Current Drug Safety

ISSN 1574-8863 · Bentham Science Publishers · United Arab Emirates · active 1969–2026

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Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q3
Cites per paper (2y)
1.3
SJR
0.285
h-index
51

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Indexing & access

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Scope

pharmacovigilanceadversedrugreactionstoxicologydrug-inducedpharmacologypharmaceuticalpracticespatientoutcomesgeriatrics

Frequently asked

Is Current Drug Safety a predatory journal?

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Is Current Drug Safety indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Current Drug Safety appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is Current Drug Safety's impact?

Papers in Current Drug Safety are cited about 1.3 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q3, with an h-index of 51. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Is Current Drug Safety open access?

We hold no reliable open-access classification for Current Drug Safety. Check the journal's own site for its access model and any article processing charge.

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