Drug Discovery; Medicine (miscellaneous); Pharmacology; Virology.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary Language—

1st Year Published1958

Annual Volume~ 6 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2023)

Total Publications1,017

Publisher OrgSAGE Publishing

Visit Journal Website

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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

SAGE Publications Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2040-2066

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus, PubMed

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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?

N/A

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

297

2015

209

2017

743

2018

221

2019

271

2020

2021

2022

2023

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.

Drug DiscoveryQ4

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q4

PharmacologyQ4

VirologyQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

PharmacologyDrug DiscoveryVirologyMedicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

HIV/AIDS drug development and treatmentHIV Research and TreatmentHerpesvirus Infections and TreatmentsCytomegalovirus and herpesvirus researchBiochemical and Molecular ResearchHepatitis C virus researchHepatitis B Virus StudiesHIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsVirus-based gene therapy researchPneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment

Frequently asked questions about Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy

Is Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy a predatory journal?

Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal is inactive" (2024-01-10). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy?

Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.23.

Is Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy?