Current Drug Targets

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

Papers in Current Drug Targets are cited about 3.5 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q2, with an h-index of 138. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Scimago places Current Drug Targets in Q2 for its subject category. Quartiles split the journals in a field into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Current Drug Targets is cited about 3.5 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 138. A journal is ranked per subject category, so one spanning several fields can sit in different quartiles depending on the category.

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Current Drug Targets. The open equivalent is its Scimago quartile, Q2, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

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